A family dog has reportedly survived more than four months living off goats on a northern Queensland island.Sophie Tucker, a cattle dog belonging to the Griffith family, was presumed dead after falling from their boat off the coast of Mackay in November.
But the Courier Mail reports the dog swam over 9km to St Bees Island on the southern end of the Whitsundays, where she was spotted by several locals.
Friends of the family suggested the dog — who island rangers thought was wild — might be their pet.
After it was captured last week, the Griffith family met the rangers' boat as it returned to the mainland and were amazed to find it was indeed Sophie inside the cage.
"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage … they let her out and she just about flattened us,'' Jan Griffith was reported as saying.
"She wriggled around like a mad thing.''
Mrs Griffith said some locals believed the dog was regularly swimming back and forth several hundred metres between St Bees and Keswick Island to hunt.
"She had looked really poor [on the island], the story was, and then all of a sudden she started to look good and it was when the rangers had found baby goat carcasses,'' she said.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/798212/castaway-dog-hunted-goats-on-island
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