The rescuers said on Wednesday that Valerie, a tough mini game, lost her for 18 months – or about half of her life – on an Australian island, which was not reunited with its owners.
The owner Georgia Gardner said her pet was approaching without hesitation when they were reunited by Kangala Wildlife Resue on Kangaroo Island off the coast of southern Australia on Tuesday for the first time since November 2023.
“I ran directly to me – I exploded in crying,” Gardner said in a statement on Wednesday.
Georgia Gardner and his partner Josh Fishok Holdus Valerie, Deseshund, after they were included in Kanjaro Island, in southern Australia, after he lost Valerie for 540 days.
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Gardner added: “She was shaking her tail, making her little happy voices and wrist with joy. She grabbed her, cried and cried.”
Valery, approximately 3 years old, was besieged on April 25, in a significantly good condition after 529 days of living like a brutal animal. Valery was 4 kilograms (9 pounds) when she lost and now weighs 6.8 kilograms (15 pounds). There is speculation that she survived killing roads and animal waste.
Gardner and her partner, Josh Fishuk, were spending a vacation on the island and were far from hunting in the camp when their pet fled from a pen. The couple research, but in the end they had to return to the mainland without it.
Volunteers from Kangala Wildlife Rescue, a non -profit service, discovered a distinctive addition to the Australian wilderness in March.
Valerie, a young game of appearing after its reunification with its owners on the island of Kangaro, in southern Australia after it was lost for 540 days, on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
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She was arrested after volunteers spent an estimated 1,000 hours in search while covering 5,000 km (3000 miles) from the island.
After watching the camera pictures of dogs inhaling a trap last month, the director of the wildlife rescue at Kangalla Jared Karan said he was surprised by the smallness of it in reality.
“If a miracle has survived – you see its size – it is unreasonable to be able to survive and prosper there,” said Karan.
Gardner and Fishlock will return to Valerie to their home in Alburi, New South Wales.
Garner said she was working with a behavioral expert to help move to home life. Gardner said Valerie will remain on a raw diet “given her amazing condition when she was found.”
In Albury, Valerie will be reunited with Rescue Cat Lucy and Cattle Dog Mason. You will also get to know Dishundy for her owners, Dorothy.
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