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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
The one I'm thinking of is definitely North American (maybe in Canada but I'm not sure), and definitely about a dog. Which I remember clearly because 1/2 the story is from the dog's p.o.v. Story ends with the dog going on to the nearest settlement to find a new human.
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It's a Jack London story called something like "To Build a Fire". The guy actually does get a fire going at one point, but as it's under a snow covered tree, all the snow from the branches falls onto the fire and extinguishes it. He then tries to coax the dog over nicely so he can cut it open and warm his hands, but the dog is not used to being spoken to nicely so it knows the dude is up to no good and thus keeps its distance. I believe it's so cold in the story that the guy's spit freezes before it hits the ground. In the end the guy decides that freezing to death (drifting off to sleep and not ever waking) is not such a bad way to die. True that.
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