My dog ran away today

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Came home from my part time job at the fish and chip shop to find the family dog had escaped. This is the third time it's happened and I can't think why. I'm going spare with worry and it's making my acne flare up.

My dogs make the grea escape very often.

Try petlynx.com I work at an SPCA and it was helpful and call shelters and bylaw offices dogs are very good for returning to their homes.

My dog, Laura, loves to run away

You don't know why? Dogs get bored, have sensitive hearing so if someone walks past then of they go. Dogs run away all the time, but they come back or have to be chased down. Some dogs enjoy the chase. Mine certainly did.
My dog always got out. It was impossible to keep her in the backyard. She had to be taken to the pound because we didn't know what to do, that and my mother physically abused her.

I'm sure your dog will be fine, especially if he/she has run away before and returned.

My dog runs out of the house at any chance he gets, but he just goes to the end of the road before coming back. He just does it to get on our nerves, LOL.

how do you know he "ran" way rather than walked?

maybe your dog is not desexed and very much wishes to find a partner.
maybe your yard is barren of things that interest your dog.

when i was a child, me and my mother and father used to go to our farm (230 miles away) every 2nd weekend. my mother had a black "toy"poodle that was clipped regularly to give it a little ball of fur on it's tail and balls of uncut fur on it's feet, and it's head also had a pattern of hairdressing where it's face was shaved, but it had a crown of fur on it's head. it always smelled of perfume and excreta.

one day on the way to the farm, we stopped at a petrol station, and some kids in an adjacent car noticed the poodle and stated talking to it from their seats in their car.

my father was about 65 and my mother was about 57 and i was 12 and AS and we were not very exciting, so the poodle ran out of my mothers open door to the car with the kids in it, and it ran inside their car and it was delighted to "have a new family".

when my mother went to get it back, she poodle snarled and snapped at her and she did not want to come back with us.
i never really liked that poodle much. some dogs are not loyal when they see a better way of life.

i am not saying that your dog is acting in any way like our one did, but i guess if an animal likes to live with you it will stay, and if it does not it will escape if it can.

A lot of people are like that too!

Some dogs are wanderers. It doesn't always mean they're unhappy or anything. The dog I grew up with was a German shepherd/husky mix, and apparently huskies tend to like to wander. We'd go nuts worrying whenever he got out, and run after him trying to find him, and he'd run away from us, but I think he thought it was like a game. If we couldn't catch him, he'd eventually come back. As upsetting as it was, it wasn't out of disloyalty or unhappiness.. he thought it was fun, he didn't understand that we were afraid something would happen to him.

yeah, i've heard huskies love to run, run, run, far away. it's in their genetics, hence their use in the Iditarod. i always wanted a husky but i'd never be able to afford it, plus allergies. Bleah. it'd be so nice to curl up with by the fireplace.