Australian story Season 30 Episode 32

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00:00one of my first sightings of Valerie was probably within a week or two of her disappearance

00:12as we're looking around checking the sheep but there was this little dog that just popped up

00:18and she was as surprised as we were she was not having a part of it she just bolted I honestly

00:26didn't expect to see her again because we didn't think she'd survive it's a rugged place Kangaroo

00:34Island on the north coast particularly you know there's all sorts of things that could have happened

00:40and this is only a little dog it's a runt of a dog and then this photograph appears of a dash

00:48hound running across a paddock and we've looked at that and gone oh my gosh that dog is still alive

00:56people got excited and people got involved and suddenly the hunt for Valerie was on

01:03but it's closing in on Valerie the infamous runaway sausage dog a twist in the tale of

01:10South Australia's four-legged fugitive it's now been nearly 500 days since Georgia and

01:15Josh have seen their beloved sausage dog there are literally millions of people watching this

01:21if we lose that dog we're gonna be the laughing stock of the world she's now spent more time of her

01:32life missing on an island than she has with us we just wanted to bring our dog home I mean how hard is

01:41it to find a sausage dog yeah I mean surely we can find a sausage dog have any of you guys seen Valerie

01:47there's quite a few sausage dogs getting

02:17around on kangaroo island now say hello to do learn some tricks good job they're not a dog that I'm

02:26attracted to I like a bigger dog really dog that can actually do things okay the long long back and

02:36long body and the short legs their proportions don't make sense yeah I hate using the term cute but yeah they are really

02:45cute they're a hunting dog they're snappy little buggers on a good day Winnie that's enough here's a fun fact

02:57their feet smell like Doritos actual um if they were a human oh geez I'd be like me bit quirky bit special

03:08well done I think you have to have a sausage dog to know what it would be like to lose one

03:17thank you

03:26I first got Valerie as a present from my parents get out stop come on get out of there you terror I actually

03:41wasn't very impressed that they'd gotten me a puppy dog but yeah I fell in love with her she went

03:52absolutely everywhere with me Valerie would have been four months old when I met Josh I never thought in

04:02my wildest dreams that I would have a dash hand I was always kind of a big dog person but yeah Valerie

04:10started to become a very very special part of my life what is that she slept in bed with us she was our

04:22little princess so in November of 2023 we went on a family holiday to Kangaroo Island and we just thought

04:34it would be so much fun to go on a dog friendly holiday so yeah we decided to take her with us

04:39we get to Stokes Bay we set up camp and then we went to go to the beach and we took Valerie and she

04:59loved the beach so then it gets to the afternoon and so we're like oh we just really want to go kind of go fishing see if we

05:13can catch a fish but we didn't want to bring Valerie because it was very rocky

05:18so we come back to the campsite we'd set up her pen her toys her water food bed everything like that

05:29we're like look this should give us about half an hour

05:32we could see where we wanted to go fishing it was probably 200 meters away

05:40we got over there and I reckon it was probably 15 minutes yeah not even we had been over there and

05:51I saw this lady walking towards us and just had that feeling that there's something wrong

05:56Valerie had been in her pen and then she'd scratched on the edges and she'd gotten out and sat underneath

06:05Josh's car and one of the other campers was concerned that she'd get run over so they

06:10went to try and catch her and unfortunately they chased her about 500 meters up into a

06:17property and she was last seen going up a hill she just kept running she was like a

06:22little jackrabbit just bolting up this hill I run the cafe at Stokes Bay both of them

06:34came in here Georgia in tears very very distraught very very upset and obviously you ask the question

06:44what's going on and the dog's gone dogs run away they come back but for some reason something kept

06:53her moving and well she didn't come back we searched in the property for about an hour and a half we're

07:04exhausted from crying and searching and that's when we met Joe I'm thinking who that is walking on the property

07:17and they informed me they'd lost their dog so I thought oh what sort of dog have you lost

07:24a dash hound

07:26dash hound

07:27I offered to take them for a ride in the buggy see if she was running along the fence line

07:33we thought she could survive maybe a night or two

07:38um but that's about it

07:44the Kangaroo Island community Facebook page is the quickest most logical way we can see to get this

08:03message out and I put a post up saying you know our little dog's gone missing our little black and

08:08and dash hound if anyone sees anything please contact these are our numbers his photo of her and

08:14then Kangala Wildlife Rescue commented I think it was like two or three days after she first went missing

08:21that we got involved and by that stage we're starting to think this isn't looking good and

08:30it's not as going to be as simple as just a lost dog that's gone for a walk

08:34Jared came to Stokes Bay and we were like can we just put a trap out and he explained why that

08:42wouldn't work you know wildlife would just go in it and we don't actually know where she is

08:46and I can still remember standing there and there were three eagles up in the sky

08:51and I said to them I don't I don't know that your dog would have made it past them

09:00Valerie! Valerie!

09:07We did not want to leave that island without our dog

09:10we had a bit of a routine we'd go around on the gator with Joe the rest of it would do it all by foot

09:17we would have been walking at least 15 20 k's a day

09:26yeah

09:26oh there's you know there'd have to be maybe 200 acres here

09:33you know it's quite hilly it's thick scrub it's not nice scrub it's prickly scrub

09:39it backs onto a national park this property so it's quite thick out there

09:44this place is huge like this isn't this is a this is more than a needle in our estate

09:53we spent five days I think having a look before they decided they had to go back home and

10:01leave the dog here

10:03so we went to where she was last seen

10:08talking with Jared they said you know try and leave your scent

10:14and then Josh decided he would put his undies there because that was what smelled the most

10:23that it would be his undies and I was like why

10:26we were saying her goodbyes and knowing that we might not see her but we needed to

10:32we needed to continue on with our with our lives

10:35yeah there was tears when they left

10:39I remember Josh saying that when we find her we will be back

10:47and I sort of thought well yeah yeah probably won't see you again

10:52I'm a nurse at the Kangaroo Island Health Service

11:08I was at work when my daughter said that there's a missing sausage dog

11:15and the owners have left and went to the boss and said

11:19I'm going to Stokes Bay to look for a sausage dog

11:22and they're like okay then you do that

11:26I heard that she'd been seen by a local farmer up near McBride's Road

11:37so it was a fair way up from Stokes Bay

11:39I would park and then walk up and down the road with two dogs

11:46and just repeat the process over days

11:49Valerie

11:50calling out Valerie

11:52where is she

11:53and hoping for the best

11:56Valerie

11:58there was a lot of nights where I'd lie there awake thinking

12:03poor Valerie would have been freezing at night

12:06cold, wet, scared probably

12:09Kangaroo Island's got some pretty wild weather

12:14there's all sorts of things I suppose

12:18snakes, eagles, farmers

12:21farmers around here don't appreciate dogs on their property

12:24so they could have shot her

12:25she could have starved

12:26because she was a domesticated dog to start with

12:29Valerie

12:30Valerie

12:33when we got into that first winter

12:37we thought

12:39nah she's

12:40there's no way that she's going to survive

12:42we kind of went through all the five stages of grief

12:54not knowing what happened to her, where she was

13:00that really, was really, really hard

13:03as time went on

13:06you know we actually had to get like another dog

13:08then that helped us a lot with the grieving process

13:13Dorothy

13:13sit

13:14shake

13:15shake

13:16down

13:17down

13:18good girl

13:19Valerie had been missing for around 12 months

13:23when we moved from Broken Hill to Aubrey

13:26we boxed up all of her belongings

13:32and then when we moved

13:34Josh had the box

13:35and he said what do you want me to do with this

13:37and I looked at him

13:38and I said no

13:39like I'm too attached

13:40like

13:41there's still a chance

13:42she could be out there

13:43there's still a chance

13:44we could get her home

13:45I can't get rid of this

13:47like we're bringing it with us

13:48today at 3.47 marks one year since we lost our beautiful Valerie

14:08not a day goes by that we don't think of her

14:11and we'll always have hope that one day she'll return

14:14wherever she is

14:15we just wish that she's safe and happy

14:18on the year anniversary of her disappearance

14:24we got a call from a lady

14:26she said that she'd actually seen Valerie

14:28I think it was three times across the year

14:31there was a few times when we'd see her

14:36honestly

14:36her little ears were just flapping in the wind

14:39she was glossy

14:40you know she'd look at us

14:42it was almost like

14:43smile at us and mock us

14:45and say you're not going to catch me

14:46I'm having a great time

14:47Valerie's up there

14:49running running

14:51I can barely see her on the thing

14:53but it's Valerie

14:54we're responsible for quite a large sheep

14:58cattle and cropping enterprise

15:01you know on occasion

15:02we wouldn't see her for two months or three months

15:04and then suddenly we'd see her again

15:06and this sort of went on

15:07she's there

15:09amazing

15:10well we were concerned for her outcome

15:15but at the end of the day

15:16this little dog was just going too fast

15:18we always wanted to keep it very low key

15:22every manny's dog would have been here

15:24had we put a big sign out the front

15:26Valerie here

15:28I contacted Georgia

15:32and let her know that we'd seen the dog on our property

15:36but we didn't actually hear from them again

15:40they obviously may have been a bit sceptical

15:42I'd gone through a lot

15:44and I didn't want to get my hopes up

15:46just to be shattered and back at square one

15:48it's really hard

15:51because I don't know her

15:53she doesn't know me

15:53could it just be some person playing a sick prank on us kind of thing

15:58we didn't know about all of these sightings

16:05wasn't anything that was making it to social media or to our attention

16:10it wasn't until sort of we're into 2025

16:14and then the photograph comes up

16:17Rob's a very good friend of ours

16:24and he came over to help me out with some work

16:27he was out doing some fencing

16:29and spotted Valerie

16:31I was out in the paddock

16:35and just noticed the cattle

16:37all in the corner

16:38facing one direction towards a dam

16:40and I thought

16:42this is a bit strange

16:43what's going on

16:45something black

16:49shot up over the other side

16:50and took off

16:52it was very small

16:55and I managed to get two photos

16:58so I sent the photo to Sharon

17:03and I think I said

17:04is this Valerie

17:06look who that is

17:09look at her little bum

17:12to know that she was alive

17:15and to have proof she was alive

17:16it was

17:17yeah it was pretty good

17:19but we still weren't sure if we were going to catch her

17:22no one really knew what to do

17:24and how to go about it

17:25so when Jared and Lisa

17:28and the Cain Gala crew come on board

17:30and yeah we knew she was in good hands

17:33Lisa's always been an animal rescuer

17:40on a small scale

17:41and then in 2019, 2020

17:43the black summer bushfires

17:45half of Kangaroo Island was burnt down

17:47so we ended up with

17:49literally a couch full of kangaroos

17:51it was a way for us to do something positive

17:54and it just kept growing

17:56I think no animal has ever turned away

18:00so we actually put a post up on Facebook

18:05the local site

18:06and said Kangala Wildlife Rescue

18:08are going to start an official rescue mission

18:11for Valerie

18:12the idea was just to find location

18:15attract her there

18:17and hopefully catch her

18:19sounded simple

18:21it was really early in the pace

18:29when I got a phone call from the advertiser

18:33which is the local Adelaide newspaper

18:35and literally overnight

18:38for some reason that story was picked up

18:40and that's when the chaos really started

18:44well there's fresh hope this morning

18:46for the owners of Valerie

18:48a sausage dog lost for almost 500 days

18:51has been spotted by locals

18:53this photo taken just over a week ago

18:56proving Valerie might still be out there

18:58I wasn't really following it

19:00until I saw on the Channel 7 news

19:02that Valerie had been spotted on KI

19:05and I think

19:06bullshit

19:07I'm a lifelong island resident

19:10and mayor of Kangaroo Island

19:11I've got single phone calls

19:14TV stations everywhere

19:16wanted to talk about Valerie

19:18and I'm going well

19:19I don't really know Valerie

19:20we didn't expect phone calls

19:24from the New York Times

19:25or people like that

19:27and we had to keep reminding ourselves

19:31that she hadn't been caught yet

19:33when Jared first came out here

19:39we went for a tour around

19:41Ivan was the one that said

19:45she's moving along this creek line

19:46this valley line

19:47so we decided to set up the trap here

19:50in this little bit of an opening

19:52so we had six cameras

19:55all up on the posts

19:56and then inside the cage

19:59we had one camera like this

20:01recording 24-7

20:02and then we had two trail cams

20:05which took five second videos

20:07and then we got our first sighting

20:14of her on the camera

20:15Valerie had become a wild dog

20:24I thought it was going to be

20:26as mad as a snake

20:27I thought it would be

20:30just that wild

20:31you'd never rehabilitate it

20:32we knew that it wasn't going to be easy

20:37and we were very mindful

20:39of the psychological side of things

20:41and wanting to get this dog

20:43switching off of

20:45you know fight or flight

20:46so the plan was to get her

20:50comfortable enough to go into the trap

20:52getting more and more confident

20:53more and more calm when she came in

20:56we've set up the cage

20:58with all the comforts of home

21:00for little Valerie

21:01with her toys and teddies

21:02and blankets

21:03so we're just doing that

21:04and then we're off

21:05and hopefully she visits tonight

21:07she was always so alert

21:11like in my mind

21:13it's not going to be a safe place

21:14until she at least sits down

21:16in that trap

21:17lies down

21:18and just goes

21:18this is a safe area

21:20but yeah we didn't see that

21:23for a very long time

21:25they continued to reassure us

21:30that they would do everything

21:31that they possibly could

21:33to bring her home

21:34and at the end of the day

21:36we had to trust

21:38what they were saying

21:38we didn't know how long

21:43this was going to take

21:44you know we thought

21:47it would be a week maybe

21:49but it wasn't

21:50why don't they just run in

21:56and grab her

21:56when she's near the cage

21:58they think a lot about

21:59her transition

22:00and her behaviour

22:01and how she's going to go

22:02going from being in the wild

22:03for a year and a half

22:04to coming back into our house

22:06the pressure of the whole world

22:10looking at you

22:11and the worst case scenario

22:13was that she vanishes

22:15again

22:15and nobody ever knows

22:17what happened to her

22:18I sort of kind of had a plan

22:20didn't know if it was going to work

22:22if it was correct

22:23they said look

22:24it would be absolutely great

22:25if you could send

22:26something that has your scent on it

22:28and we might be able to put that around

22:30to try and trigger her brain

22:32and so I decided to get one of my shirts

22:35and go and exercise

22:37and run around in it

22:38just so that I could get

22:40as sweaty as possible

22:41and that it could have

22:42as much as my scent as possible

22:43it stunk

22:45it was so bad

22:47and then

22:48yeah

22:49mailed that cross to them

22:50just got

22:53some of her t-shirt

22:54and so we're just going to

22:57rub it on the cage

22:58here we go

22:59I remember the real

23:16real turning point

23:17was that video

23:18that Lisa sent me

23:19and she goes into the trap

23:21and she grabs the toy

23:23and she shakes it

23:24and then she sits down

23:26my heart

23:31oh my gosh

23:32she

23:32you know like

23:33that's her

23:34that's her

23:35that's her little girl

23:36she's not some feral wild thing

23:37like you know

23:38you're just looking at her

23:39and you just think

23:39like she wants to come home

23:41like she

23:41she remembers it

23:42she

23:43it's going to be alright

23:44so the next problem

23:48that we encountered

23:49was

23:49the sheer number

23:51of wildlife

23:52that could have

23:53set the trap off

23:54what we had to do

24:03was get a

24:04completely remote

24:05way of shutting

24:07that trap door

24:08from a mobile phone

24:09we ended up

24:12raiding the

24:13local

24:14crash repairers

24:15and

24:15we found this

24:17it was a

24:17what it is

24:18it's actually the motor

24:18that drives

24:19and the electric windows

24:21in a car

24:21so once we installed

24:25that

24:25we sat there

24:26for

24:26night after night

24:28and

24:29she never came

24:31we ended up

24:40realising

24:40how clever

24:41she was

24:42and that

24:42dash hounds are

24:43in general

24:44I mean

24:44she knew

24:45every time

24:45we were down

24:46there

24:46she was

24:47watching us

24:48I think we got

24:51to day six

24:52we stayed there

24:54till 8.30

24:54in the morning

24:55and

24:56still no Valerie

24:57so

24:58we went

25:00home

25:00and

25:01then

25:02about

25:0212.30

25:03who should

25:05mix things up

25:06and appear

25:06during the day

25:07it's like

25:13you've got

25:14to be kidding

25:14me

25:15and

25:18she was

25:18super calm

25:19it was

25:21a matter

25:21of pressing

25:22the button

25:22did the trap

25:24work

25:24yes

25:24the door

25:25released

25:25the dog

25:27is in

25:27the trap

25:28thankfully

25:32it only took

25:33six weeks

25:33it actually

25:40was quite

25:41emotional

25:41because we

25:42just saw

25:43that this

25:43poor little

25:44sweet dog

25:45had just

25:46been longing

25:47for human

25:47interaction

25:48and attention

25:49and cuddles

25:50and love

25:50and all

25:51those things

25:52that had

25:52been missing

25:53and we

25:58could see

25:58that she

25:59was going

25:59to be okay

26:00what's this

26:00is yours

26:03I had a

26:08call from

26:08Lisa

26:09she called

26:11me and

26:11she said

26:12we've got

26:12it

26:13that

26:14will go

26:15down

26:15as one

26:16of the

26:16best

26:17days

26:17in my

26:18life

26:19a

26:20miniature

26:22dashand

26:22which

26:23survived

26:23almost

26:2418

26:24months

26:25in the

26:25South

26:25Australian

26:26wilderness

26:26has been

26:27captured

26:27we were

26:29blown away

26:30by just

26:31how good

26:32a condition

26:32she was

26:32in

26:32she had

26:34packed on

26:351.8 kilos

26:36of muscle

26:36beautiful

26:37white pearly

26:38teeth

26:38just a picture

26:40of health

26:40so then

26:43the conspiracy

26:44started

26:45I have

26:46absolutely

26:47no doubt

26:48that somebody

26:49unknown

26:50fed this dog

26:51for the duration

26:52while it was

26:52out there

26:53that little dog

26:55could not have

26:55come out

26:56looking so good

26:57so shiny

26:57without somebody

26:58providing it

26:59with a bit of

27:00love care

27:01and attention

27:01there was

27:02there was no

27:03bowl of

27:03kibbles

27:03for her

27:04there was

27:05no bowl

27:06of kibbles

27:06at all

27:07so and I

27:07know a lot

27:08of people

27:08thought that

27:09but no

27:10we are currently

27:17in Signet River

27:19on Kangaroo

27:20Island

27:20we are here

27:26to pick up

27:26Valerie

27:27our little

27:28dash hand

27:28that went

27:30missing 18

27:30months ago

27:31what is she

27:35going to look

27:36like

27:36is she going to

27:37remember me

27:37like oh

27:38I'm excited

27:38but I'm a bit

27:40nervous

27:40I think

27:47I'm making

27:47this medicine

27:47I'm a lot

27:48so as Valerie

27:52went in

27:53she's looked

27:53over at Georgia

27:54and there was

27:55just a slight

27:56hesitation

27:57and then all of a

27:59sudden you could

27:59just see the

28:00recognition

28:00it was like

28:10a miracle

28:10it literally

28:11was like a

28:12miracle

28:12hello

28:13do you miss us

28:14do you remember

28:16us

28:16I think so

28:18we are just

28:19so grateful

28:20just so grateful

28:21for everyone

28:22and how they

28:23treated us

28:23and how lovely

28:24they were

28:24where you going

28:26Valerie

28:26going home

28:27mummy's not

28:28going without you

28:29this

28:29same thing

28:30it was a bit

28:33emotional

28:33wasn't it

28:34they'll be

28:35a regular

28:35I got that

28:36we just fell

28:37in love

28:37with that

28:37little dog

28:38it's just

28:56very special

28:56to have our

28:57family back

28:58together again

28:58it's incredible

29:00how many hearts

29:02Valerie's story

29:03has touched

29:03and the impact

29:04that she's made

29:05oh you are

29:06very cute

29:06there'll probably

29:07be like a movie

29:08made out of it

29:09or something like

29:10that for kids

29:10Valerie the dog

29:12that survives

29:12in the scrub

29:13everyone likes

29:16a feel good story

29:17and it was

29:19a good ending

29:19to a good story

29:20like

29:21who would have

29:22thought

29:22well I always

29:30just say

29:30Dachshund

29:31but

29:31Dachshund

29:32or Dachshund

29:33or Dachshund

29:35or Dachshund

29:36yeah

29:37I ended up

29:38settling on

29:39Dachshund

29:40Dachshund

29:41Dachshund

29:43yeah

29:43it's a tricky

29:44one

29:45try and spell

29:45it

29:46sausage dog

29:47how about

29:48little sausage

29:49dog

29:49you can't get

29:51that wrong

29:51yeah

29:52our little

29:53snaggers

29:53you

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