I got up, fed the dogs, and put them in the backyard to do their business like usual. Then I made my husband and myself some breakfast, and as I sat down to eat, I realized the dogs should have asked to come in by now. So I left my breakfast and went and whistled for them, no response. I whistled and called again, and nothing again. I went out and looked around the corner. MEEP MEEP RED ALERT GATE OPEN DOGS GONE!
So I came back in, bellowed that the dogs were gone to my husband, and we booked it to the front door. He went running down the street one way, and I went running down another way. A few blocks later I realized that my bedroom slippers suck all kinds of arse for running in, and also that I had forgotten my phone so if my husband found them, he wouldn't be able to call off my search. I headed back to the house at a dead sprint to change shoes and get my phone.
When I got there, my man was in the car just pulling out of the driveway (which meant that someone else had found one of the dogs and called the number on his/her collar, which would call my husband to them. He would take the car because he wouldn't have known how far away she got.) When I got close enough to see the yard, I found Dante cowering in the yard, looking terrified. (I was still on the other side of the street.) He saw me and started running across the street to me, I realized he had most certainly not looked both ways first so I did a quick check and then sprinted across to him to get him out of the road. Poor kid was absolutely quivering, something scared the bejeesus out of him, he gave zero darns about anything except getting to me as soon as he saw me.
My husband noticed me running up and saw that I'd gotten Dante, he stopped the car. I went over and he said the people across and kitty-corner to us had captured Pixel and called him. I took Dante inside, he went for Pix. But then he didn't come back for all of 3 minutes and I was all "that's taking way too danged long, where's my baby girl" so I stepped out and looked over there. Our car was still in their driveway, but nothing was happening at the house. I walked out to the road to see better, and saw my husband all the way at the opposite end of the street walking back with Pixel in his arms. I ran to meet them, and he said the moment the neighbor opened the door to let him in to get Pix, she had darted out and taken off. He'd had to chase her to the other end of the street (she's a fast little sun-of-a-gun. Daughter-of-a-gun. Whatever.) He was late to work by this time, so I gathered up Pixel and took her home and he went for the car to go to work.
In conclusion, before 9 this morning, coffee, and breakfast, I broke the law about 5 times jaywalking (jayrunning!) across roads, sprinted more than I have since high school, and killed my feet by running in bedroom slippers. I'm too darned old for this!
But I'm so, so happy both my darlings are here and safe. <3 Thank goodness for awesome neighbors who catch beagles and thank goodness for Dante being a pansy and coming straight home as soon as something scared him. Thank goodness they didn't get hit by a car, running around streets in the middle of morning rush hour. So happy! So relieved! Both!