
The first words of a man recently rescued and recovering in a Canadian hospital after surviving almost three months along the Nottaway River, about 800 km from Montreal, are reported by the Daily Mail to be, “I want a new dog.” What happend to the old one? He ate it. When I read the initial accounts of this incident in the news last week, it sounded like an amazing story of survival. Especially since, after spending so long stranded in a region where many others before him never even returned, his discovery and rescue was so dramatic. Adding to it were the reports that he was forced to eat his “beloved” dog to stay alive. I continued to follow this story because such incidents can be good learning tools by letting us learn from others’ successes and failures. But when I read the various timelines (like another Daily Mail article) […]
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