Three months worth of camp rations, and NOTHING was salvageable after the bear attaack, to the point that three days later you kill and eat your dog?
Not to mention the afforementioned "starving" after three days. No, you're REALLY hungry after three days, but you're not starving.
I think the big problem is that commercial dog food makes dogs taste awful. There should be a law that dog food not give its stink to dogs, because it makes you only want to eat your dogs when you are really, really hungry. A well fed dog would be delicious, especially when they’re young.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/hotspring.asp
This is how a man of character behaves with his dog.
John Billings: I say we drink the wine, eat the dogs, and use the paper for musket wading.
Reverend Oliver: [alarmed] Eat the dogs?
Benjamin Martin: [going along with Billings’ joke] A dog is a fine meal.
Reverend Oliver: [still alarmed] G-G-Good Heavens!
[Billings and Martin laugh]
[NVA: I don’t think Billings was joking]
This story is (gasp) another example of poorly written, poorly researched, tear-jerkingly liberal journalism.
The guy was an experienced outdoorsman.
He was on a planned two month canoe expedition.
The area was the far NW portion of Quebec...the Canadian Shield is VERY hard to live in, regardless of survival training.
The guy has not really been interviewed, as he was within 1-2 days of death when found. He will require weeks, if not months, of hospital care. He could not eat or drink when found.
His family reported him missing about two weeks after his expected return...they were not unusually concerned by a late return at first, they knew his abilities. He was eventually found by a search and rescue helicopter crew.
Because of his inability to be interviewed, the timeline of events is murky as to when he killed the dog, but it certainly was not after only three days.
The fact that he was so close to death when found shows that his eating the dog saved his life. What more can be asked of a dog?
Unlike so many of those on this thread, I think the guy conducted himself pretty damned well.
He couldn’t go three days without food?
You don't head out into the wilderness without basic orienteering and knowledge of survival skills unless you're a dumbass enviro-weenie.
This guy reminds me of that photographer who headed into the Alaskan wilderness with his nubile and naive sex-kitten to film his new found family of grizzlies.......only to end up as dinner.
What hasn't been mentioned is that if his expedition had been in Alaska, he would at least have had the legal right to carry a sidearm in order to fend off any hostile predators..........
If the man couldn’t feed himself, he certainly couldn’t feed the dog. A starving dog is suffering and if it can’t be fed it should be put out of its misery sooner rather than later. And after that’s done, there’s no good reason not to eat it.
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Sounds like an episode of Obama going camping with Bo.
Boy, you would’ve really hated the RevWar soldiers. Including many who suffered heading up to and in Canada.
Terrible, but had to be done.