[Mr Rogers]

“...and leaving a loved one to die — alone and afraid — in the cold and the wild.”

A dog that weighs over 100 lbs, on a 14,000’ mountain?

If the dog refuses to move, and you don’t have both special equipment and lots of help, then the dog AIN’T coming down. If it were me, I would go back, but it would take blind luck to find the dog a few days after the storm. The rescuers were only able to do so because the dog became too weak to move on its own from where one person stumbled upon it.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

There's a vast, yawning and (for most folks, at any rate) readily comprehensible difference between someone dying of natural causes, and leaving a loved one to die -- alone and afraid -- in the cold and the wild.

A dog that weighs over 100 lbs, on a 14,000’ mountain?

Again: "[...] for most folks..."

[fortheDeclaration]

But they did find it didn't they?

Stop defending the indefensible!

[ladyrustic]

The dog was lame and couldn’t walk. The owner would have found her if he would have returned to rescue her... but he chose not to. And now he wants the dog back. The nerve...