BASALT — A Fryingpan Valley family’s dog is recovering from a mountain lion attack Saturday that has given the pet’s owners a greater appreciation for the wild.
Heidi, an 11-year-old beagle-foxhound mix, was hiking with owner Lu Krueger-Andersen and her friend Saturday in the upper Fryingpan Valley, east of Basalt. The dog was leashed, said husband Paul Andersen, a columnist for The Aspen Times who was hiking up Mount Sopris that day. But when the women stopped for lunch along Last Chance Creek in the Holy Cross Wilderness, Heidi was allowed off her leash. When they got up to leave, the dog dashed down the trail before she was releashed and was soon attacked, he said.
“Lu watched her go around the bend and then heard an awful sound,” Andersen said.
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