Miracle pooch found alive several days after being presumed dead in avalanche disaster

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dog who was presumed dead after a horrifying avalanche crash has been found alive and well several days after the incident.The dog was found at a trailhead days after a skier had triggered an avalanche in Colorado, America which swept up the pooch, the skier and a snowboarder.Quick-thinking actions from the skier saw them deploy their airbag before being partially buried by the crumbling snow from the avalanche, but they lost sight of their four-legged friend when the avalanche hit.Both the snowboarder and skier were thankfully uninjured and able to make their way out of the avalanche aftermath.Brian Lazar, deputy director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Centre, told Fox Colorado: "The second skier down triggered an avalanche, which then washed over the snowboarder."This could have gone in a much different direction very easily."After getting themselves out from under the snow brought down by the avalanche, the pair looked for the dog along with a search crew but the pup didn't show up.They left the scene and presumed the pooch had died in the snow slide, with Lazar adding at the time: "We did have some search and rescue members visit yesterday, and they didn't see any signs of tracks."After several days missing, the dog miraculously showed itself at a trailhead of Monarch Pass in Chaffe County, LADBible reported.Despite the happy ending, Lazar insisted that the best course of action in an avalanche with a pet is for riders to keep an eye on their pet and only attempt to save them when safe to do so.He said: "We don't want dogs to wear avalanche transceivers.

We want people to be searchable by transceivers and not mixable with potential dogs with transceivers on."Of course, we will never know exactly what happened.