Leon saves the day

Saturday was a nightmare. Paul went to oxford to pick up a rescue Malinois, bitch. She was a little nervous but otherwise settled in quite nicely. She took an immediate liking to Leon, as you can see on the video, I thought they were doing a bit of tap dancing. All was going so well I decided to take Lotty (as she is known) for a walk over the fields ( on the lead of course) with a couple of the other dogs to help her settle some more. Not the best decision I have ever made, as we stepped out of the gate, the collar broke (you would think I learned my lesson after the episode in France with Gaby).Any way off she went, flat out, within seconds she had disappeared, great start to my job in rescue. We searched every where but having fields every where she could have been anywhere. Around 8 0'clock on the evening I spotted her run across the field, at least we knew she was still around which gave us some hope, however she disappeared almost immediately again,and boy did she pick a good night to run off, the hotel up the road decided to have a disco outside with fireworks, then the helicopters from the airport were out in force and to top that off the neighbours over the road decided to have a firework party as well. Go live in the country for some piece and quite, you must be joking. Around 12 am we decided to check out the front of the house, no luck then as we came back in we saw her in the neighbours drive, we were so close, but no, she took one look at us and of she trotted up the road, luckily we do not have much traffic at night but by the time we got in the car she was gone again. By 2 am we decided There was nothing more we could do but leave some food out back for her and hope she would stay close for the night.

7 am next morning we looked out the window and saw her, knowing she would run off again if we tried to get close, we decided as she had taken a shine to Leon we would let him out into the fields and see if she remembered him, it worked like a treat, their eyes met across the horizon and it must be love, they played together like pups for about twenty minutes then he came trotting back with her.

She has now settled in wonderfully and is a very sweet, loving dog, no aggression just a little nervous at times. She will make someone a fantastic companion, as long as they do not go walking with her on the first day and make sure the collar is strong!