Posted on 02/08/2008 6:01:20 AM PST by libstripper
HELENA, Mont. — Tom Pick was backcountry skiing with his 3-year-old black Labrador Lizzie in southwestern Montana when a small avalanche carried the dog down the side of the mountain.
She disappeared from his reach and into the swirling snow. Pick searched for two days with no sign of Lizzie — haunted by the sight of the dog's eyes gazing up at him as she fell.
"I'll probably always see her eyes just looking up at me as she slid down into that thing," Pick said in an interview this week. "You could tell that she was scared."
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When I was growing up my dad had a golden retriever named Barney. I’m too young to remember but apparently when I was two I wondered off from our house up in the hills. When my parents found me guess who had stayed by my side the entire time. My family has had a golden from that day forward.
Is it just pits that are banned by Miami Dade County, or pit crosses, too?
So far pure pits. They fine you $500 daily!
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