Dog Found using Owner's T-shirt after 529 Days in Australian Wilderness

Monday, April 28, 2025

A miniature dachshund has been found alive and well after spending more than 500 days in the Australian wilderness.

Posted by retort at 03:24 PM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink

For 528 days, Valerie the miniature dachshund survived in the Australian wilderness by eating roadkill and eluding the grasp of humans who wanted to rescue her. All the while, her owners worried about whether they would see her again.

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-- The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) April 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM

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Poor thing!

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-28 03:59 PM

On that island Valerie was the meanest animal on four feet.

#2 | Posted by grumpy_too at 2025-04-29 01:13 AM

Escaping humans?

I'm wondering how she escaped the dingo's ravenous appetite for easy prey.

#3 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-04-29 05:47 AM

Dog Found using Owner's T-shirt

Pic of the dog wearing the shirt?

#4 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-29 06:58 PM

What an incredible story. WTG to the brave little guy!

#5 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-29 07:44 PM

PS - I just looked up stats on miniature dachshunds. Never more than 11 pounds.

Wow, 529 in heat and poisonous snakes. Yep, that's a brave little feller alright ...

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-29 07:46 PM

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

I have a lot of them, and I can tell you that a- they love heat, and b- they will eat snek.
One of mine learned to hunt crawfish after flooding rain, head underwater to the ears. She taught some of the others too.

#7 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-29 09:04 PM

brave little guy!
brave little feller alright ...

VALERIE is her name please

#8 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-29 09:06 PM

Never more than 11 pounds.

yeah maybe on their drivers license...

#9 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-29 09:08 PM

They can survive indefinitely on small rodents and their own excrement.

#10 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-29 09:21 PM

Her claws are wore to a nub! Somewhere there is a new underground city.

#11 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-04-29 09:26 PM

VALERIE is her name please