Surely is an extraordinary Giant. I have had many, so I know she is different. There are the diggers, the climbers and the jumpers, but Sure is a gazelle! She flies over fences and does it so easily she simply cannot be contained. It's hard to exercise a dog that comes and goes at liberty because you cannot leave her to play and run with the others for fear she will depart.

She's in season now and wants to play with her son Legend. That of course I have not let happen, but gosh she jumps so quickly and it is so silent that just a second out of my sight and it could happen. It is really stressful! She loves to run with deer and wants to get the cats and squirrel.  She's a free spirit and likes to explore. Unlike many of the GS I have known who really are part of a pack Surely cares very little about that kind of thing. She loves her people and likes the other dogs but will happily leave to explore alone.

She did leave last New Years but for another reason. She was in a 6 foot tall pen within a fence yard and at midnight while I was with guests she left because of fireworks and gunfire. I quickly ran to check on the dogs when I heard it, but she was gone! I guess they do that kind of thing here in the country... it was news to me as I am a transplant from the city. Anyway..... I lay on the hammock all night calling her name. It was a dreadful night as I was terribly frightened. At 8am I called in the posse and 7 people came to help. We spread out and handed out hundreds of fliers everywhere. We got a call from someone a couple miles away who had seen her in a ravine behind their house and she was there in the thick wooded area when we found her late that afternoon. Thinking about it makes me literally feel ill even now.

If the right home came along I would re-home her. I am so afraid she will be hit on the highway here which is rather close and she has crossed it before in her travels. If someone in the city in the relative area wanted a dog to jog with and offered her a great home... I know it would be the right thing to do. She scares me so badly and I love her far too much to let my selfishness override good judgment. Its times like these that I try to remember the things I am committed to. Making the right decision is sometimes difficult, but that is not an excuse for doing it anyway.