This is reprehensible and intolerable behavior from the owner of this dog. This guy takes his dog where he shouldn’t have, leaves the injured dog behind, assumes it is dead and doesn’t even go back for it. Meanwhile the injured dog is slowly dying. Happy ending is that some folks got together and rescued this dog. Happier ending would be the dog not being returned to the sack of crap that abandoned it. Best ending is that sack of crap getting a beatdown to the point he has hysterical flashbacks if he ever comes near another dog.
How someone can do this is beyond me. A dog is willing to do anything for you, follow you endlessly, take tremendous abuse, and still die to protect you. You don’t abandon it at the first sign of trouble and you definitely don’t leave it for dead if there’s even a chance its still alive. When I got Nuke I made it clear that there was a contract between us…we were all part of a team and we do not abandon each other. Ever. He trusts me to take care of him and I trust him to always be there for me. Thats how it works with dogs.
Grrr…now I really wanna go to Colorado and kick this guy in the nuts.
ETA: Oh look, he has a Facebook account. With a picture of his dog.
Wait CZ, it gets better. Apparently he now wants the dog BACK.
Look at Stan Deyo’s millennium ark page. The dog was rescued and carried 9 hours down the mountain. Better outcome for everyone but the owner.
Say Hi to Nuke, my 6 year old Airedale has a birthday today.
If you get there, give him a kick for me.
A kick in the nuts isn’t the right thing to do to this guy. Haul him up a good sized mountain and THEN kick him in the nuts as well as both knees. At that point calmly walk away with all supplies and gear…. Let the punishment fit the crime….
Steelheart
Bastard. Somebodt should leave him at 14000 ft injured and alone…
That’s my big point…if he’d broken his leg and gotten stuck up there that dog would have stayed with him no matter what, even at the expense of it’s own health and safety. And this useless waste of skin threw away that loyalty in one of the cruelest manners possible. Irredeemable. No excuse. Someone needs to make sure that guy doesn’t get this dog back ever.
Absolutely agree.
Personally if my dog was in a spot like that I would man up, put fido on my back and walk out. If it will protect us the least I can do is a rough walk for it.Then again I am loyal to a fault and in fairly decent shape. If I had to leave fido I would a) come back asap to rescue it or b) absolute worst case if it was really hurt 50 miles from nowhere I would put fido down. Unless I was e and e ing from an overwhelming enemy force or imenent death via fire or lava I cannot see just abandoning fido.
He doesn’t have any nuts. There is not enuf space here for me to put all of the adjectives I would call this moron. GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
I’ve never heard what happened to the dog. Does anyone know?
Owner gave up the rights and the dog went to a new home.
Corection CZ. Owner gave up rights and dog went to a new AND BETTER home.
Speaking of Bioweapons, how is the MK-II?
He’s okay. We’d been having some issues making us suspect he has an allergy to something and we just got the results back. Other than some minor food allergies (nothing major) it looks like his big weakspot is certain types of grasses. We’re going to have to make sure he stays out of them when we go on hikes.