1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,600 What's up y'all? 2 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,240 Thanks for joining the Travel Tales and Talk podcast with Derek and Makayla. 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:13,240 I'm Derek. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,240 I'm Makayla. 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,800 Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:25,240 Uh oh, I think I've done it again. 7 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:30,480 I'm training dogs and one of them go missing. 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,880 And now I'm in the woods at night. 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,760 Honey, why are we in the woods at night? 10 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,760 Because you lost my dog again. 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,720 He lost himself. 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:47,280 And let me tell y'all, now the last episode y'all heard me tell this man, do not come 13 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,240 home if you left one of my dogs in the woods. 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:51,680 But it's dark. 15 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:59,960 So this time, he leaves my dog Scout, who was one of the babies. 16 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:02,600 He's one of the younger ones as well. 17 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,920 Leaves him in the woods alone. 18 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:10,200 And Scout, we like to joke that he is a forever puppy. 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:11,200 He acts like a toddler. 20 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,800 He is a toddler. 21 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:20,400 He literally, think about the things a toddler does when they're sticking fingers in sockets 22 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,040 and just being into everything. 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:25,360 Eating tennis balls. 24 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:26,360 Eating rocks. 25 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,840 Tearing up stuff. 26 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,440 Scout has lost two teeth over chewing on rocks. 27 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,680 Literally, the biggest teeth in a dog's mouth. 28 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:37,680 The molars. 29 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:42,160 They're huge, like the thickest and strongest biggest teeth in their mouth. 30 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,680 Our dog has lost both of his from chewing on rocks. 31 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:46,680 You have to think about it. 32 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:51,560 It has to be disgusting going in and difficult coming out. 33 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,680 But that's what he's going to do. 34 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:54,680 And that's Scout. 35 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,360 Scout is always into something. 36 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,160 He's always hyper. 37 00:01:58,160 --> 00:01:59,160 He's a toddler. 38 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:00,160 He literally is a toddler. 39 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,480 He's a forever puppy. 40 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,320 But anyway, this particular. 41 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,760 This particular day, the day before, I wanted to get them out because the weather was perfect. 42 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:15,800 I was off from work and it was perfect tracking season for the dogs. 43 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:16,800 This makes perfect. 44 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:18,240 And we go to our same. 45 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,240 Well, this is a different location, but it's a usual spot that we go to. 46 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,960 So they know this place like the back of their hands. 47 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,760 And the crazy part is we go to our same spot and bam, they walk in. 48 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,480 Rabbit gets up right in front of them. 49 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:36,040 It just comes from out of nowhere and they go crazy and they run this rabbit for 45 minutes 50 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,760 to an hour. 51 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,520 And then all of a sudden, it just goes quiet. 52 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:41,520 Just like nothing. 53 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:42,520 Like they just disappeared. 54 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:49,000 And I was like, oh my God, this woman's going to kill me if I lose all four of them. 55 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,920 So I got to find at least two of them. 56 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:52,920 At least two of them. 57 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:53,920 That was my thought. 58 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:55,760 I got to find at least two of them. 59 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:02,680 So I mean like 30 minutes goes by, an hour goes by, hour and a half goes by. 60 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,440 And I'm like, oh my God, these dogs have disappeared. 61 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,640 And I had some crazy thoughts go through my head. 62 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:14,560 Like maybe they fell down a well, maybe a bear got them because their bear was in this 63 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:15,560 part of the state. 64 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,960 Maybe they got attacked by a bear. 65 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:19,840 Maybe it was a wolf coyote. 66 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:20,840 I started thinking like you did. 67 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,840 And I was like, no, it can't be it. 68 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,400 So I'm walking these woods. 69 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,840 I walked these woods for like an hour, two hours and nothing, not a trace. 70 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,780 They just disappeared. 71 00:03:32,780 --> 00:03:34,740 And I was about to give up. 72 00:03:34,740 --> 00:03:37,160 And then Tracker comes around the corner first. 73 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:38,760 Of course, he's the first one back. 74 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,080 I was like, whew, if I can come home with Tracker, she might not kill me because you 75 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:44,080 love Tracker. 76 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,080 Boy. 77 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,720 I was like, okay, I could sleep in the house, probably in the garage. 78 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,920 I could probably sleep in the garage with Tracker. 79 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,000 Another 15 minutes goes by and here comes Chase. 80 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,800 I was like, okay, two out of four, that's 50%. 81 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,680 Maybe I can sleep in the basement. 82 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,380 So I go from the garage to the basement. 83 00:04:06,380 --> 00:04:08,800 And then another 15, 20 minutes goes by. 84 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,160 I'm really getting concerned because I don't see Ranger or Scout. 85 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,520 But then Ranger comes back. 86 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,640 You know, Ranger and Scout, once again, they do nothing without each other. 87 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:18,640 So I was concerned. 88 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,720 I was like, whew, where's Scout? 89 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:28,900 And I have to come back with all four because the next four days, it's going to be like 90 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:31,400 Antarctica in Kentucky. 91 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,440 And I was thoroughly concerned. 92 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,600 I'm like, he won't survive that. 93 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,520 And when Derek says Antarctica. 94 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:39,520 Frozen. 95 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:44,720 It was expected to get in single digits where we live. 96 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,000 A little over zero for several days. 97 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:54,000 And our dogs, you know, Derek has tried to make them outdoor dogs, but our dogs sleep 98 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,120 in the house every night. 99 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,120 But they're still dogs. 100 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,120 They can handle it. 101 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:06,220 And so I was worried about his fur not being thick enough, you know, because he's not outside 102 00:05:06,220 --> 00:05:07,280 all the time. 103 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:15,200 So you know, and I made Derek, he came home with the three and I had his tail. 104 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,920 I don't even know if I let him eat that night. 105 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,960 I told him, you better get back in this car and get out here and show me where you lost 106 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:22,880 my dog and let's go look for him. 107 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:23,880 All three of us. 108 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:24,880 It was me, you and London Rose. 109 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,440 Oh yeah, because London Rose is not, she don't play them games either. 110 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,640 And we were all, we were back in the Armada. 111 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:31,640 Back in the Marla. 112 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:36,200 And the Armada and we drove all the way up to the edge of the woods. 113 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,200 All the way to the back. 114 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:39,200 Yeah. 115 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,960 That's where he lost him at. 116 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:45,720 And there's a parking area there and then it's just trees and trees and trees. 117 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,240 So I wasn't silly. 118 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,800 I'm not going to say, hey, let's drive the truck down. 119 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,800 We weren't going to do that. 120 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,480 So we stopped in the parking lot. 121 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:54,480 You learned your lesson from that. 122 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,000 But it was pitch black. 123 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,280 Like you couldn't barely see your hands in front of your face. 124 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:04,160 And then that's when I had a thought like, Ooh, this could go left real fast. 125 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,800 Cause what if like an alien or some kind of monster. 126 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:08,800 Jason's out there. 127 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,200 So it looked like we were in Crystal Lake somewhere. 128 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:12,280 It really did. 129 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:15,520 And I was like, man, we can go missing and no one would know. 130 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,500 Cause we're all the way back in the cut. 131 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:19,500 But I didn't care. 132 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:21,760 You know, Derek got out, he brought some dog food. 133 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:22,760 Left a blanket. 134 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:28,520 He left a blanket, left some of his clothes, put some food out for him. 135 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,960 And he never showed. 136 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,200 We did the whole, hiya, hiya, hiya thing. 137 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,280 We stayed out there at least an hour and a half. 138 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:36,280 It was about two hours. 139 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:39,120 We sat in that truck calling for him. 140 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:40,280 Nothing. 141 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:42,400 And then we had to leave. 142 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:43,400 We had to leave. 143 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,400 It was getting late. 144 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,300 And of course I couldn't sleep. 145 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:49,960 We get up and I wait, you know, till the sun to come out. 146 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,620 And I learned my lesson from the time I got stuck in the mud. 147 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:58,280 But I also made, on the second day, I made a recording. 148 00:06:58,280 --> 00:06:59,280 This day on day one. 149 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:01,360 This day on, that's right. 150 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,360 Because we go out. 151 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:03,360 We go out with all the dogs. 152 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,360 All the dogs. 153 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:05,360 We bring all the dogs. 154 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,480 And what you guys don't understand is when a beagle barks out in the woods, their voices 155 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:11,480 echoes. 156 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:12,480 It's really loud. 157 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,240 It's very loud and it travels far. 158 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,880 And we stayed out there all the way until it started snowing. 159 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,320 We were out there a good four hours. 160 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:24,320 Yes. 161 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,520 And the dogs jumped a rabbit. 162 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,920 And that was my hope that they would jump a rabbit and Scout would come from out the 163 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:31,920 bushes or something. 164 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:33,280 But that didn't work. 165 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,280 Yeah. 166 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,060 Scout didn't show up and we stayed out there. 167 00:07:36,060 --> 00:07:38,080 And then we found signs of Scout. 168 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,520 We think we found where he slept. 169 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:46,480 You know, because he was leaving like little traces of himself, if that makes sense. 170 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,080 He had like little paw prints and things like that. 171 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,480 And it started snowing so we had to leave. 172 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:55,240 And you know. 173 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,720 And it started snowing hard and fast. 174 00:07:58,720 --> 00:07:59,720 It did. 175 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:06,520 The snow came down really fast because that was the time when it snowed in our area so 176 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,920 fast that the interstate kind of shut down. 177 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,440 And we got trapped on the interstate. 178 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:19,320 So from this training location, it's about 45 minutes max from the house. 179 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,040 And on the way back because of the snow. 180 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,560 It took us almost three hours. 181 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:23,560 Yes. 182 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:24,560 It was a long drive. 183 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,480 We spent most of the time sitting on 75. 184 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:28,920 And that's part of the concern. 185 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:29,920 It was a lot of snow. 186 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:35,040 So we were worried that Scout was freezing to death now at this point. 187 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:41,640 And then the next day I had an idea that I would make a recording. 188 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:42,640 On day two. 189 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:43,640 Uh huh. 190 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,760 And I had a speaker and I made the recording like, hiya, hiya, hiya. 191 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:47,760 Come on Scout. 192 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:48,760 Come on boy. 193 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:49,760 Come on Scout. 194 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:50,760 Scout. 195 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:51,760 Scout. 196 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:52,760 Scout. 197 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,440 And I had this whole recording going and the recording looped for like two minutes. 198 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:57,440 It looped. 199 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,880 And I was like, here, just take this record and just play it and then play it through 200 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:02,880 the speakers. 201 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:04,880 I noticed you stayed at home while I was out in the snow. 202 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:05,880 Oh, I stayed home. 203 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:07,520 So I had to put on my snow gear. 204 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:08,520 He did. 205 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:09,520 I didn't have snow gear. 206 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,040 I live in Kentucky, but I don't have snow gear. 207 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:16,080 And so he had to go out there on his own. 208 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,640 And Derek stayed out there almost the whole day. 209 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:18,640 How long you stay out there? 210 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,920 I stayed out there at least three or four hours just walking and letting your recording 211 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,760 play and just, you know, looking for tracks. 212 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,600 And that's when I located tracks near where we left my stuff. 213 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,680 I was like, those are his prints. 214 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:35,080 Cause there's no one else out here and they're smaller than Cowardee prints. 215 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,320 They were his prints, you know, hindsight 2020. 216 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,160 I was like, he's been in the area. 217 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,040 He is still out here. 218 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:42,520 So that gave me hope. 219 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,280 But I was like, where did he go? 220 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:49,560 Yeah, cause now by this time we were at eight, I think it was like eight degrees. 221 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:52,640 And that was probably the high for that day. 222 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:53,920 Yeah, it was freezing. 223 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:59,200 And I just knew that when Derek came home without my dog and he brought the recording 224 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,360 back, I knew, I said, he's gone. 225 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:06,920 And I started, you know, to mourn him and make my peace and cry and get all that stuff 226 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:07,920 out of me. 227 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,200 So he was gone for three days at this point. 228 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,800 That's the longest any of them. 229 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,480 This is, this is day two. 230 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,680 Day three, I go back out again. 231 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:16,680 Okay. 232 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:21,080 Day three, I go out again and I drive around the neighborhood and there's a campsite right 233 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,080 across the street. 234 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:23,080 And I went to the campsite. 235 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,120 Hey, have you seen this little dog? 236 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:26,840 No, we haven't seen any dogs. 237 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:27,840 Who's out in this weather? 238 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:28,840 Is what the lady asked me. 239 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:30,440 I'm like, well, this happened a couple of days ago. 240 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,460 I'm like, well, you should be at home. 241 00:10:32,460 --> 00:10:34,180 So I drive down a little ravine. 242 00:10:34,180 --> 00:10:37,680 There's another small neighborhood and I knocked on, I did one of your moves. 243 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:41,640 I knocked on the door and it's like, no sir, I hadn't seen your dog. 244 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,920 So I went back to the property and I just walked the property again for another two 245 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,640 or three hours. 246 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,280 And this on day three, I saw no signs of nothing. 247 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,760 I didn't see bird tracks, coyote tracks. 248 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:53,760 I saw nothing. 249 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,640 I didn't even see his old tracks. 250 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:00,160 And that's when I realized, I think, you know, he didn't make it. 251 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,840 Because that night it got really cold, like negative five with the wind chill. 252 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,040 I said, there's no way he survived that. 253 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,780 There's just no way. 254 00:11:09,780 --> 00:11:13,560 Like three days of this weather, he didn't survive. 255 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:20,560 And Scout is, he was not the run of the litter, but he is definitely the smallest of the four. 256 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:21,560 He's husky. 257 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:22,800 He's a husky one. 258 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:23,800 And he's greedy. 259 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:24,800 He's thick. 260 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:25,800 He's a thick one. 261 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,800 He's a thick one. 262 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,800 But I just knew he was gone. 263 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:30,800 And me and London. 264 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,800 At the end of day three is when you start to mourn. 265 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:34,800 Yep. 266 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,760 And you know, we started to prepare ourselves and he's not coming home. 267 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,080 And then Derrick gets up the fourth day. 268 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,400 I'm going to look one more day, one more time. 269 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,520 And I was like, he ain't, he not there. 270 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:47,840 Like, all right, go ahead and go. 271 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:48,840 And Derrick went out there. 272 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,160 I leave the house about 9 a.m. 273 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:56,920 And I took my time because like it's freezing cold. 274 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:58,920 The roads are still bad. 275 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,600 I stopped at the pilot and got me a McDonald's biscuit and something. 276 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:03,600 Good grief. 277 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:04,600 Good grief. 278 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:05,600 I was hungry. 279 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,680 So I make my way down the little trail and I'm just driving. 280 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:10,680 I'm driving. 281 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:14,200 And then I get closer and closer to where we lost them. 282 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:19,600 And I pull up and I see this little tricolor beagle just sitting there looking at these 283 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:20,600 two hunters. 284 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,000 I'm like, is that Scout? 285 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,360 And he's just sitting there. 286 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,360 He's sitting there like he's involved in their conversation. 287 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,480 I'm like, shouldn't this dog be looking for me? 288 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:35,160 And I pull up and I get closer and closer and I look and it's Scout. 289 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,480 So on day four, I pull up and he's just waiting. 290 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:40,480 He's just chilling. 291 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,480 Sitting with these strangers. 292 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,400 Sitting with these strangers like he knows them. 293 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,920 And I'm like, why didn't they call? 294 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:46,920 What were the strangers doing? 295 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,040 Just chilling, sitting on the back of their pickup truck. 296 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:51,040 Having a conversation. 297 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,560 He was sitting there in the middle of it like he knew what they were talking about. 298 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:56,120 Like one dude would say something, he would look at him. 299 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,120 Then the other guy would start talking and he would look at him. 300 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,720 I'm like, what is he doing? 301 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,720 Like shouldn't he be like, you know, looking for me? 302 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,640 Like he's just sitting there waiting like, hey guys, come on, pick me up, put me in this 303 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:07,640 truck. 304 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:08,640 I'm ready to go home. 305 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:09,640 I'll go with you guys. 306 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:10,640 These other people left me. 307 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,840 That's the way he looked like, hey, okay, you guys don't see me. 308 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,160 So what happened when you walked up to these people? 309 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:16,280 I didn't even get a chance. 310 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,200 I opened the door. 311 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:19,200 He looked. 312 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,880 He just ran and jumped in the truck. 313 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:23,960 I didn't even get a chance to speak to these dudes. 314 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,800 I opened the door and when I opened that door, he looked and he just ran and jumped in the 315 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:29,800 truck. 316 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,200 Got in the back of the truck. 317 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,760 And I was like, how long has he been around? 318 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,160 He's like, he's been around here all morning running rabbits. 319 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:38,160 All morning? 320 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,160 Yeah. 321 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:42,280 He was like, he's been up here all morning running rabbits, ruining our deer hunt. 322 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,280 I was like, oh, my bad. 323 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,600 And I was like, well, you guys weren't going to call? 324 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,240 We figured all these cars, he belonged to somebody out here. 325 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,480 I was like, oh, well, okay. 326 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:54,480 Good thought process. 327 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,040 But still, when you pulled up this morning, because he told me, when we pulled up this 328 00:13:58,040 --> 00:13:59,700 morning, he was running the rabbit. 329 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:00,700 And they were the first ones out there. 330 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:02,080 He said, we were the first ones out here. 331 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:03,080 I'm like, well. 332 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:04,080 If he was running a rabbit, there's no cars. 333 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:05,880 You should have known there were no cars out here. 334 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,880 He was out here by himself. 335 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:10,600 But some people don't care. 336 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,280 Yeah, because he has, like I said, our numbers are on his collar. 337 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,280 So I was a little perturbed when Derrick first told me that, but I was very, very happy because 338 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:20,740 Derrick FaceTimed me. 339 00:14:20,740 --> 00:14:23,160 He tried to do the whole thing, well, I couldn't find him thing. 340 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:25,840 It didn't last long because he ended up FaceTiming me. 341 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,120 It's like Derrick never FaceTimed. 342 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,040 And he shows me Scout laying there. 343 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:35,640 So when he gets Scout home, Scout is in bad shape. 344 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,400 He ripped up his thigh and his horse. 345 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:41,400 Like his bark is like. 346 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,760 Yeah, because that dude was hunting the whole time. 347 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,800 Yeah, that's how he sound. 348 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:52,320 And he was angry at his brothers. 349 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,540 When we brought him home, we brought the boys, we brought his brothers in to see him. 350 00:14:58,540 --> 00:15:00,760 The boys all spread out. 351 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:09,560 They spread out in the living room, one at each corner, and Scout barged at every last 352 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:10,560 one of them. 353 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,960 And they all just kind of moved to their own wall and just stared at him. 354 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,320 And they tried to creep up on him. 355 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,320 And he just, woo. 356 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,880 Maybe it was like a Mexican standoff. 357 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:20,880 I don't know. 358 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,360 It was like they were just standing there. 359 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:27,600 It was so like he was telling them off. 360 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,400 Now you know, Scout has a special bond with Ranger. 361 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:38,640 Now he did bark at Ranger, but he did let Ranger creep up enough to sniff him and lay 362 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:39,640 with him. 363 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:46,120 But the other two, Tracker and Chase, they couldn't get close to him at all. 364 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,720 He was angry. 365 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:53,720 So when we got him to the vet, we find out that he contracted Lyme disease. 366 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,000 Don't know how, in the middle of the winter? 367 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,280 Well, he must have had it at some point. 368 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,800 And it was identified then. 369 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,120 Like I said, he tore open his inside thigh. 370 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,080 So he got some antibiotics for that. 371 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,080 He got some antibiotics. 372 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:15,760 He has, you know, they gave him a special diet because he lost weight. 373 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,680 He liked it because he got to stay in the house for a week. 374 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:19,680 All by himself. 375 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:20,680 All by himself. 376 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,160 We made them other jokers sleeping in the garage. 377 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,240 He was like, I'm the baby now. 378 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:26,240 We put him by the fire. 379 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,640 Because my thing is whenever one of the dogs go missing, they get to lay in front of the 380 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:31,640 fireplace. 381 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:32,640 Treat him like a baby. 382 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,000 And they have their blankets and their toys. 383 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,520 And so he was spoiled for the week. 384 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:42,520 The crazy part about it is this man survived that. 385 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:47,560 And we always say, if I had one wish, I think I would use it on that. 386 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,280 I want him to tell me what happened. 387 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,280 Yes. 388 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,120 I want him to give me 45 minutes where he can speak and tell me what happened, why he 389 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:55,120 was gone. 390 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:56,120 Yeah. 391 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:57,120 It would be amazing. 392 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:58,120 What did he eat? 393 00:16:58,120 --> 00:16:59,120 Like how did he? 394 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,920 How did he survive the temperatures? 395 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,080 It was freezing in the snow. 396 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,240 And we got, I think it was like 10 inches, maybe 11 inches of snow. 397 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:08,240 It was a lot. 398 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:09,240 Almost a foot of snow. 399 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:10,240 Almost taller than him. 400 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,240 It probably, yeah. 401 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,240 In some places. 402 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,240 Some places it probably was. 403 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,320 And then you can have a factor in the wind chill. 404 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:17,320 The wind was blowing. 405 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:22,920 I think one night it got to negative 10, something like that, and he was out in the woods. 406 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:24,840 That is amazing that he survived that. 407 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,080 No food, no shelter. 408 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:28,080 The water was frozen. 409 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:29,080 It was frozen. 410 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:30,080 So he had no water. 411 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,800 Like how did this dude survive? 412 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:32,800 We do not know. 413 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:37,760 But then after he came home, we started to really observe Scout. 414 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:42,160 And like we said before, Scout is the one that can open up cages. 415 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,800 He's the one that's always watching you and learning. 416 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,640 He's the one that catches bats. 417 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,480 Catches bats and catches birds. 418 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,120 He done caught two bats in the past week. 419 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,160 The past two weeks he caught a bat. 420 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,160 He catches birds. 421 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,160 He's poop goodness. 422 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:03,160 So maybe he survived by being a predator. 423 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,680 Being a baby wolf. 424 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,320 Because every time I look up, he's killing something in our backyard. 425 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:14,240 And I'm like, how is it that he can kill stuff in those other three camps? 426 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,280 Maybe he got trained by a coyote while he was in the woods. 427 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:18,440 He became part of the pack. 428 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,920 I just want to know what happened. 429 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,600 We need to make a Disney movie about Scout's survival. 430 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:28,240 It'll take place in the Yukon of Alaska. 431 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:29,240 Oh my gosh. 432 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:30,240 We're going to make it all. 433 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:31,240 A beagle? 434 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:32,240 We're going to make it all. 435 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,560 We're going to make it happen. 436 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:35,920 He getting fish out the river too? 437 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:37,720 He going to be hanging out with bears. 438 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:38,720 Oh gosh. 439 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,200 He going to be hanging out with mountain lions, leopards. 440 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,640 And somehow we're going to put a lion in this movie. 441 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:45,640 Oh boy. 442 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:46,640 No, baby. 443 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:47,640 This is an amazing story. 444 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,480 The survival of Scout. 445 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,040 Scout is a survivor. 446 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,040 Would y'all watch that? 447 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,040 I would. 448 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,600 I would watch that, no doubt. 449 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:02,960 But that's Scout's survival episode. 450 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:03,960 Scout the survivor. 451 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:04,960 All right, you guys. 452 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:05,960 Until next time. 453 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:06,960 We'll talk to y'all later. 454 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:18,240 If you made it this far, you are the true champion. 455 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,560 You could have been anywhere, doing anything, but you instead chose to spend your time with 456 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:23,560 us. 457 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,840 And for that, we say thank you. 458 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:26,840 I'm Derek. 459 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:27,840 I'm Makayla. 460 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,120 Rate, like, and subscribe. 461 00:19:30,120 --> 00:19:32,440 Do good, be good. 462 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:37,120 Until next time.