Happy ending for a stray

So the stray cattle dog named Tasha (see previous 2 journals) went home today just before noon.
As the owner approached her she was as skittish as ever, but then she began to stare, and came up to the door of the kennel. He opened the kennel and sat down and the dog crawled over and put her head in his lap.

By the time they left she was calmly standing up on him seeking attention, her tail went from tucked to relaxed, and she jumped right into the car as if she had done so only yesterday.


After 2 years of being missing, likely running feral, she remembered him.



A phone call hours later brought more good news.

His wife cried upon seeing the dog, so grateful to have her back.
Their toy poodle, whom Tasha grew up with, at first did not seem to know her but then it's tail began to wag and the little dog got all happy... the poodle remembered her!
Their new dog, a cattle dog mix they rescued long after Tasha went missing, seems to be doing well, not exactly friends but not enemies, which in past experience means they will get along if not be playmates.

Turns out what happened is the door rattles in the wind and on one very windy day it rattled to the point of coming unlatched, both dogs escaped without their humans knowing, they found the poodle but not Tasha.

So in the end all is well.
Considering how she flinched every time we touched her and looked at us all wary-eyed it was extra heartwarming to see Tasha warm up to her owner and seek his affection. <3