TOD:
The place where I edited our gardening show was a little cottage in the woods, behind a large house where the producer lived. It was quiet and peaceful until someone built an enormous (4 or 5 story) house behind the cottage. Then the family, with the college-aged son moved in. He used to invite his friends over and they liked to shoot bottle rockets at the cottage.
The producer's dog was afraid of loud noises---thunder, firecrackers, etc. so one day, after a large volley of firecrackers, Deion the pitbull was so frightened he took off and kept running and got totally lost.
We looked for him all week---drove around calling for him, put up flyers, talked to neighbors, but he had just vanished!
The following week we got a phone call from some people who had found him. He was over a mile from the house, lost and scared, and they picked him up in their car. (They didn't live in the neighborhood but were passing through.) They were leaving that day for vacation and didn't know how to find his owner, so they took him on vacation with them and their other dog. So while we were frantically looking for him, Deion was in the mountains hiking, eating chicken Mcnuggets and enjoying his vacation!
When they returned from their trip they drove through the area where they found him and saw our flyers. They called and arranged to drop him off. They wanted to wait until evenig so the husband could say goodbye to him. (If they hadn't found his owner they planned to keep him.) The husband actually cried when he had to leave Deion so we told him he could have "visitation rights" whenever he wanted.
So there's a GOOD pitbull story for you!
