“Dogs are strong and smart. They can survive a very long time. We didn’t know the situation of this dog or how long he’d been out there,” said Wendy Jones, Founder of Tahoe PAWS and TLC 4 Furry Friends.
Russ had already been missing for four months. Russ’s owner, a traveling nurse, was in Tahoe when the Caldor fire swept through. He was forced to leave when the city was evacuated, but Russ ran off never to be seen again, until now. Someone reported seeing Russ on a mountainside barking and growling unable to move in the snow.
