Not strictly true
Mine has done a runner twice - once whilst being exercised by a friend - she was out overnight and found her way home from 8 miles away. My ex was recuperating after a leg op and I was working and we thought getting someone to walk her would work - never again.
2nd time was just in September - had gone to visit my gran over 200 miles away and ex was supposed to be looking after her - he left her with his elderly parents and she bolted out of the front door, managed to cross a very busy main road and was found the next morning by a lovely couple in Berkhamsted, some 8 miles away from where she was staying. The ex lives on a boat and so she seems to head for familiar places along the canal - glad she went the way she did, wouldn't have fancied her chances in Watford! On both occasions she was trying to get home....
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Tue 7 Dec 2010, 10:49, Reply)