{"id":6319,"date":"2025-05-15T22:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2025-05-15T22:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:18:21","slug":"dachshund-valerie-reunited-with-owners-georgia-gardner-josh-fishlock-after-529-days-on-kangaroo-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=6319","title":{"rendered":"Dachshund Valerie reunited with owners Georgia Gardner, Josh Fishlock after 529 days on Kangaroo Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World-wide sensation, Valerie the miniature sausage dog, has been reunited with her owners after spending 529 days in the wild on Kangaroo Island.<\/p>\n<p>The fugitive dachshund miraculously survived in the wilderness after she slipped out of her play pen and disappeared into the bush, leaving owners Georgia Gardner and Josh Fishlock devastated.<\/p>\n<p>After 17 months apart, the nervous couple from New South Wales returned to Kangaroo Island to finally hold their beloved pup in their hands again after all this time.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Gardner said she was \u201cspeechless\u201d and \u201cbawled\u201d her eyes out when she saw Valerie wagging her tail and heard her bark for the first time since her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were very nervous coming in today but the reaction was just priceless,\u201d Mr Fishlock told.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bawled my eyes out and just seeing her come up and wag her tail and bark, I\u2019m speechless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust so much emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-wide sensation, Valerie the miniature sausage dog, has been reunited with her owners after spending 529 days in the wild on Kangaroo Island. The fugitive dachshund miraculously&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}