For nine days, Bud the dog was lost in Tasmania’s rugged Tarkine wilderness. But amazingly, after more than a week in the remote, untouched corner of the Apple Isle he was found safe and well - if a little mangy-looking - and reunited with his owner.

Bud's odyssey began when his owner, Irene Baksheev, and her partner Garth Stevens went on a camping trip and stopped at a campsite off a 4WD track on the Whyte River.

Bud was lost in the wilderness for nine days.

She’d let her two Labrador cross dogs out of the car to have a sniff but only one returned when the time came to leave the campsite. Bud was still out there, somewhere.

‘‘We were screaming out his name,’’ Ms Baksheev said.