'Mole' to the rescue! Alert dog saves trapped hiker on California mountain
Source: NY Daily News
By David Boroff
Man's best friend will be a rescued hiker's pal for life.
A California man was trapped between rocks for "four-to-six days" on a mountain before he was rescued by another hiker - and his alert rescue dog.
Riverside resident Ramon Llamas was climbing Mt. Rubidoux on Monday morning when his dog, Mole, started acting up.
"He likes to go look in the rocks and he kind of pulled me over, pulling and crying and I said, 'What's going on boy?'" Llamas told KABC in Los Angeles.
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Llamas and 'Mole.'
PDJane
(10,103 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)I'll bet he found some, too.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Steaks for dinner, I hope, and many, many cookies!
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)I love reminders of just what dogs mean to our lives.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Mole looks too big to be a pit bull but I wonder if he would have been reported as such had bitten someone rather than helped with a rescue.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)The article doesn't seem to indicate that there was an active search. It seems too much of a coincidence that the guy was out for a walk with a working search and rescue dog. I'm involved in the dog rescue community retrieving dogs from puppy mills and we tend to refer to our dogs as "rescue dogs".
tabasco
(22,974 posts)rather than a trained rescue dog.
A good writer should realize the potential confusion.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)and truly man's best friend on this planet.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)If you don't believe me, try this experiment. Lock both your spouse and you dog in the trunk of your car. Then the next day, open the truck and see which one is happier to see you.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Don't hike in unfamiliar areas at night. And be kind to doggies!