[SPEC ARTICLE] POV: you're on a dog's journey through the woods.
Imagine walking through the woods with no sense of direction other than your own nose for a day. This is exactly what happened to Cormac. Cormac “Bubba Bear'' Lawrence, a 10 year old Rottweiler, was found excitedly and lovingly by a couple, Janet, and David Palmer, as they were driving to their campsite. “When we found him by the side of the road, he looked like the happiest boy I’d ever seen! He looked like he was enjoying life with no care at all," Janet reported.
Dylan Lawrence led a week-long camping trip with his dog. He did so to get away from the world. Dylan goes on to say, “I think sometimes life can be too overwhelming. You need a moment to take the deepest of breaths and recognize that your world can’t be solved in an instant. It’s just nice to get away from it all.”
Cormac and Dylan embarked on the Goat Lake Trail for an extensive 10-mile hike in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest at around 8:30 am. “When I’m out there hugging trees and what not, I love to get in the zone by listening to some music. It feels like it grounds me to the Earth.” Dylan put on his headphones and trekked down the trail, ensuring that Cormac was following him. Two hours passed, Dylan lowered on a rock to sketch a barren tree and wrote down poetry passing through his mind when he looked up to find Cormac, he was gone. “I was horrified. He usually stays right next to me the entire time. I shouted, yelled his name, but to my dismay, he had vanished.” So, where had Cormac gone? Pictures, and video captured from Cormac’s live Go-Pro tell us the rest of the story.
Cormac was following Dylan for about an hour and thirty minutes when he smelled something nearby in the forest. Following his curiosity, Cormac investigated to find a fawn tangled in some wire. The dog paced around and sniffed at the calf before eventually, using his teeth, pulling the wire, and untangling the fawn. He then licked the baby deer who then follows him.
“I remember looking back at that footage and being so shocked. I sobbed like a baby seeing this. I knew he was loving, but that was a whole nother level of love.”
Cormac proceeded through the forest heading back the way he came by sniffing out the trail. Dylan told us in the interview, that he trained him to navigate the trails in case he ever got lost. So, Cormac and his new found fawn friend, traveled down the trail through mossy stones and quiet light passing through the canopy of trees. Cormac reached Dylan’s car with the baying fawn and stayed there for about an hour. “That entire time I was looking for him I had no idea, he was right next to my car. I mean, he was right there and I was in the forest looking for him, calling out his name as much as I could.” After a long wait, Cormac headed back down the road. However, his journey gets interesting from here.
Seeing the dog panting, it called the attention of the fawn. It then guides him to a stunning waterfall off the North Sauk Falls Trail. Cormac was able to get some gulps of water. He laid here for about thirty minutes before coming back up the trail. “Oh, I just love seeing that! Cormac was really just taking it all in. Enjoying nature as he should.” The fawn and Cormac made their way back to Dylan’s initial campsite. Investigating the area, Dylan was not there, so Cormac kept on trucking on the road. For the next hour, Cormac took in some more scenery, enjoyed the stunning views of an ice cave, and eventually found his way to a pond where he sat, smiling.
This is where Janet & David Palmer found him. They scooped him up and put him into the back of their car along with the fawn. “I remember looking back at my car seat and them boys were just napping away,” David says. The Palmers drove Cormac and the fawn to the Visitor Center. When they arrived and told the proper authorities about the situation, one of them called out on his walkie, and lo–and behold, Dylan was called in. Bursting through the doors, Dylan and Cormac bounded up to each other embracing with a heart full of love. “I was so happy when I found him. I really thought I was never gonna see him again. To be honest though, I'm grateful for the experience. Taught me to keep my eyes on the road, but let the dog wander a bit. He will now always get as much time as I do to take it all in.”
(Photo by Dylan Lawrence)
this story is fictitious. The purpose is for spec writing.
