“Let’s go for Wilson!” The Colombian army is looking for his dog Wilson, a six-year-old Belgian shepherd who got lost in the jungle during search operations and who is said to have reunited with the four children lost for forty days in the jungle after a passenger crashed. plane.
The young survivors claim to have encountered “a big dog” shortly before they were found. Shortly after arriving at the Bogotá hospital, two of the children, Lesly, 13, and Soleiny, 9, drew a picture of a dog with pointy ears and light brown fur that could be Wilson, the reporter said. guardian. The drawings were published in Twitter.
“From what the children told us, we can confirm that Wilson, our command dog, was with them, very emaciated and with nothing to eat in the jungle,” General Pedro Sánchez, head of search operations, told reporters on Saturday.
“Eagerness”, “complexity of the terrain”
Shortly before getting lost, Wilson had found the bottle of one-year-old Cristin, the youngest of the brothers, who had helped the search teams. The dog was deployed with ten other conspecifics in this operation. The soldiers, for their part, claim to have lost Wilson a day before they found the children.
“We saw him about 40 meters away and we tried to call him. (…) My partner approached him, tried to play with him to catch him, but he ran away. He ran away,” said Carlos Villegas, one of the trainers of dogs said Time.
“One of the hypotheses” is that due to the complexity of the terrain, the humidity and the unfavorable weather conditions, he would have become disoriented.” The encounter with a predator capable of modifying the dog’s behavior is also mentioned. Army.
“Never abandon a partner”
The soldiers have decided to prolong “Operation Hope”, which began in early May to find the children, and promises that “it will not stop until we find our four-legged friend.”
“Our postulate as commandos: never abandon a fallen comrade on the battlefield,” defends the Army on its Twitter account.
According to information published and transmitted by the soldiers, Wilson is a dog specialized in “humanitarian search and rescue operations” and has already been mobilized in several situations of this type.
On social media, many netizens expressed their solidarity with Wilson and the soldiers mobilized for the search by posting photos of their own dog with the #OperacionEsperanza or #VamosPorWilson.
Source: BFM TV
