Valerie, a dachshund, has been rescued after spending over 500 days in the Australian bush.
Valerie had accompanied her owners on a camping trip to Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, in November 2023.
Georgia Gardner and her boyfriend, Joshua Fishlock, had left Valerie in a playpen at their campsite, while they went fishing. When they returned Valerie was gone.
After Valerie went missing, other campers would occasionally spot her, but she continued to evade attempts at capture. Finally she was caught in a trap which had food as well as some of her owner’s clothes and some of her toys, after she had survived 529 days in the wild.