Canine Travels Throughout Most of Switzerland to Reunite With Household

Switzerland may not be the most important of nations, however touring throughout it on foot continues to be a formidable achievement. It’s much more of a formidable achievement when you occur to be a canine — and, wouldn’t it, a 14-year-old canine aptly named Fortunate completed the spectacular feat of traversing the 100 miles from Bern to Geneva in an try to reunite along with her household.

A report at The Guardian has extra particulars on Fortunate’s journey — assume one half The Unbelievable Journey, one half Heidi.

A number of issues labored out in Fortunate’s favor, each when it comes to her preliminary escape and her makes an attempt to hyperlink up along with her people. These embrace a gap within the fence on the kennel the place her household had boarded her and the truth that Fortunate had been microchipped, which aided native authorities in figuring out her as soon as she’d made her approach again to the Geneva space.

Sadly for Fortunate, her household wasn’t truly there — they have been in Berlin, the place the Geneva authorities reached them and notified them of Fortunate’s journey.

The article quotes Fortunate’s proprietor, Jennifer Wagner, who believes that somebody might have helped transport Fortunate for a part of the hundred-mile journey. As of now, solely Fortunate is aware of the reply to that, and she or he’s not speaking.