Posted on 08/18/2012 5:45:57 PM PDT by AlmaKing
She was WAITING for him to come back and he NEVER did. No food, no water.
She never would have left him.
He needs to let her go. Again. And live with what he has done.
RegulatorCountry, I appreciate your excellent observations and commentary, and I wholeheartedly agree.
Well, isn’t this nice EXPANDED, heart rending, suddenly very detailed, melodramatic and poetic account of the original story?
Disney should buy the rights to it.
I call BS.
He’s knows he’s crap and is back-pedaling like hell.
What happened to the “poor kid” he was so worried about, for whom he ‘sacrificed’ his dog?
Now the ‘poor kid’ was humping the dog up and down the mountain with ropes and pulleys?
And where was he the 8 days afterwards?
I hope smart people keep “his” dog.
[anybody here ever watch “Eight Below”? It was based on a true story and that guy didn’t rest until he found his 7 surviving dogs..in the freaking Antarctic!]
All I’ve got is a sudden “new version” of the “story”.
Not buying it.
[And Biden really didn’t mean “chains”]
Back pedal.
He’s suddenly, globally infamous and realizes his ass is in a sling.
So, after doing nothing useful for all that time, he pens a sad fairy tale.
Yeah.
We’re stupid enough to buy it.
Good master and strong, handsome, happy Jack Russells.
Eaker - I’m with YOU. Thanks.
The original version, without out the repentant “sack cloth and ashes” BS added in:
The bigger question is, why are *you* so determined to defend him?
I find that very...interesting.
When I read your word, “pack”, it brought tears to my eyes. My “H-pack” was large and happy, and now they are hiking “a path too far”. Maybe it’s time I form a new one. :-(
Makes ya wonder.
And there’s this:
Author: Unknown
If tears could build a stairway,
and memories a lane.
I would walk right up to Heaven
and bring you back again.
No farewell words were spoken,
No time to say “Goodbye”.
You were gone before I knew it,
and only God knows why.
My heart still aches with sadness,
and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to love you -
No one can ever know.
But now I know you want me
to mourn for you no more;
To remember all the happy times
life still has much in store.
Since you’ll never be forgotten,
I pledge to you today~
A hollowed place within my heart
is where you’ll always stay.
How many of us would gladly build that stairway to have our beloved dogs back?
And this schmuck won’t walk up a friggin’ hill he’s climbed *dozens* of times, already.
Thanks for posting HuskyRunner’s comment, Eaker.
Bingo, Sal.
Yup.
No doubt the GSD was in search of her owner the entire time. Kinda’ heartbreaking.
I’m not a position to determine with whom Missy should stay, but given GSD loyalty and bonding, it would probably be best for Missy to go back to the original owner as much as it pains me to say that — assuming the original owner doesn’t normally exhibit this kind of negligence.
Now, you’ve gone and done it. Missing my “Pack”, tonight.
I just ended 13 months of helping a dog with degenerative myelopathy up and down and outside to potty, sometimes when I had to literally lift her 80 pound self with the feebleness of my own 100 pound self, [bad discs, arthritis and all] simply because, other than not being able to walk very well, she was happy, bright, alert, ate like a pig, loved her physical & massage therapy necessary to keep her legs limber and had a decent quality of life.
That quality ended on Monday and she let me know.
Thursday night, the vet came and she ‘went out’ even before she got ‘the second shot’.
I -felt- her leave and she slipped from her now-useless shell with such ease.
She knew why the vet was there and for the first time in her 10 year life, she did not fear him.
I spent 3 hours with her before he came, cradling her big goofy-silly head and we shared cheese, memories, love and tears and she was so much stronger and fearless than I was.
I carried that dog for over a year.
If carrying her down one lousy mountain would’ve saved her, I’d have done it, no matter how much it hurt me.
I’m sick of the excuses being made for this bastard.
Tough sh*t. He abandoned his dog and strangers went out and got her. He deserves the grief and loss of the dog. He made one rookie mistake after another and keeps making them. I just got back a few minutes ago tonight from that neck of the woods. I’ll unpack the rest of the gear tomorrow and do a gear check. What didn’t that puss have for proper gear that he was so afraid of a summer storm and left his dog to die? He’s an idiot, a liar, a coward, and an ass for leaving his dog to die. No one with half a brain takes a dog to that area without the booties, without proper storm gear for himself and the dog, and without knowledge of the weather for the day. No one, but he did. Now he wants to make himself out as the victim. Piss on him!
*standing ovation*
Wow.
Let my friends tell me *my* dog is “probably dead” and see if ~I~ listen to them.
[I’d get new, better friends]
Dude’s just gotta shift the blame every which way *and* loose, doesn’t he?
Now “his friends” kept him from going back for *his* dog?
He has to be a liberal.
They excel at passing the buck and dodging responsibility.
[or he’s Alma...pick one]
Oh, Sal, I’m so sorry for your loss. Bless you for taking such good care of your doggie. I know it was love, but still...
What a beautiful way to go, all full of cheese and tears and laughter and resting in the arms of love. Prayers for you and hugs...
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