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Judi Lynn

(160,631 posts)
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 12:12 AM Nov 2017

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

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Three dogs help injured woman survive Canadian wilderness (Original Post) Judi Lynn Nov 2017 OP
Dogs are your best friends! burrowowl Nov 2017 #1
Three Dog Night Xipe Totec Nov 2017 #2
Native Australians used dogs to keep warm on cold nights DBoon Nov 2017 #3
During WW11 Scarsdale Nov 2017 #4
what a good dog!, what was your 'foot warmers' name? Sunlei Nov 2017 #5
His name was Rover. Scarsdale Nov 2017 #6
Rover was very lucky he survived & was adopted by your family. A "Great Dog" & foot warmer. Sunlei Nov 2017 #7
As a kid, I felt so much Scarsdale Nov 2017 #8
What a bright, kind, warm experience in a terrifying time. Rover & your family protected each other. Judi Lynn Nov 2017 #9
Beautiful image. Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Nov 2017 #10
K&R red dog 1 Nov 2017 #11

DBoon

(22,399 posts)
3. Native Australians used dogs to keep warm on cold nights
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 12:58 AM
Nov 2017

A particularly cold night was a 3-dog night.

The band adopted this phrase as their name.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
4. During WW11
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 12:22 PM
Nov 2017

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.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
6. His name was Rover.
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 01:16 PM
Nov 2017

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.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
8. As a kid, I felt so much
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 03:31 PM
Nov 2017

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

(160,631 posts)
9. What a bright, kind, warm experience in a terrifying time. Rover & your family protected each other.
Sat Nov 25, 2017, 05:21 PM
Nov 2017

Thank you for your information.

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