[appleseed]

This is an amazing story. This little dude is incredible.

Picture is from the Daily Dunklin.

[Red_Devil 232]

Any word on the two dogs that helped him?

[appleseed]

Self Reliant/Survivalist ping list

[bonfire]

The reporter on FOX yesterday was choking up as he was telling the story. He had me crying right along with him.

[Smokin' Joe]

Neat. Keep in mind that a three year old will eat/drink things an adult might pale at. Truly, at that age what does not kill you makes you stronger.

It is good to see a happy ending to the story.

[LibWhacker]

Dang! He’s already half Navy Seal!

[Sherman Logan]

He survived rain and ... mountain lions...

The MO Department of Conservation classifies the ML as extirpated in MO. No evidence of a stable breeding population, although a very occasional wandering individual turns up.

[Doe Eyes]

From the article:

"If that was an urban little kid who just got lost out there, that kid would probably be dead," he said. "This kid has, in a sense, been training for just this scenario."

Stripping down to a tee shirt and one shoe is a survival technique most citified kids don't know about.

[theDentist]

survived for 52 hours alone in the untamed woods of Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest.

Wow! That long for a little boy is incredible.

By the way: How do you 'tame' the woods of a forest?

[bvw]

Alrighty -— when is the Discovery channel “Survival Tot” series starting? Can’t wait for the Kalahari Desert episode.

[appleseed]

I have a buddy from Missouri. A few years back after hunting season He left me some deer sausage with a note. It was good! I saw him a few days later and he had a big bandage on his nose. He said when he was skinning the deer, he had it hung up, and when he was drawing his knife down it slipped and hit him in the nose, taking out a big chunk of skin. What was troubling he never did find the chunk of skin. I hope it didn’t up in the sausage. He’s got a big scar and part of his nose missing.

People from Missouri are freakin tough.

[TigersEye]

Joshua managed to unbolt a deadlock on the back door of his family's mobile home just before noon on Monday. He survived rain and two chilly nights, ponds and creeks, hills and boulders, ticks, bears, mountain lions and snakes. He had no food or water, and by the time he was found three miles from home, was wearing only a T-shirt and one sneaker.

It sounds like he left a wake of destruction in his path.
Is there any wildlife left alive in that part of Missouri?

Maybe he can come kill that heron eating your koi, pandy. ;^)