Posted on 08/18/2012 11:45:21 AM PDT by ColdOne
Washburn and his wife were incredulous at how this dog, tucked into a tiny nook between rocks, could have ended up where it was. The whimpering dog was, as Washburn said, "in awful shape." He was convinced it would have died if left without food or water for much longer. The couple tried to coax the dog up out of the rocks and down the mountain but it was clear the dog was too injured and weak to move.
"We knew we weren't going to be able to get her out by herself," said Washburn. "Her paws were completely raw and her elbows were torn up."
Washburn got together a group of eight volunteers and the group headed back up the mountain that Monday morning. The group found the dog with all of its wounds Washburn had tried to bandage reopened. The rocks around the dog were covered in blood, and the dog was back cowering beneath the surrounding rocks.
The group of eight hikers traveled through a full-blown snowstorm that broke out during their hike. Eventually, after a nine-hour rescue mission, the group successfully managed to bring back the broken and bruised dog in a hiker's oversized backpack.
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From what I read in the article, the dog was injured and could no longer walk. Her paws were cut up from the rocks.
The guy is not the brightest bulb on the tree by imposing such a jaunt on the dog without the proper equipment. He had to have noticed she was having difficulty walking before she went down and perhaps turned back before that happened.
Given the fact the guy isn’t too bright, it doesn’t excuse him not going back to try to find her. Since she was immobile, she probably wasn’t to far from where he left her.
“Paul supporter”.
Need I say more?
Thank you for proving you belong in Seattle.
Life isn’t a cartoon, unless you live in a city where unreality reigns.
Here’s the rub, though. Poor little senile dog lived for one thing, to follow me up the driveway to the mailbox everyday. I have no doubt when she saw that gate open that she thought she was following me and just kept going.
I guess the guilt comes from the fact that I wasn’t real fond of the dog in the first place, she had ZERO personality, but at least I looked for her! Can’t imagine not even bothering.
... and thank you for proving you shouldn't be trusted with a burnt-out match, much less something as special as a dog.
Again: dismissed.
“”He [Ortolani] made no initial attempt. After three days, he thought the dog was deceased so he made no attempts to reclaim the dog,” Page said.”
I would walk into Hell to save my dogs.
Literally.
Even if I knew they were dead, I’d still go back for their body.
No dog left behind.
Same here!
‘Most of those saying otherwise have never been in the position of needing to worry about losing their life.”
Bullsh*t.
One of my dogs jumped on my chest to revive me after I went unconscious from smoke inhalation when the wood stove back drafted while I was asleep.
Gagging, choking, dazed and confused, I got her and _five other big dogs_ out of that house and sat huddled under a blanket with them in the sub-zero February night, waiting for the smoke to clear out of the house.
I wound up with double pneumonia that nearly killed me but I got my dogs out.
I’m a 5’3”, 100 lb shrimp and *I* managed.
I love the pic of the Dobie standing guard over the sleeping soldier.
Then I read articles like this and cry.
He didn’t bother to go back and look to be sure, now did he?
I would have, immediately.
I’d love to be on the jury of his “peers”.
Amen.
[though you could’ve just shortened that to “a real man”]
:)
It was cruel and inhumane to bring the dog up there to begin with. I would throw the book at this guy.
You can interpret my words any way you like, but I think you know what I mean. Position of responsibility, leadership roll,really bad place, time and situation. You don’t get to run away and hide from your responsibility. You accept the risks along with the perquisites, you adapt and come up with solutions to bad situations. You are also responsible for fore thought and planning before committing to a situation that could have unpleasant consequences for those who are depending on your decisions. This piece of crap did not plan or prepare for something that was entirely foreseeable, then when things got tough he cut and ran. I wouldn’t put this coward in charge of digging slit trenches much less any one or any things life.
“but dying with your dog isn’t my idea of nobility.”
He’d do it for me so I could do no less for him.
It’s an honor and loyalty thing.
Maybe you don’t understand.
God bless you.
If he wasn't ready for an overnighter in the snow, he's a Darwin Award waiting to happen. If he got scared off a mountain by the prospect of a July snowstrom, then he had no business being up there. Hunker down with the dog.
I've carried a 120 lb dog, writhing and yowling, for a quarter mile at a jog. Pure adrenaline though, I saw a boar and didn't want to see him gored, he was still a “puppy” being a Lab, despite being two years old and quite the big boy. My back was sore for days, but I'd do it again.
Anyone who'd take their dog into harms way and abandon it is a poor excuse for a human being, imho. There were other hikers. There was help if he cared to ask. He didn't, just left her there, abandoned and cold, to die. Then, after the danger had passed, for days, he didn't go to retrieve her.
He deserves to be charged with animal cruelty because what he did (and didn't do) was cruel to the point of depraved indifference.
I know.
That one photo says it all.
Some people are not worthy of their dog’s devotion.
Others give all they have to try to be.
I just had to put down my old Pookie and Odin, God bless him, lacking proper arms with which to hug me, has spent the last 48 hours laying behind me on the back of the sofa with his neck wrapped around mine, tightly and his head pressed against my chest.
Bless his big heart, he’s trying so hard to console me as best he can with what he has to work with.
I don’t deserve him and I know it.
Not a property dispute at all. He voluntarily discarded his property.
SEMPR FI
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