Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes for my crazy dog. You guys are great!
He was gone 2 nights, and I had truly given up on him since he had never disappeared like that before. But I did get this dog because he was a stray hanging around a local gas station. A friend took him in and posted signs all over town. She had him almost 6 months before I adopted him.
My mother was sure he ended up in my neighbor's pond, since it would have had a skiff of ice.
He showed up in the yard Christmas Eve afternoon with no burrs or anything in his rough coat. No injuries. He didn't even act hungry. He laid down and rested and was pretty mellow for a couple days. Yesterday he was back to wanting to play with me and one of his dog buddies.
Guess I'll never know his adventure, since none of the neighbors we talked to saw him.
He is a sweet dog, but he did kill one turkey and tried to kill another recently. Part of it is the dumb turkeys' fault for not staying in their yard, but I don't trust my birds to free range when Mickey is on patrol.