Ira Glass: "This American Life," I'm Ira Glass. Today's program "Puppy Love." We'll hear the story of a man who met his soul mate through a lost schnauzer, a beagle from Coos Bay, Oregon, who, for one week, was mayor. And we start with Act 1, a search-and-rescue collie looking for his owner, who was buried alive for 18 days.
Woman: After drinking his own urine for a week, Horace Laughton could no longer ignore the terrible truth he was running out of oxygen.
Cameron: H-help. Help! Help! Get me out of here! Hey! I will kill you! Ohh!
Mitchell: Cam, come on, this is serious.
Cameron: [panting] Oh, my God. I can't breathe. I need air. I need air!
Mitchell: [scoffs] I'm sorry. He is being such a baby, huh?
Bobby: There's a camera in there. I watched you cry.