{"id":168440,"date":"2025-04-02T15:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/valerie-the-daring-dachshund-and-how-dogs-survive-when-lost\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:16:02","slug":"valerie-the-daring-dachshund-and-how-dogs-survive-when-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=168440","title":{"rendered":"Valerie the Daring Dachshund and How Dogs Survive When Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"


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My latest post at Psychology Today<\/i> looks at the story of a valiant dog who is missing on an Australian island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Photo: Vlad Kutepov\/Pexels<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

By Zazie Todd, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n

News that a 4kg miniature Dachshund is still alive after going missing on Kangaroo Island, Australia<\/a>,
\n more than a year ago, set me thinking about how dogs can survive
\nwithout people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Valerie, the miniature Dachshund, was recently sighted
\n16 months after she first went missing, and now a local rescue has set
\ncameras and traps to catch her. It\u2019s not known how Valerie has survived
\nthis long and whether local people have helped her\u2014although, given that
\nshe is wearing a pink collar, you would think that anyone who saw her
\nwould mention it, just like the person who spotted her and told the
\nrescue. So it seems most likely that she has survived on her own.<\/p>\n

Read more on my Fellow Creatures<\/i> blog: Valerie the daring Dachshund and how dogs survive when lost<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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