A dog that was feared to have died after being swept away by an avalanche of snow and who killed his owner, appeared four days later at a Montana motel, where their owners had spent the night before going skiing off-piste.
Members of a rescue team assumed the dog had been buried by the snow avalanche after a meticulous search without finding any sign to the contrary..
The surprise was when four days after the accident ole, What's the name of the dog, He appeared exhausted and hungry in the motel, four kilometres from where the event occurred. Was the owner of the motel who observed the canine hero, sitting in front of his bedroom window, looking through the window.
Dave Gaillard of Bozeman was skiing with his wife when the avalanche occurred, close to Cooke City, a former mining town on the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park. "His last words were" retirement to trees ". ยซI think he saw what came from above, And that I did not see ยป, Kerry Corcoran Gaillard told a local newspaper.
A member of the rescue team carried the exhausted dog family Bozeman.
Researchers recovered Gaillard's body days later.