A 'princess' Rottweiler has now safely returned to her family after a 25-day chase in which her owners were searching for her across the county.
Five-year-old Beau first went missing from the Lawshall area on Saturday, April 22.
Owner Tazmin Hobbs, 22, said: "She's not your typical dog.
"She sleeps with a pillow and a blanket every night and really loves a Starbucks pup-cup or some chicken nuggets.
"We were heartbroken when she went missing."
After making desperate pleas for help in the return of their beloved pooch on Facebook, they started to receive sightings of Beau from neighbours.
"She's a friendly dog but I knew she'd be very scared," added Ms Hobbs.
"She has a bad leg and hip, so she would have been running around on three legs."
Thinking she had been spooked by a delivery driver knocking on the window, it seems that Beau managed to escape through a hole in the garden fence.
Overnight, they left Beau's bed and Ms Hobbs' clothes on their doorstep in the hopes that their scent might bring the frightened dog back home.
"We're not even from Suffolk, we're from Southery in Norfolk," said Ms Hobbs.
"We were just staying with my partner Jake went she went missing.
"But even though we're strangers down here, so many people got involved with helping to look for her."
A few days later, the search moved through Thorpe Morieux, Cockfield and Lavenham as scores of concerned residents helped track her down.
Drawing on the help of Sam French from the Finding Ipswich Dogs Organisation (FIDO), they laid out food traps, shredded clothes and signs as Beau travelled further and further away from her home.
"I began to think the worst when there were no sightings for five or six days at a time," said Ms Hobbs.
"I was just absolutely heartbroken."
But, after a heart-wrenching 25 days of searching, Beau decided to bring herself home to Lawshall.
Scratching on the door to be let in, a friend quickly grabbed her before she could change her mind and called her worried owner.
"I broke down in tears when I heard that she'd come back," said Ms Hobbs.
"I thought there could be a chance of us managing to trap her, but I had no idea she could just bring herself home.
"I dropped everything and left straight away. It just didn't feel real when I had her back in my arms."
With her furthest sighting being more than 15 miles away from Lawshall, Beau's panic-fuelled journey across Suffolk had finally come to an end.
"She's very tired and hungry but that's nothing that a good meal and night's sleep can't sort out," she added.
Resuming her role as the "princess" of the household, Beau has been equipped with a new collar and tracker to ensure she doesn't take off an another adventure any time soon.
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Ms Hobbs and her partner Jake wanted to thank everyone who helped search for Beau and share their posts.
"A special thank you needs to go to Sam French, who kept our spirits high," she added.
"We've also made friends with AJ Lamination who printed all our posters out for us and Give a Dog a Bone who donated boxes and boxes of smelly treats to help tempt Beau out of hiding.
"I'm just so happy to have our girl back home."
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