Posted on 08/06/2015 4:09:58 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A PIG hunter hiked through the bush for two days, carrying his wounded dog in his arms, after it was attacked by a crocodile along a remote Cape York river.
Wayne Best, a bushie, had been out hunting with his bull arab/greyhound cross Choco along the banks of the Mitchell River, about 300km northwest of Cairns, last Friday morning.
The 3½-year-old dog had chased a feral pig close to the river, and cornered it against the bank, when a large saltwater crocodile lunged out of the waterway and grabbed the solid canine by its rear.
“It went for the dog and just got him by the arse end, picked him up and just shook him and then went under water,’’ Mr Best said.
“That was all that I saw of him.
“About two minutes later, (Choco) pops up again and I didn’t see the croc, and he swam back in (to land).
“I just grabbed him out of the water and threw him up on the bank there.
“I had to take him back to camp, splinted him up and fixed a few holes in him, in his belly and stuff like that.”
With the nearest community about 100km away, and no vehicle of his own, Mr Best had no choice but start walking through the scrub towards the Burke Developmental Road.
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“I walked a long way for him, but I would have walked a million and one miles for him if need be.”
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Just read the article again. While I certainly think Wayne Best deserves huge credit for what he’s done, I just want to draw people’s attention to what the article says about his mate, Shane Waymouth who picked them up and drove them the final distance into town - it says that’s he also joined Mr Best in looking for fruit picking work to help pay the (now-covered) vet bill. That is a mate - not his dog, but he’s looking to help straight away.
That's not a croc, that's a polar bar!
Or else global warming has gotten really bad.
Hurray for both Choco and his brave owner. Contrast and compare this guy with the subhumans caught taping their dogs’ mouths shut and other horrific abuses. THEY deserve to be thrown to this croc.
I thought for sure the old croc would go for the bacon instead of the dog!
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