A tale of woe,the moral of this story is dont leave home on a dog walk thats lonely, without your mobile.
At the furthest point from my car my dog peggy did a mad sideways flip(having fun) and I heard a crack,this is one of those heart stopping moments,she stood stock still holding her front leg out, and I just knew this was serious.She had actually manage to fracture her toe in two places,so couldn't walk.
I wasn't walking at my usual time, so not a soul about( I walk along side a golf course and the sea) so I had to try and carry her,I reached for my phone,but of course I had  left it safely at home,the one time I go out without it,I couldn't believe it.
I started to carry her a short way and then take a rest,I had my other dog with me,who started to panic as he could hear shooting across the way,normaly this upsets him a bit ,but he copes well as usually he is going away from it at a pace,but not this time,we just weren't going fast enough,so he ran back towards the car(being a saluki, not a problem going at the speed of light)
So he was my loose cannon,I had no idea if he would stop at my car,or keep running,although the entrance is in a long culdesac,and is mainly only used by dog walkers and fishermen,I couldn't be sure he would stop,or keep running onto a busier road.
So,I had to make a choice,so I put peggy down and ran after my dog dawson,leaving peg was a nightmare,I could hear her crying as I ran away,when I caught sight of daws and called he did stop(miracle) and when I finally caught up with him, he was, waiting at my car.
Running back to peg was like a scene from a film,she had managed to lose her coat,it was blowing a gale the wind took it and I gave up and just let it go.
We both staggered and I half carried/dragged her along,at last I saw a golfer,who I asked to help me and thank god he did,carrying peg back to my car,for probably the last 100 meters.
Vets ,xray sedation and splint,for about 3 weeks,peggy all ok ,thank god.
Me,pulled muscle in my leg and a limp.
So we are now, both lame,and I would of liked to have sedation aswell.
Ash x

what a nightmare!  I remember years ago an elderly lady I know was walking her elderly dog. he collapsed, dead. the dog was prob about 70lb in weight. my friend had no phone, so had to walk until she found someone to go back and carry her dog back to the car. dont know how she ever go over it.

Poor you, I rarely (only if forgotten) walk the dogs without a phone. Our younger has leg problems and very occasionaly breaks down as I call it (suddenly will go no further) this can be resolved by getting him to roll over and massaging his legs & feet & then heading home. Not so on this morning. Thankfully had my phone but still some distance from a road and also had my Aunt with me aged 97 who chose that moment to jar her knee! So with her limping along holding on to me & our other dog I carried Otto to the road. 30 kilo of dog, just made it before my legs gave way & oh my back. Hope you and Peggy are up & about soon.

Hope you and Peggy are feeling better soon. I always nag my husband about taking his mobile, I always have mine, for some reason it gives me a sense of security. A friend of our fell and broke her leg whilst out with her dog and was not discovered for several hours, she was then airlifted to hospital, her dog would never show again after that and was glued to her side.

Thanks for reminding us all of the importance of communication, hope Peggy is being a good patient and being spoilt rotten :)

Hope you are both make a speedy recovery. Happened to me many years ago when my  (just under 14 weeks old puppy) broke her leg when her Mother trod on it in an accident. I was lucky in that I had a friend with me and my car was very close. But, I had forgotten my mobile and couldn't telephone home for husbands help. Since then I have my mobile glued to me when out walking.

hi ashlee, hope you are both recovering by now from a very hard lesson--I say that in total sympathy because I was extremely lucky not come unstuck myself recently: a late walk on a Sunday in moorland/wooded valley that ordinarily wouldn't be all that remote, but on a Sunday at that time not likely to have other walkers. I'd just let my three off their leads and then slipped on stepping stones. There is no mobile reception for a good 4-5 miles in either direction, there are sheep nearby and a fairly quiet road. I just had the horrors thinking of all the things that could have gone wrong if I'd broken a leg instead of just getting badly bruised--not being able to get the dogs back, seeing the dogs run up the valley back to the road and getting either hit by a car or kidnapped, the farmer shooting the dogs, etc.

I have explained it to friends and apologised for seeming to be a bit feeble, but now if I going walking alone in that area they know I will text them before go and after I come back just in case. Hard to get used to though.

I agree I hate being without mine I too feel insecure if its not in my hand  and I am sure they have saved many a person (and dog) from more hurt.Its amazing how we all used to manage with out a phone
Hope you are both doing well now thank goodness Daws was ok back at the car what n awful walka

aaaw glad to hear she is okay

I never leave with out my phone anymore...

The 1st time we did a couple yrs back, just ran to the store to get milk and got T-boned in the parking lot and no phone to call anyone- thankfully the grocery store had a payphone...

oh yes, we are fine now, just a little chastened :). Glad you caught up with Daws, having had a saluki myself I understand your dilemma very well. What a horrible experience for you, everything seems to go into slow motion when you are desperate and at the end of your tether even when you are running a blue streak!

Our little incident certainly brought back some memories: it was about 100m from the spot where my car broke down on Christmas day 23 years ago. If it sounds weird that I remember the date so exactly, I'd gone for a brief Christmas day walk while waiting for dinner to cook and ended up with an extremely long 7 mile walk home over the hills. I was 7 months pregnant :) and after a half mile I couldn't feel anything from the neck down. Not a single car passed by and I thought I was going to give birth prematurely from stress :) :)

and just for good measure, when I finally made it back home the turkey had the texture of seasoned pine.

thankyou for your replies, just to let you know peg is now doing well after a worrying couple of days,but felt well enough yesterday to make a start at unravelling her bandages.
ash x

That's a good sign then :)

...meanwhile Peg had written a 'help me' message on her coat and sent it out to sea!!

You can expect a rescue any time in the next 20 years... :)

Hope you both feel better soon x

:) Note to self: must take my mobile, must take my mobile, must take my mobile, must take my mobile :)

Jay 15 Ditto, I had my two dogs with me and the car would not start I was about 6 months gone. It was snowing and I walked about 3 miles and got to the weepy stage when a man in a Bakers Van stopped and took me home.
I had left the dogs in the car because I had no lead's, I got told off, warmed up and Oh went to get the car with his mate and collect the dogs. I wasnt allowed out again on my own until Baby arrived (25 years ago!!). Didnt have mobiles then.

The dogs were in a piece of land we owned and we had free range chickens, as I was off work I had the job of feeding the chucks about 8 miles from home!

Blimey that bought back some memories my Mum was furious because she said anyone could see I was pregnant.

Whistler, happy days eh :D! and then we wonder why our children go through their crazy stages :) :) :)! I have to say I learnt very little from my long walk, because it was only a couple months later while I was on a long ramble up near Clapham staring down Gaping Gill that I suddenly remembered that this was the 'due date' for my first born--miles from anywhere or any help. Scuttled off home in relief that I/we were still in one piece, to coin a phrase, and thought no more about it for a few days. A few days later I decided if I didn't paint the entire bedroom that night I might not get another chance--too right. Cue moving furniture, standing on table to paint ceiling, etc etc all night. Son was born that afternoon--probably figured he couldn't take the stress anymore :)

peg...felt well enough yesterday to make a start at unravelling her bandages

Well, eating off the bandages is as good as cured :)! So glad she is getting better, and hope she keeps them on long enough to do their work, poor you for having to supervise this.

Nightmares do happen !! When (In another life) we owned GSD's we had taken them to a remote beach with cliffs to the landward side. We walked for about a mile when Tzar my biggest one rushed into the sea and suddenly screamed and sank. After going under for the 3rd time I knew something serious was wrong so I waded in up to my thighs (Bitter cold mid winter) and hauled him out and as I grabbed his under arm I felt the whole lot disintegrate in my hand. He had broken his upper arm into lots of little pieces. Luckily OH at the time was 6'6" and pretty strong but we had 8 dogs out and he had to carry him a mile back to the car. We had a trailer to carry the dogs but poor Tzar had to lie across my knees in the car with his injured leg hanging down into the footwell. Poor lad screamed with every corner.  We got him to the vet and they got an orthopaedic vet to bolt him back together. Very frightening and painfull at the time for Tzar (He recovered and lived a good while longer but walked with a very strange gait). Just as well I had OH with me as with 8 dogs and so far to go I would never have made it. And this was 24 years ago when mobiles were rare. Not that it would have helped us at the time.
Hope you both make a fast recovery. and tie your phone on like those mittens with a string round the neck!!!
Aileen

Glad she seems to be inproving what a nightmare ! I never leave without my phone as we are quite rural and sometimes never see a soul !

My God Aileen how on earth did that happen?? Blimey I'm lucky I've never had a nightmare like that happen (yet!). I generally do try to always have my mobile with me as although my dogs are small there are 3 of them and I wouldn't fancy carrying one any distance with the other 2 leaping around.

Jay15 I did all the paperhanging in the nursery and then OH pointed out cherries hung down - DOH. It had a cream carpet, white cradle and white wall paper with cherries hanging up.
Second son, my brother took me to buy our first DVD we did a job lot of three with Dad and then home in a clapped out old van. Sam arrived in 55 minutes that evening!
Ben took 24 hours and was 10lb 9oz, Sam prem at 8lb 8oz, needless to say I never got pregnant again.

Those were the days... sigh...

The only explanation we could come up with was that he got his foreleg trapped between two rocks under the water and twisted it, bang..one very broken leg...
Accidents are rare luckily but they do happen. I had a very sad call from one of my Berny puppy owners who lives in Jersey. Her lad was 3 and she took him to Bern in Switzerland on holiday to see some snow and play in the land of his forefathers, while out on a lovely walk he jumped onto a small wall and lost his footing he landed awkwardly and ruptured his spleen and died...She drove over 17 hours up through France/Belgum looking forward to a lovely holiday with him and then had to drive the same back with a small casket of ashes beside her..I cannot begin to understand who awfull that trip was.
But dogs will be dogs and much as we love them we cannot always antisipate every accident, and we cannot spend our time worrying about what may happen as otherwise we would never take themout and let them be dogs.
Aileen

How sad - doesn't bear thinking about. :-(

what a horrific experience for you all, it just doesn't bear thinking about--thank goodness he was able to recover.