Dog Buried By Avalanche Turns Up Alive

[MelodysMum]

A dog thought dead in the US has made an amazing reappearance four days after it was believed to have been buried in an avalanche that killed its owner.

Oly, a Welsh corgi from the Western state of Montana, is now recovering at home after digging himself out of more than a metre of snow, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports.

David Gaillard, 44, and his wife, Kerry Corcoran-Gaillard, had been cross-country skiing with Oly following in their tracks when the avalanche struck last Saturday.

Mr Gaillard told his wife to "retreat to the trees", which she did, grabbing a tree to stop herself from being carried away.

After frantically digging in vain to try and find her husband Mrs Corcoran-Gaillard returned back to her hotel and raised the alarm.

A search-and-rescue team located Mr Gaillard's body later that night.

On Wednesday, four days after the avalanche, a local resident of Cooke City, Bill Whittle, noticed a Corgi outside Room 17 of the Alpine Hotel, the same room where the couple had stayed the night before the ski trip.

"We're thinking he dug himself out because of his short legs, and he followed the trail back to the point they parked to go ski," Kerry Corcoran Gaillard's daughter, Silver Brelsford, told the Chronicle.

A skier followed Oly's tracks back to the avalanche, Mr Whittle told the newspaper.

'He was buried about 50 feet below David, about three feet deep," he said.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8399613/dog-buried-by-avalanche-that-killed-owner-turns-up-alive

Very sad that the owner died, but what a great little dog! He looks wonderful and how clever was he to dig his way out and find his way back! ! It's so great that he didn't die too!

[asal]

how incredibly sad he didnt make it to the same trees he told his wife too.

[raz]

What a bittersweet story.