Overboard dog comes home after 4 months on island
SYDNEY -- A pet dog swept off a sailboat in choppy seas off Australia was found alive four months later on a remote island - and returned to her family, who'd thought she was dead. The 4-year-old blue heeler, named Sophie Tucker, was captured by rangers last week on St. Bees Island in northern Queensland state, nearly 6 miles from where she was washed off the sailboat in November, owner Jan Griffith said.
Rangers initially thought they'd captured a wild dog, but friends who heard about the canine contacted Griffith and suggested it might be Sophie.
Last Tuesday, Griffith and her husband met the rangers' boat as it arrived back on the mainland and were shocked to find their long-lost pet 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 Monday's Daily Mercury newspaper. "She wriggled around like a mad thing."
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SYDNEY -- A pet dog swept off a sailboat in choppy seas off Australia was found alive four months later on a remote island - and returned to her family, who'd thought she was dead. The 4-year-old blue heeler, named Sophie Tucker, was captured by rangers last week on St. Bees Island in northern Queensland state, nearly 6 miles from where she was washed off the sailboat in November, owner Jan Griffith said.
Rangers initially thought they'd captured a wild dog, but friends who heard about the canine contacted Griffith and suggested it might be Sophie.
Last Tuesday, Griffith and her husband met the rangers' boat as it arrived back on the mainland and were shocked to find their long-lost pet 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 Monday's Daily Mercury newspaper. "She wriggled around like a mad thing."
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