A pet dog that fell into the sea off Australia has been returned to its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said last week.
Sophie Tucker, apparently named after a late US entertainer, was thrown overboard as Jan Griffith and her family sailed through choppy waters off the northeast Queensland coast in November.
The dog was believed to have drowned. But out of sight of the family, Sophie Tucker was swimming doggedly and finally made it to St Bees Island, five nautical miles away.
PHOTO: AFP/JAN GRIFFITH
She was returned to her family last week when Griffith contacted rangers who had captured a dog on the island.
When the Griffiths met the rangers’ boat bringing the dog to the mainland they found that it was indeed Sophie Tucker on board.
“We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us,” Griffith told the national AAP news agency.
Griffith said that when the dog was first spotted on the island she had been in poor condition.
“And then all of a sudden she started to look good and it was when the rangers had found baby goat carcasses so she’d started eating baby goats,” she said.
“She surprised us all. She was a house dog and look what she’s done, she’s swum over five nautical miles, she’s managed to live off the land all on her own,” Griffiths said.
“We wish she could talk, we truly do.”(AFP)
上週有媒體報導，一隻跌落澳洲外海的寵物犬，獨自在一座島上求生四個月後，已重回主人的懷抱。
這隻與已故美國女星蘇菲．塔克同名的狗，去年十一月跟著珍．葛里菲斯及其家人到澳洲東北部昆士蘭外海航海時，因風浪過大，不慎落水。
大家都以為她已經溺斃。但在這家人眼力所及的範圍外，蘇菲．塔克一直奮力游泳，最後終於游到五海里外的聖彼斯島上。
上週，葛里菲斯聯絡該島上捉到一隻狗的森林管理員後，她才又回到葛里菲斯家。
森林管理員帶著這隻狗搭船回澳洲本土時，葛里菲斯一家人認出船上的狗的確就是蘇菲．塔克。
「我們叫她的名字，她就開始悲嗥、衝撞籠子。管理員把她放出來後，她差點把我們撞倒在地。」
葛里菲斯說，這隻狗在島上剛被發現時情況很糟。
她說：「然後她忽然有生氣了起來，就在那個時候，森林管理員發現了小山羊的屍首，原來她開始吃小山羊填肚。」
葛里菲斯說：「她讓我們所有人都大吃一驚。她是一隻寵物狗，看看她做了些什麼，她游了超過五海里的泳，還獨自在島上生存。」
「我們希望她能說話，我們衷心這樣希望。」（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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