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.
Indeed ... 3 days is pretty quick. Survival Rule of Threes: 3 minutes without air; 3 hours without shelter; 3 days without water; 3 weeks without food; 3 months without hope.
You can go a weeks without food and still survive. I took a NOLS course in the seventies and back then they had you pack out four hard days without food to show that you can. It isn’t pleasant, but shelter, warmth and water are what is vital for short-term and mid-term survival.
They benefit by helping us to hunt for our food or protect our property. He and the dog could have worked out a hunting method. The dog understood the role. Only Muslim president would think to eat the dog. After only three days, he killed the dog. He was far from starvation.
“3 hours without shelter”
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That goofy comment always mystified me. If we’re talking about being stranded in extremely harsh conditions (below zero or above 110), then yeah. Maybe.
Woof.
I’ve gone 8 days without any food or water (had IVs for fluids). You’d be weak but no way would I be ready to eat my dog after only 3 days.
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The dog senses his desparation and skidaddles. The man dies.
Though human life is of course more valuable than animal life, I still find that version more satisfying.
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Stupid, yes. But he survived despite that, thus this was the right decision.
I’m ambivalent.
I woulda for sure eaten my horse...even tastes good.
But my dog...I dunno.
Shame he didn’t have a couple of kids with him.
I know, and have fasted myself for over a week at a time and never thought about eating any of my dogs :) Seems like he was ill-prepared all around...
/johnny
Did the bear run off with his fishing equipment??? his gun?? his knife??? the bear ate 3 weeks of rations???
He's an idiot who should have his picture posted at the APA and Human Society.
Good catch...after only 3 days.
You are right.
man I have gone over a week with almost nothing...it’s not fun but can be done fairly easy unless one is diabetic etc
literally a week with bilge water..one row of saltines and 2 cans of LeSeur baby green peas with those little olives
and some peppermints and spearmints I had on board as an anti emetic
Wait- did he eat the dog at the end of the three months or the beginning?
The Kenyan is likely tough and poorly marbled (on the inside)
Only an idiot would value an animal over a human being.
In the old west cattle rustlers were hung. Horse thieves were hung. Scientists estimate that dogs (and cats) have the emotional and mental capacity of a three year old human toddler. He may have had no choice, but it was still an act of betrayal.
“an ultimate act of betrayal and selfishness”
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I’m with you. I teared up just reading about it and I don’t often do that.
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I agree with you. I read about people jumping in frozen ponds, or dangerously high seas to save their dogs. It seems like the dog usually gets out on its own; the people don’t. Their was one case in California where a wave swept a dog of a beach, a boy went after it, the parents after the boy, and only the dog came back, leaving a teen-aged girl without parents or brother.
Nonetheless, it would probably take me more than three days to eat my dog - unless she started eyeing me first. And I’d like company in bear country.
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