The first cartoons of children rescued in the woods depicted Wilson, a dog lost during a search

Wilson, a Colombian Army dog, disappeared during searches for the four children who had been missing for forty days in the jungle. He was going to meet them before he got lost again. The army expands the search.

“Famos por Wilson!” The Colombian Army is searching for their dog Wilson, a six-year-old Belgian Shepherd who went missing in the jungle during search operations and is said to have met the four children who went missing for forty days in the jungle after a passenger crashed. airplane.

The young survivors claim to have met a “big dog” shortly before they were found. Shortly after arriving at a Bogota hospital, two of the children, 13-year-old Leslie and nine-year-old Solini, drew pictures of a dog with pointed ears and a light brown coat that could be Wilson. guardian. Graphics posted at Twitter.

“From what the children told us, we can confirm that Wilson, our commando dog, was with them, very emaciated and had nothing to eat in the jungle,” Gen. Pedro Sanchez told reporters on Saturday.

“Passion”, “Terrain Complexity”

Shortly before it went missing, a bottle of one-year-old Christine, the youngest of the siblings, was found by Wilson, who helped search parties. The dog was deployed along with ten other congeners in the process. For their part, the soldiers claimed to have lost Wilson one day before the children were found.

“We saw him about 40 meters away and tried to contact him. (…) My companion approached him, tried to play with him to catch him, but he ran away. He ran away,” Carlos Villegas, one of the dog handlers, said. Tempo.

“One hypothesis is that due to the complexity of the terrain, the humidity, and the unfavorable weather conditions, it might have been disoriented.” The encounter with a predator capable of modifying the dog’s behavior was also mentioned by Army.

“Never give up on a friend”

The soldiers decided to extend “Operation Hope” that began in early May to find the children, promising that it “will not stop until we find our four-legged friend.”

“Our assumption as commandos: never give up a fallen comrade on the battlefield,” the Army defends on its Twitter account.

According to published information passed on by the soldiers, Wilson is a dog that specializes in “humanitarian search and rescue” and has already been packaged into several such situations.

On social networks, many netizens showed their solidarity with Wilson and the soldiers mobilized for the hunt by posting pictures of their dog with # Operation Esperanza or #VamosPorWilson.