Three dogs help injured woman survive Canadian wilderness
Source: BBC News
9 hours ago
Annette Poitras, 56, was walking the three dogs on Monday in the British Columbia backcountry when she fell, injured herself and lost her phone.
She was rescued on Wednesday afternoon after a long hunt by Coquitlam search and rescue.
Her husband says the three dogs helped Poitras stay alive during the ordeal.
Marcel Poitras told Global News that his wife and the dogs - a collie called Chloe, a boxer named Roxy, and Bubba, a pug-beagle mix - took care of each other over two days and two nights, with no supplies and periods of "torrential" rain.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42101456
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)DBoon
(22,401 posts)A particularly cold night was a 3-dog night.
The band adopted this phrase as their name.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)we fought over who would get the dog when we crowded into the air raid shelter!! We usually settled for sharing him, in the middle with all our feet on him.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)A friend of my father's owned a movie theatre (the pictures we called it) The dog kept showing up and did not want to leave. The friend finally decided his family must have been "bombed out" (killed) and the dog survived. Since there were seven kids in our family, he asked my dad to adopt the dog. My mother agreed, so Rover came to live with us. Great dog. Nobody was allowed to walk past our house on the sidewalk. They HAD to step into the street until they reached the next house. He never bit anyone, just made it known that he would if necessary.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)safer in the shelter when Rover was with us. As though he could protect us from bombs!! We always made sure he was there with us. Good dog, well behaved. When we ran down the yard to the shelter, he was right there with us. He wanted to be safe, too, after losing one family. My parents never regretted adopting him.
Judi Lynn
(160,641 posts)Thank you for your information.
Judi Lynn
(160,641 posts)red dog 1
(27,872 posts)Beautiful dogs!
(She was very fortunate that she had 3 of them with her after she fell)