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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2009040...90406082210;_ylt=ArxWlNqAV9YUgYYUAM3xVboazJV4

SYDNEY (AFP) – A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.

Sophie Tucker, apparently named after a late US entertainer, fell overboard as Jan Griffith and her family sailed through choppy waters off the northeast Queensland coast in November.

The dog was believed to have drowned and Griffith said the family was devastated.

But out of sight of the family, Sophie Tucker was swimming doggedly and finally made it to St Bees Island, five nautical miles away, and began the sort of life popularised by the TV reality show "Survivor."

She was returned to her family last week when Griffith contacted rangers who had captured a dog that had been living off feral goats on the largely uninhabited island, in the faint hope it might be their long-lost pet.

When the Griffiths met the rangers' boat bringing the dog to the mainland they found that it was indeed Sophie Tucker on board.

"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told the national AAP news agency.

"She wriggled around like a mad thing."

Griffith said that when the dog was first spotted on the island she had been in poor condition.

"And then all of a sudden she started to look good and it was when the rangers had found baby goat carcasses so she'd started eating baby goats," she said.

Sophie Tucker, a member of the Australian cattle dog breed, had been quick to readjust to the comforts of home, complete with airconditioning, Griffiths said.

"She surprised us all. She was a house dog and look what she's done, she's swum over five nautical miles, she's managed to live off the land all on her own," Griffiths said.

"We wish she could talk, we truly do."

If only that dog could talk.

 

[Aegus]

That dog will be wanting to go back soon enough.

 

[Bit-Bit]

It would probably say. "Thanks for lookin for me, bitches."

 

[Great King Bowser]

That's awesome.

 

[Keylime]

"I did things no dog should. They will haunt me forever. "

 

[fatigues_gasolini]

Dog will be fine until he gets called back to the island.

 

[Vinci]

"I did things no dog should. They will haunt me forever. "

:lol

 

[jasonng]

Wasn't expecting Lost references on this thread. Color me surprised, GAF. Anyways, great story. I'm a bit shocked that the family didn't even attempt to look for their pet.

 

[smurfx]

it's nice that the dog got reunited with it's owners but the poor little goats had to suffer because of it.

 

[Price Dalton]

That dog will be wanting to go back soon enough.

Yep. Kibble just isn't gonna cut it anymore.

 

[Kade]

I won't be surprised if the dog starts eating the family.

 

[Barrett2]

Does the dog have a long beard now?

 

[lil smoke]

Does no one care about those poor baby goats? What went through their minds as that hungry dog knaws on their tender necks.

 

[daw840]

WILSON!!

 

[Burai]

Wasn't expecting Lost references on this thread. Color me surprised, GAF. Anyways, great story. I'm a bit shocked that the family didn't even attempt to look for their pet.

Where would you look? She swam for over five miles to that island. That's an insane distance, especially for a dog.

 

[smurfx]

Does no one care about those poor baby goats? What went through their minds as that hungry dog knaws on their tender necks.

yeah poor little goats thought they had it made being on an island with no hunters around and then comes this evil dog and fucks everything up for them. :lol

 

[Particle Physicist]

link?

it should be a bannable offense to post articles without their corresponding links

>(

 

[Tideas]

oops. heh

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2009040...90406082210;_ylt=ArxWlNqAV9YUgYYUAM3xVboazJV4

 

[akachan ningen]

Does no one care about those poor baby goats? What went through their minds as that hungry dog knaws on their tender necks.

yum

 

[krypt0nian]

Good dog!

Welcome home!

 

[DarienA]

I won't be surprised if the dog starts eating the family.

Yup... he's got a taste for flesh now.... don't leave him around any babies!

 

[Forceatowulf]

Makes me hopeful that Snitter and Rowf

Spoiler

made it to the Island at the end

of Plague Dogs. Movie ain't so sad anymore.

 

[zombieshavebrains]

For some reason i read "feral ghosts".

 

[Particle Physicist]

oops. heh

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2009040...90406082210;_ylt=ArxWlNqAV9YUgYYUAM3xVboazJV4

thank you.


i wanted to see a picture of the dog. :lol

 

[Metroid Killer]

thank you.


i wanted to see a picture of the dog. :lol

It sure got the looks of a feral goat eating dog

 

[YYZ]

If only that dog could talk.

Looks like a job for Dreamworks.

 

[AbortedWalrusFetus]

People are upset that the dog killed goats for food? Seriously?

Sometimes I think there are people in this world who will not be satisfied until killing for any reason does not happen.

 

[twinturbo2]

WILSON!!

My name is Voit, dumbass!

 

[Tideas]

People are upset that the dog killed goats for food? Seriously?

Sometimes I think there are people in this world who will not be satisfied until killing for any reason does not happen.

People are upset that people make jokes about dogs kill goats for food?
Seriously?

Sometimes I think there are people in this world who will not be satisfied until joking for any reason does not happen.

 

[bluemax]

Australian Cattle Dogs are pretty damn awesome.

I had one for years and he was a really great dog (passed away a couple years ago).

My parents now have a really crazy red one.