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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Dog’s return only adds to mystery of Canadian man missing in wilderness

A blue stream cutting through the woods of British Columbia
Search crews have been baffled as they looked for any trace of Barnes’s trail for weeks in the wilderness of western Canada. Photograph: Fernando Lessa/Alamy

When Micaela Sawyer saw the photo of a weak, emaciated dog shuddering in the snow, she hoped desperately it was her Murphy.

The golden retriever with a dulled red coat and legs riddled with injuries, was unmistakably the dog she and her partner, Jim Barnes, had raised as a puppy, she said.

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