Originally published at: Tennessee couple wake to find strange dog asleep with them in bed | Boing Boing
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Somebody’s not telling the truth here, which somebody I don’t know.
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Why? I was wondering how the dog got in the house, but if you click on the link, so were the couple. They think they accidentally left the back door open. And with three dogs in the house already, I could see that in the chaos of letting dogs in and out right before bedtime.
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What I don’t understand is how the dog’s owner walked into the bedroom.
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That was after the owner had responded to the Facebook post, sent the couple a bunch of photos to confirm it was her dog, and was then invited over. I would assume the man was cuddling with the dog and the woman opened the door when the doorbell rang, and then escorted her to the bedroom to show her how adorable her dog was being. As a dog owner, this doesn’t seem implausible or even unlikely.
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Polk is a pretty rural county (go there, raft/kayak the Ocoee, fun!), but leaving your back door open?. Even if you’re not worried about humans, all kinds of critters (including bears) live in the area. I can’t believe a door would just be left open.
It’s a good story, though.
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A literal case of “Honey, where did this extra dog come from?”
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There was a case a year or so ago, where a woman lost her border collie (there was a car accident) as she was travelling through a rural area, and couldn’t find it, and a few days later a farmer said; “there’s a strange dog amongst our dogs, and herding our sheep”, put it together with the lost dog and they were reunited.
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So…It’s possible all that was needed was for the door to have been left unlocked, if it had a door handle instead of a door knob. I don’t know about this dog, but my dog can open any unlocked door that has a door handle.
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But you’re supposed to let sleeping dogs lie, so what can we do about it? 
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See what happens when we give in to modern educational standards and stop teaching our dogs about stranger danger?!
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I had to click on that article and read it, because my first thought on seeing that picture was, “That is not a border collie.” It is, though, at least in part. It’s a mix. I should have known better because I have a border collie/boston terrier mix and he doesn’t look much like a border collie.
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So many dogs have a bit of border collie in them; they get around, those boys!
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Also; the article says; border collie/red heeler mix, so that dog is hardwired to herd.
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Mine, for some reason, seems to be hard wired to be an escape artist and to bark at everything.
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Ha! The barking might be the boston terrier; every boston terrier I come across is very barky.
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“I swear I’m not married. Do see any ring on my paw?”
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The cartoonist? Doesn’t he live in Mississippi?
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Swinging screen door. Our house when I was a kid, in bear, cougar country. Dogs come and go when they needed to , ours and others. Dogs keep th rif raff out . If you didn’t like dogs, you had a better door 
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