Posted on 11/13/2013 7:08:58 AM PST by chessplayer
If you were stranded in the wilderness, your supplies gone, and you were about to starve to death, could you kill your best friend? That's the heartbreaking dilemma one man faced when he found himself trapped in the Canadian wilderness with no food. At the beginning of his planned three month trek, Marco Lavoie, who was hiking with his best pal, his dog, had his camp rations and canoe destroyed by a bear. But his faithful pooch saved his life by chasing the bear off. He would be "rewarded" three days later by having his own life taken -- by his beloved owner.
3 days??
The man is an idiot...To bad the dog didn’t eat him.
He was ‘starving’ in just 3 days?
What a wimp.
And my answer is not just no but HELL NO.
Yeah, really.
POS.
The wrong animal died.
I’m in line with you.
I believe it is safe to assume that this story is a classic example of WWOD. The man facing hunger glanced at his dog and said to himself, "What would Obama do?"
Well played.
Diogenes, do you know the origin of the word “cynic”?
:)
I don't let them chase bunnies anymore but occasionally, they, the PPM or the Dobes will hand me a nice, fresh mouse.
Dobermans are excellent hunters.
My teen-years Dobe put my dad's obscenely expensive, highly trained Brittany Spaniel to shame.
His sire had a field championship...and yes, that means a ~hunting~ title.
He killed and ate his dog after 3 days acording to the article
Rabbits must be incredibly stupid to keep coming back day after day.
Does 'TheDuke'sGhost' know the origin of 'bad-ass movie cowboy'?
You could ask Snopes, but you'd be a poor speller.
By the way, Marco Lavoie's best friend has visited him in hospital, and has provided a more accurate timeline and detailed description of his trip.
He was armed; the troubles began about two months into the trip; he had injured his ankle; out of ammo; dog may have been close to death himself; when found, he was in a very treacherous area of the river; he was hallucinatory, barefoot, hypothermic, in 3 feet of snow and freezing temps.
It seems as though Marco is a bit of a loner, and cared more for the dog than most people. He wants to train any future dogs as search and rescue dogs.
Maybe being doglike is a good thing, eh?
After leaving civilization from the Rose Garden, and living in the wilderness away from his safe haven with his dog Bo for 3 days, he ate the dog, and a half day latter, he reached Pennsylvania Ave,....
So he went in a circle. Which makes a lot of sense to me. He fumbles and stumbles....hopefully back to Kenya.
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