I hope she got home to a nice fat couch, a pile of red meat, and all the love in the world. Goddamnit, if that doesn't bring a tear to your eye nothing will. The arduous search for Rich and his dog was the 'most comprehensive' in the Sherriff's team's history - and despite having other K9s searching for Finney and handlers calling out his name in the mountains, it did not lead to a sighting.įinney, who had most likely had to fend off other wildlife during the fraught 72 days and nights alone in the mountains, had long scars on her nose.It was only when the team offered starving Finney a can of wet beef dog food that she came close, and was able to be captured in a blanket by Roy Vega, Archuleta County's Deputy Director of Emergency Management. Rich Moore, 71, and his black and white Jack Russell, Finney, disappeared on a hike on August 19 in Blackhead Peak, located in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. A loyal dog stayed by her dead owner's side for nearly three months on a hiking trail - and the starving pup weighed just 6 lbs after surviving on insects and chipmunks, and fending for herself in the Colorado mountains.
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