Echo decided, on hearing a barking invitation from another dog walking just below the bank, to join him and have a bit of a laugh. The property at the lake is secluded and the edge goes down a fairly steep bank and joins public walkways. Generally we don't hear people walking unless they are talking loudly, and so Echo's disappearance wasn't noticed at first. When it was realised that he was no longer on the property, but had taken off on his own little accord, there was pandemonium. I doubt whether more panic would have taken place had it been a child missing.
Everyone was put to work searching, driving around, calling for the dog. Only one small shop in the vicinity, but a large notice-board, so a notice was written and taken down to the shop - to find that just minutes before, the dog-walking owners had put a notice there to contact them if anyone had lost a little black, long-tailed miniature poodle.
Such panic afforded by a small black dog!
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