‘Miracle dog’ survives a month in wilderness immediately after having misplaced

Betsy and Jim Chaffin keep their 11-thirty day period-previous dog, Bella, in their house on Friday, July 23, 2021. Bella was dropped in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness for a thirty day period and was located immediately after the local community rallied collectively to assist monitor her down. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Occasions)

A small cockapoo relied on a significant coronary heart, wily wits and maybe a little luck to survive 4 weeks in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness.

Bella disappeared June 18 when climbing the Capitol Creek Ditch Path with Betsy and Jim Chaffin and their prolonged family, together with two other canines. Bella had long gone in advance of the human pack with the Chaffins’ grandson and other canine when she turned around. Somehow, she obtained off system and, willingly or not, went on an epic journey.

She was reunited with the Chaffins four months to the working day she went

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