The Incredible Journey.

It's been a couple of weeks of lost dogs in our family.  Big Brother Gerald had his two run off during a thunderstorm, and Baby Jane had her pig dog fall off the back of the truck while driving in the Oz Outback.

Frantic couple of weeks for both, driving around searching.

However, Gerald wrote over a week back to say a vintner rang to say he'd found two dogs in his vineyard, one with a broken leg and the other refusing to leave its side and clearly looking after it.

And now Baby Jane writes about her missing dog:

"We spent two days looking for Ruby last week and also had an unsuccessful search over the weekend looking for what I thought would be a mauled, crow-eaten body … but when we got back into phone coverage on Sunday afternoon we heard that a man had spotted her 50km away on the highway between Mt Surprise and George Town so we trekked all the way to George Town with no joy. Got home at midnight last night and rang the guy this morning who said she was last seen heading north back into bushland.

Peter reckoned she was going back to the beginning and so she did!  She made it through the cattle stations 10 80 baits and packs of dingos … between 60-100 km total walking and turned up at dawn right where we camped ... She is now tied up at the Mt Surprise Camping Ground waiting to be picked up … Peter and Thomas have just left for the 5 hour journey this morning to pick her up.

I am so amazed with this beautiful, clever dog. She was gone one week."

And it made the papers too:

So that's all Murphy family dogs  accounted for.  I guess our stars must have configured themselves in "the amazing lost dogs re-discovery" alignment.