Dog reunited with owner after 53 days in the desert

[Betonov]

And it depends on your ability to digest and imune system.
I remember when we were teenagers we'd camp by a local river and drink that water without boiling it first. And the camp side was downriver from an industrial town, a sewage treatment plant and a hydroelectric dam. Never felt ill. A cityslicker would probibly die

[nikimcbee]

@ Betonov

I thought you look alittle different...

[Betonov]

I remember that picnic

And so will that scout group that camped nearby

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I remember that picnic

And so will that scout group that camped nearby

...and of course, I got the moment on video.

"The Croatian Creature" Betonov...
http://vodpod.com/watch/309503-zztop-burger-man

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

"The Croatian Creature" Betonov...

Excuse me ??????

And oh, nice song too bad it's B&W, I bet one of those space women is red

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Eating non-moving carcasses and drinking from equally non-moving (hopefully)source of water doesn't exactly say much about how this or that animal could survive in the wild.

One of our adopters lost an adult Shih Tzu just before the winter of 2011. She lost the dog about three days after adopting it so the dog had no chance of establishing any bond with the woman nor the location so this little dog was not only lost but disoriented.

Then the ice storms came. We were out looking for this dog for weeks. I really had no hope for it. A little domesticated dog like this outside in bitterly cold weather. Not looking good

The dog was found, about a month after being lost, a few miles from its home, near a farm. This little cute dog was surviving by hunting chickens which were not only bigger but out weighed the dog.

Wow. Instincts dormant for hundreds of generations, still worked when needed.

It was a happy ending to a very sad story. The dog is with another owner and is doing well. The new owner was the lady who was originally fostering it for our rescue and is very experienced with dogs. She told me she had to undergo a little re-domestication training with the Shih Tzu to get it back to being a pet and not a hunter.

Dogs, gots to love em.

[August]

Then there are the sled dogs that were abandoned in the Antarctic for an entire year. Although only 2 of the 15 survived the mortality rate was certainly increased because the dogs were left chained up. That any survived at all is a testament to a dogs survival ability.