Washington family celebrate the triumphant return of their australian shepherd who was lost in New Mexico for 6 months, surviving the winter and several trapping attempts: ‘I'd just about lost hope of ever seeing Brancy again, and now he's coming home!’

Bringing a dog into your life is quite the undertaking there is no denying that. Whether you think of the training, attention, financial investment and above all else the responsibility that you take upon yourself, there is a lot going on. And you hope, that for the most part you will not have to face too many of these potential hurdles in your pupper's lifespan, but you go into the relationship knowing that like with anything in life, you never quite know how things will shake out in the end.

And much to the disappointment of one washington family, they felt the strain of their responsibility over their doggo when it went missing in a whole other state for six long months. A period that must have felt like a lifetime for them. Every day and night waiting, worrying and wondering what could have happened to their pawdorable pupper, where he might be and how he might be doing. So you can probably imagine their elation the moment that they discovered their fur baby was alive and well and had finally been caught after several failed attempts. Bringing their harrowing half a year ordeal to a comforting close.

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A gentle reminder that there is no pawfect way to get a pupper. Even when you go to a breeder you never quite know what you are going to get and under what circumstances a dog has been raised. Of course Brancy’s conditions were not all that bad, but if even one of these breeders had been less than decent to this poor pupper who knows what kind of behavioral issues he could have picked up along the way.
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This is what we like to see, the hard work that caring hoomans put in to their puppers to make them feel as welcome and wanted as possible. After all the decades and generations that doggos have been used for their working abilities they are more than deserving of a few generations of love and tender care. Especially when they have had a bit of a tough childhood. Though, as we all know, even when things are at their best, the worst can still happen…
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