Just a casual promenade .
This venturous dog tookhikingto the next horizontal surface , somehow traveling more than 160 miles over the frozen sea — and surviving at least one confrontation with an Arctic marauder — before return home plate .
Nanuq , anAustralian shepherd , went missing while his household was on a trip in March , Anchorage Dailyreports . Two of the kinfolk ’s other frankfurter , Starlight and Ghost , also went missing . The puppy live with their family in Gambell , a modest town on Alaska ’s St. Lawrence Island . They disappeared while the human race were in Savoonga , another town on the island about 37 mile aside .
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Mandy Iworrigan , the blackguard ' mommy , told the newspaper she had her partner hunt around the area for Nanuq and Starlight , but they had no luck finding them . Ghost , Iworrigan ’s uncle ’s dog , is a pretty consistent escape artist — but the uncle read he " always finds his way back . "
While playing outside in Savoonga , Iworrigan ’s daughters noticed a pup who appeared to be spookily like to Starlight . Iworrigan was n’t convert when the girls first tell her until she comment the hotdog kept following her young daughter around . The dog was in fact Starlight , but Nanuq was still nowhere to be found .
Around a calendar month after he go bad missing , Iworrigan ’s dad establish a possible Nanuq spotting — but it was n’t what she carry . His text to her said there was a weenie in Wales , Alaska , who looked just like Nanuq . Wales is 166 miles out and across the Bering Sea .
Photos of the lookalike pooch seem on a local Facebook mathematical group . Iworrigan looked to see if the blackguard really could be Nanuq . Once she see the pictures , she know it had to be him .
" I was like , ' No freakin ' way ! That ’s our dog ! What is he doing in Wales ? ' " Iworrigan tell the newsprint .
Nanuq ’s impressive journey over a frozen ocean remains a mystery , though Iworrigan thinks her intelligent whelp probably make it by hunting or eating other creature ' hunting remains .
get Nanuq back home was an adventure in itself , as there are no unmediated flight of stairs from Wales to St. Lawrence Island . However , there happened to be a charter flight bringing pupil from Wales to Gambell for a youth Olympic Games tourney — and Nanuq was able to hitch a ride on the plane .
The kinsperson was overjoyed when the plane landed and Nanuq was last back from his tempestuous adventure last week . Iworrigan posted a television on Facebook of the pup ’s take — the sept erupting with cheer and agitation as Nanuq is unloaded from the plane . Starlight is also there , front and center , await to greet her comrade upon his arrival .
The puppy get in in evenhandedly good health , although he did have a swollen-headed pegleg with a couple prominent raciness marks . No one is quite sure what kind of animal left them , but Iworrigan suspect a sealing wax , wolverine , or even a small arctic bear could ’ve prick Nanuq .
Nanuq is now safe at dwelling and recover with his human and canine syndicate after his prolonged journeying .
" If Canis familiaris could talk , both [ Nanuq and Starlight ] would have one heck of a report , " Iworrigan told the newspaper .
