Koda with rescuers
When a young family went camping in the rough terrain of the Yukon, they encountered a yellow dog with porcupine quills in its face. They helped pull the quills out, little knowing that the dog would soon repay their kindness beyond measure.
Not long after, as they set up camp, their two-year-old boy disappeared into the heavy brush. When search-and-rescue teams finally found him, nearly 25 hours later, the dog, Koda, was still with him.
Searchers said it was remarkable that the boy, dressed only in a T-shirt, had survived overnight without going into hypothermia, and that Koda had doubtless helped him stay warm and calm.
Koda’s owner, who had been one of the searchers, said that she had rescued the dog from the streets several months earlier. Koda was clearly “meant to be there at that time,” she said, and so she gave him to the boy’s family.
Koda will no doubt spend the rest of his life a most beloved pet.