Two dogs spent 26 days with owner who died in the wilderness

The coroner told Deanna Lorenz her father died on September 29. Her dad, a 62-year-old who had been battling Alzheimer's, died during the night, out in the cold, five days after he had wandered away from his mountain home with his two Golden Retrievers.

The search had started in the hills north of Cotopaxi only a few hours after he disappeared on September 24. Days and weeks of searching turned up nothing.



In the end, it was a hunter who happened to stumble upon the body of Gary Lorenz on October 20.

The dogs were with Gary when he died. And they had stayed with him for another three weeks, guarding his body from who knows what. They had never left his side.