Shipwrecked dog found after four months as castaway

A pet dog swept off a sailboat in choppy seas off Australia was found alive four months later on a remote island – and returned to her family, who had thought she was dead.

The four-year-old blue heeler, named Sophie Tucker, was captured by rangers last week on St Bees Island in northern Queensland state, nearly six miles from where she was washed off the sailboat in November, owner Jan Griffith said.