Dogs working together to find their way back home? My heart! One of my favorite Scooby-Doo episodes as a child was “Decoy for a Dognapper,” and my VHS for Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco was always rewound and ready to go, so perhaps I’m a bit biased when it comes to news like this. But this is the kind of wholesome content I come online for, even if its origin is a bit more bleak and deals with actual dognapping.
On X, a story started going around about a group of seven dogs from a village in northeastern China “stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping their captors and making their way home. The group is believed to have travelled around 17 km (1o mi) together led by a corgi across highways and fields.” Unfortunately, the darker truth behind this is more than just dognapping: These pups were headed to an illegal slaughterhouse.
