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A Canadian human being come through a bear attack and months in the wild thanks to his close associate , a dog . But at the end of the trial by ordeal , the dog did n’t make it out live .

In July , a 44 - year - one-time man , Marco Lavoie , set off on a two - month canoeing trip in Northwestern Quebec along the Nottaway River . But a bear attacked his campsite , feed all his food and destroying the canoe he needed to journey back home . His darling German shepherd chased off the bear before the homo could be harmed .

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German shepherd dog in the grass.

Without any food , Lavoie faced sealed starvation . So a few days afterward , he hit his dog with a rock and exhaust him . When he was lately returning from his trip in October , his household alerted police . When Lavoie was finally rescued late last month , he could n’t speak or eat on , had lose about 90 Cypriot pound , and was dehydrated and suffering from hypothermia .

" He pull through because he made practiced determination . eat up his wienerwurst was one of them , " Andre Francois Bourbeau , writer of a survival pathfinder , told the Toronto Sun .

German shepherd dog in the grass.

German shepherd dog in the grass.

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