Sophie: dog overboard

Emma Pearse

When Jan and Dave Griffith's beloved cattle dog Sophie fell overboard from the family yacht during rough weather she feared the worst. But Sophie a true Aussie battler wasn't going to give up that easily. She swam six miles through shark-infested waters to a remote Whitsunday island where she survived for five months before being miraculously reunited with her amazed owners. Sophie a highly domesticated dog had been living ferally - and surviving. Yet one glimpse of her owners when they were reunited was enough for the old Sophie to re-emerge.

This is an amazing inspirational story of survival loyalty and what binds animals and humans together.

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