She Came Home !

Our 10 year old dog Molly has had a difficult week. For the past 4 days she's been very lethargic and loosing her appitite. So on tuesday I took her to the vet.They took blood and it showed positive for lyme disease. With meds perscribed the vet thinks she will make a complete recovery. About 10:30 last night she was out in the yard doing her buisness when suddenly she took off like a rocket! She was heading on the same path as we take every day on our walk. There is a school next to my house and that's where she was going. She walks the perimeter of the school's field so I tried to cut her off and I did. But when I leaned over to pick her up she let out a yelp which froze me for a second. She was back at top speed heading back towards home. But she kept on going....like a greyhound! Her command to stop is WAIT but when I yelled that she went faster! She's never done this before,I think the meds had something to do with it. Maybe if I took those meds I would be able to keep up but that wasn't to be. My sister,niece and nephew took up the search with my wife and I for several hours with no luck. I figured she was exhausted and curled up in someones yard and would have to wait until daylight to search again. I kept the front gate open in case she came back. I was dozing off on the couch looking through the storm door expecting to see her eyes and ears peering through the window wanting to come in. About a minute later(1:45 am) there she was trotting into the yard. She was shivering and stunk awful! She either got into someones freshly fertized garden or made it down to the docks. She's only a dog.....Ya right!