How often does this happen that a pet is left behind at an old address, and finds its way back home against amazing odds?
Not just dogs, but I’ve heard of cats, birds(but no fish).
I just know we had a thread about this in the last two months, but I can’t find it in the archives.
Here it is Lassie come home
Thanks, Chief. Why couldn’t I find that? By the way, I like your sig line. Have you been reading Gödel, Escher, Bach?
Thought this was going to be a be about todays comics. Nevermind…
Of all the pets that get left behind when their owners move, less than one percent find their families again (and I’m being generous in that estimate).
Pets that get left behind and don’t find their families again don’t make the papers:
“Dog, abandoned, still abandoned”
You only read about the ones that do.
I thought this thread was going to be about the movie *Snoopy Come Home[\i]. That movie still brings a tear to my eyes when I see it.
That would make a pretty good Onion headline, though.
“Sister sings ‘You Are My Sunshine’ to Dying Younger Brother, Who Then Dies”
“Mother Sees Tree Fall on Child, Attempts to Pick It Up But Is Unable”
“Man Has Premonition That Plane Will Crash, Lands Safely”
DHR
I doubt the animal left at the OLD address could find the NEW address, one they’ve never been to… but some could probably find the OLD address from (wherever).
When I moved from Tucson to Phoenix at age 18, one of my cats jumped out of the window of my boyfriend’s car at an intersection (still in Tucson) and ran away. We spent an hour looking for him but eventually gave up. About a week later he showed up, obviously having been in at least one fight, at my mom’s house. We drove down and got him that night 
OK, Ope.
If they go back to the old address, the people who would recognize the cat, dog or what ever are long gone.
The headline would read “Moochy Cat Moves In” not “Long Lost Pusser Returns!”
Of course the ones that do make the paper do so because Mrs. Kravitz from across the street recognizes the cat. I’d still call it an extremely small minority.
The following was reported in the Newcastle Journal, The Daily Telegraph, and the Manchester Evening News and is quoted from the current issue of the Fortean Times:
“A pining sheepdog tracked down his master’s grave, even though he had never been there before. Border collie Spot escaped from the home of his new owners at Higher Hurdsfield, Macclesfield, Cheshire, on Christmas Eve, and walked four miles (6.4km)on busy main roads on his pilgrimage to find the grave of Denis Goodier, who had died the previous July, aged 73. The pair had been inseparable since Mr. Goodier raised Spot from a pup on his dairy farm. Spot was found by a policeman lying on the grave in St. James churchyard in Sutton, and was returned to Brian Belfield,58,…Mr. Goodier’s widow Margaret said Spot had not been to the grave before as she had given him away almost immediately after her husband’s death, which followed a long illness.”
Not a long haul for Spot, but still very curious indeed!