Eddie gets lost in the fog!

Eddie has always been a highly functional sheepdog, he’s good at working in the sheep pens, rounding up big flocks and he works very hard. But there are some things that Eddie is not so good at, like remembering his left and right!

But this week Eddie had a problem of a completely unexpected sort. on Tuesday morning we had set off to check on the sheep on a hilly bit of ground in Mortehoe. It had been foggy for most of the morning, and as I drove up the hill on the quad bike the fog got thicker, and I had only gone a few hundred yards when I noticed that Eddie had gone missing! I didn’t  think much of it, as even in thick fog a sheepdog should easily be able to find his way back to the starting point (in this case the land-rover) So when I returned to the land rover ten minutes later and found he wasn’t there, I was a little surprised. I retraced the route that I had taken, but still no Eddie, so after a bit of calling and whistling I decided that I’d better check that he hadn’t tried to walk the mile and a half back along the road to the farm.

But there was no sign of him on the road and when I returned  to Mortehoe fifteen minutes later, I was beginning to get a little worried. Just then Heidi from the village came running over ” have you lost a dog?” Somewhat relieved I said that I had, and was told the story of Eddie’s morning wander. Once lost in the fog, he must have wandered back to the land rover, but instead of waiting there he jumped the gate into the car park. Then smelling the morning bake of croissants in the village shop decided to pay a visit. Once inside Mel, the shop owner thought that she recognized him as another dog in the village. so put a lead on him and shut him in the stairwell of the next door flat. However, once Mel had locked him in, Eddie spotted an open window on the first floor landing and jumped through it, landing on the flat roof of the kitchen next door! Here he was completely marooned until another neighbor was summoned to rescue him with a ladder. The rescue which was just in progress when I arrived.

He didn’t seem at all embarrassed at being passed back through the  window into my arms, I put him on a lead and he walked, presumably putting it down to ‘just one of those things that happens when you are an Eddie!’

Thank you to Mel at Mortehoe Village stores and to Heidi at Town farm house b&b for their help in the rescue of Eddie