Extremely Good Dog Reunited With QLD Owners After 4 Years In The Wild

My childhood dog was a useless piece of shit. Don’t get me wrong, I loved him and cherished him, but he was straight up useless. He would get lost frequently, even only a few doors away from home. He needed to be picked up to get on anything higher than about ankle height. If he was in a survival situation, he would probably have been carried away by an eagle within the first six hours. 
Sammy, a Queensland labrador, is not a useless piece of shit. Sammy is, in fact, a goddamn hero dog who managed to survive nearly four years out on her own after she went missing in 2013.
Sammy went AWOL during a walk on the Sunny Coast‘s Wild Horse Mountain in October that year, with her owner, Aubrey Lee, using a Facebook group to arrange searches and to collect information about missing dogs in the area.
This beautiful angel of a dog was brought back into the fold after a woman running a missing dogs Facebook page saw reports of a “golden-coloured dog” in the area and tracked down Lee.
Because they couldn’t find a microchip, Sammy was identified by some more unorthodox methods:
“Sammy had quite a unique caesarean scar, and she also had a unique number of nipples.

“We’ve also organised DNA testing just to confirm, but at this stage it’s 99.9 per cent certain that it’s Sammy.” 
Very relatable, as I too have a unique number of nipples (I will never reveal what that number is). According to Lee, though, her behaviour was a pretty good sign:
“Deep down I thought it was her straight away, her face and eyes especially but I still had to check for the other things I’ve always looked for.

“I called her Sammy and she looked straight up and wagged her tail.

“She also buried her head straight into my mum’s legs. Same with my aunty Cheryl about an hour later, Sammy always loved her and she got straight up and was so happy to see her.”
My fucking heart.
Lauren, who runs the missing pets group, told the ABC that the Sammy was apparently in surprisingly good shape, except for a leg injury and her poor old chompers:
“It looked like an old injury that had been left untreated, it was all infected and not a pretty sight.

“She wasn’t as thin and you might expect from a dog who has been living in the wild, and her teeth are in a really bad condition.”
The vet hypothesised that her teeth were all munged up because she had been munching on a whole of pineapples:
“Her teeth have worn in a similar way to what a wild dog’s teeth would have.

“A lot of the wild dogs in that area actually live on the pineapples from the pineapple farms, and the pineapple rots their teeth.”
That’s fucking Queensland as shit.
Sammy is sporting an adorable as fuck little cast at the moment and looks to be just happy as fuck to be home:
What a beautiful creature.
Source: ABC.
Photos: Aubrey Lee.

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