Stella previously survived getting trapped in a truck that was crushed during Sitka’s deadly 2015 landslides.
Stella Mahoskey looks like your typical golden retriever. At age 13, her muzzle has grayed, and her hips sway a little when she walks. She has a trove of stuffed toys, and she loves getting chunks of Tillamook cheese as a treat. If you look close, you’ll see a long scar across her belly and left leg. That’s one of the only clues Stella gives about her 65 days lost in the wilderness this summer.
“They said, ‘Did you hear that there was a bear that attacked a dog last night? We had the windows open in the back of the house and my wife heard this altercation that sent chills up her spine. And basically, I don’t think your dog could be alive,'” Sarah recounted.After Stella disappeared in July, Sarah and Jerome’s friends started hiking the trails around where she went missing. Community members reported possible sightings. The Mahoskeys investigated every report.
“She was on this cliff side and it was basically this ash and rock that was the same exact color as her,” Sarah said. “She totally blended in. The fact that Tim saw her — I just kept saying to him, ‘How did you see her?’” Stella was down to 30 pounds, about half of her normal body weight. She had a wide gash across her left side.The Mahoskeys haven’t confirmed that the gash was from a bear, but they believe that’s the most likely explanation.
In 2015, not long after the Mahoskeys adopted Stella from a couple in Port Alexander, she rode with Jerome to work on a rainy August morning. That day, heavy rain triggered a series of landslides. Thekilled three people and rocked the Sitka community. Jerome narrowly escaped the landslide, but the truck — with Stella inside — was crushed. He assumed the worst.
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