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Miniature dachshund found after 529 days in the wild on Kangaroo Island
- Valerie, a one-year-old miniature dachshund, was safely rescued on Kangaroo Island after roaming wild for 529 days following her November 2023 escape.
- During a camping trip on an island off South Australia, Valerie escaped from her owners' campsite and disappeared into the surrounding wilderness.
- The search, led by Kangala Wildlife Rescue volunteers and islanders Jared and Lisa Karran, involved more than 1,000 hours and 5,000 kilometres of effort using cameras, traps, and scent trails.
- Kangala Wildlife Rescue expressed great joy and relief upon Valerie’s safe recovery, mentioning that the team used her favorite toy along with a scented T-shirt as bait to successfully lure her in.
- Valerie is now decompressing and will return to her owners for a calmer life after surviving by relying on her speed, intelligence, and local water sources amidst varied wildlife on the large island.
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In the world of animal rescues, few stories are as extraordinary as that of Valerie, a little sausage dog who has accomplished something that seems to have come out of an adventure novel: surviving alone for 529 days on a remote island of Australia. According to AFP, Valerie, a miniature sausage dog, disappeared in November 2023 while enjoying a trip with its owners, Georgia Gardner and his partner Josh Fishlock.
Missing since November 2023, Valerie survived a year and a half alone in the jungle of Kangaroo Island, Australia. The sweater with the owner's scent was essential to the rescue of the sausage dog.
The owners of Valerie, a female dachshund who went missing while camping on Kangaroo Island in South Australia in November 2023, are overjoyed. Rescuers found her alive and well on Friday, April 25, 17 months later, Reuters reported. The key to her success was her owner's smelly T-shirt.
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