I have a dog called Bobo who is very energetic but sometimes annoying. She has brought stress and fun into our lives since the day we got her which was a few years ago. She was a street dog who was rescued from the streets of Mexico. She is a pure black, slender, medium sized dog with pointy ears. She looks a lot like a Formosan Mountain Dog, but we decided to do a DNA test on her since we were curious, and the results were mainly a mix of Doberman, German Shepard, and Pitbull. Anyhow, I am going to write about one of her many adventures. My mum and I were finishing a camping trip a couple summers ago and we decided to spend the last couple hours at the top of a mountain somewhere in BC (on the mainland) to have late breakfast and a hike. Later that day we were catching the ferry back to Victoria. We were preparing breakfast and had tied Bobo to a nearby tree a couple metres away. I was surprised she was so well behaved and went over to give her a carrot (which she loves). She was gone. I picked up the end of the lead and dangling from it was her harness. But no dog. She had obviously managed to get out and was now somewhere in the wilderness in this deserted place with nothing on her with bears and squirrels around. You may be wondering how we will get her back. We know she will come back because she does this sometimes when we let her off the lead, but we had a ferry to catch which was a few hours drive away. She’s a pretty smart and independent dog but her recall is horrendous when she is on the hunt. It’s as if her listening skills switch off as soon as she’s unclipped. Plus, she has the attention span of a fly. We spent the next 2 hours looking for her and pacing about. We couldn’t go far because we knew she would come back to the last spot her saw us. Eventually, I saw her racing towards me (she was not paying any interest to me though) and my mum was nowhere to be seen. Her eyes fixed on another ground squirrel. This was my only chance of getting her as my patience was wearing off. Just as she was sprinting past me, I leaped forwards landing on her and we both fell to the ground. Don’t worry, she’s a strong dog and was completely fine. After that we leashed her up and drove to the ferry. Something over-the-top like this (not always an off-lead scenario) seems to happen almost every week but this was the most memorable one for me I think.