ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 1-year-old Australian shepherd took an impressive trek throughout 150 miles (241 kilometers) of frozen Bering Sea ice that consisted of being bitten by a seal or polar bear prior to he was securely gone back to his home in Alaska.
Mandy Iworrigan, Nanuq’s owner who resides in Gambell, Alaska, and her family were checking out Savoogna, another St. Lawrence Island neighborhood in the Bering Strait, last month when Nanuq vanished with their other family dog, Starlight, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Starlight showed up a couple of weeks later on, however Nanuq, which suggests polar bear in Siberian Yupik, was no place to be discovered.
About a month after Nanuq vanished, individuals in Wales, 150 miles (241 kilometers) northeast of Savoonga on Alaska’s western coast, started publishing images online of what they referred to as a lost dog.
“My dad texted me and said, ‘There’s a dog that looks like Nanuq in Wales,’” Iworrigan said.
She reactivated her Facebook account to see if it may be her roaming hound.
“I was like, ‘No freakin’ way! That’s our dog! What is he doing in Wales?’” she said.
The occasions of Nanuq’s journey will likely constantly be a secret.
“I have no idea why he ended up in Wales. Maybe the ice shifted while he was hunting,” Iworrigan said. “I’m pretty sure he ate leftovers of seal or caught a seal. Probably birds, too. He eats our Native foods. He’s smart.”
She utilized airline company indicate get her dog back to Gambell on a local air provider recently, a charter that was transferring professional athletes for the Bering Strait School District’s Native Youth Olympics competition.
Iworrigan filmed the happy reunion when the aircraft landed at the air strip in Savoonga, with both she and her child Brooklyn squealing with pleasure.
Except for an inflamed leg, with big bite marks from an unknown animal, Nanuq remained in respectable health.
“Wolverine, seal, small nanuq, we don’t know, because it’s like a really big bite,” she said.
