All the while she was running toward the highway in front of our house, I was running after her, yelling at the top of my lungs, and pushing the button on the shock collar. I'll swear, I think that dog would run right through an electric fence and drag it after her if she was determined to go somewhere.
The first car that went by missed her, and then I watched (and prayed furiously) as another car slowed and eventually slammed on his brakes just as she was almost across the road. However, I did hear it hit her. I was almost afraid to look after I heard the sound, but she turned around and ran back across the road to me...and almost got hit by another car. I couldn't believe it, but she wasn't even limping. I tried to inspect her right hip, because that's where it had to hit her.
I brought her in the house and poked and prodded. I didn't get a flinch or a yelp out of her at all. She's very stoic, tho, because it takes a lot to get a yelp out of her. Since I definitely DID hear a "thump," I'm guessing that she just has a bruise on her hip from the accident.
She almost gave me a heart attack, tho...I was in worse shape than she was after it happened.
I turned the shock collar up as high as it will go and I am going to trim some of the hair under her neck. I WILL find some way to keep that dog out of the highway.
Oh, I almost forgot...the driver of the car stopped several yards down the highway and, I believe, was intending to come back. He went on after he saw Niña run back across the road to me. He did everything he could to keep from hitting her, and I'm grateful for that.
