The fire at a Beltsville, MD home started on Tuesday morning while the Aquilar family were sleeping. Their 6-year-old Doberman, Monster, was outside when the fire broke out and started barking uncontrollably and pouncing on a sliding glass door waking the family up.
The house was equipped with smoke alarms but Monster’s barking woke them up before the first one went off, giving them extra time to get out safely.
OK, I readily admit this next story isn’t focused solely on our favorite companions, but at least they’re on the periphery of the tale.
The story’s focus is on a cow or a pensioner depending on your point of view. Personally cows scare me, pensioners not so much.
It turns out I’m not the only one who feels this way if only because of the sheer size of the animals. I suspect I’d climb a tree too if one came charging at me.
FIREFIGHTERS are warning dog walkers to avoid fields with cows in after a pensioner had to be rescued from up a tree.
The 79-year-old woman had climbed up a hawthorn in Newark and been stuck for two hours after she and her two dogs were chased by a cow and a calf.
Brian Smith, watch manager for Newark Fire Station, said he only found the woman after spotting her pet Jack Russell hiding in the long grass beneath the tree, trembling.
Mr Smith said: “We normally save kids up trees but not 79-year-old ladies. I was expecting it to be a child. She said the cows had chased her.
“If you do come across cattle, let go of the dog and the cows will chase them. Dogs will outrun a cow, unless it has arthritis like the lady’s little dog did.”
The woman’s other dog, a golden retriever, is believed to have scared off the cows while hiding in a bush below the tree.
So which would your pup be more like: the trembling Jack Russell or the Golden Retriever?
I love a good old fashioned, heartwarming story. Today we have a tale of two dogs, one of which gets injured requiring the support of the other.
The Northern Star has the full story but I’ll give you a quick excerpt of what transpired.
THE miraculous tale of two working dogs from Nymboida reads like a Disney movie.
It’s a story of injury, starvation and mateship between a nine-year-old dog named Buddy and a chocolate kelpie pup called Micky.
The adventure started on Tuesday of last week when the dogs were out on the farm with their owner Ken Tucker, who was fixing fences.
“All of a sudden I looked up and they weren’t there,” Ken said.
“I could hear them barking in the distance so I dare say there was a wild dog fairly close by.”
All Ken usually has to do is whistle and the dogs are back within minutes, but this time they did not return.
By Saturday, after no sign of them, Ken said he had no choice but to give up the search.
It’s believed while chasing the wild dogs, Buddy had become impaled on a stick.
It went straight into his side, preventing him from moving.
Micky the puppy stayed by Buddy’s side for five days, keeping him warm through the frosty nights, and according to South Grafton vet Dr Chris Gough, probably bringing him food.
“If it wasn’t for Micky, Buddy would have almost certainly died,” Dr Gough said.
I urge you to read the whole thing. I love a reading about canine heroes in our midst.
Come on heroes, time to bark up your story.
* Pic is of Dogster member Mocha Bella…a beauty indeed!
I want to pay tribute to all the military dogs who have served our country, they are the forgotten soldiers. These dogs protects us and give their lives without any recognition, the least we can do is take a moment to honor and remember them.
There is a wonderful organization, Save-A-Vet, to help military dogs that are injured or retired find suitable homes.
There are thousands of dogs being used by the military and law enforcement today. Unfortunately when they are injured or retired, many of them are unable to find suitable homes to live out their lives. Due to their training, a majority of these dogs cannot be adopted out by regular families. We’re here to provide a comfortable home for these FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS.
Hi, I’m Danny Scheurer, Founder and CEO of Save-A-Vet nfp Inc. I am an Iraq veteran. Everyday our troops rely on our K-9 friends for protection. There were many times our bomb-sniffing canines saved our lives as we went about our duties. As a long animal lover, I passionately believe when our canines retire from their commission, they should live out the remainder of their days in peace. Many military and law enforcement K-9’s are unable to be placed up for adoption due to their training, past experiences or injuries obtained in the line of duty.
This is when Save-A-Vet “THE OTHER FORGOTTEN SOLDIER” was born in my heart. Let it live in your heart. Our canine friends and partners will do anything for us. They protect us and give their lives to keep us out of harms way. Now they need our help to take care of them, to protect them, to give them a place to live after their work is done.
Save-A-Vet is a 501(c)(3) organization, set up to provide a comfortable atmosphere in which these Forgotten Soldiers can live out the remainder of there life. In addition, our goals once at 100% strength, is to provide disabled, injured and retired military and law enforcement veterans, housing and employment to help us care for these Forgotten Soldiers.
You can help choose the HSUS 2009 Dog of Valor, the polls are open and they want your vote.
Vote for your favorite Dogs of Valor Finalist!
The Humane Society of the United States created the Dogs of Valor Awards to honor and celebrate dogs who have performed an extraordinary act of courage by heroically helping a person in need. Finalists for this year’s award, sponsored by PetPlan Pet Insurance, were chosen based on the significance and impact of their heroic actions.
Our panel of celebrity judges, including Benji (with the help of her humans, Joe and Kathleen Camp), Ron Burns, Randy Pobst, and Judge David Young, will choose a Valor Dog of the Year and three Runners Up. Now we want to hear from you!
Cast your vote for your favorite heroic hound before the voting closes on Friday, May 15 2009 at 5 PM Eastern Time. The Finalist who receives the most votes will be named this year’s People’s Hero winner!
Go to the HSUS website to learn about the 15 finalists in contention. All of their stories are amazing, this is going to be a very tough decision.
You know what won’t be a tough decision after reading the stories? Going out and adopting a dog from a shelter. As I’ve mentioned before, when you adopt from a shelter you save a life, you’ll see from these stories it may be your own.
*Boo, renamed Hero, is one of the finalists, pic courtesy HSUS site.
An unwanted Rottweiler who had been living outside tied to a tree was rescued by a Livonia, MI man. Boomer came to live with his new owner about a week before Christmas, he ended up being the best gift John Bates ever received. He rescued Boomer, now Boomer has rescued him.
Early Tuesday morning there was a house fire where Bates, his girlfriend, and her two daughters live.
The fire started in a living room wall in the home on Rayburn between Merriman and Middlebelt. The family had had a fire in the fireplace the evening before, and the fire may have spread to the wall space through a hole in the brickwork, Donnelley said.
The 2-year-old Rottweiler, Boomer, alerted owner John Bates at about 5:15 a.m.
“He kept putting his cold nose right into my face. He was bouncing around,” Bates said, adding that that was unusual behavior for Boomer. The family’s other dog, a 1-year-old bull mastiff named Princess, was right behind Boomer.
“I thought they had to go the bathroom real bad,” Bates said.
He got out of bed, let them out the front door, turned on the light in the living room and saw 4 to 8 inches of smoke on the living room ceiling coming from around the fireplace. Read the rest of this entry »
Pebbles the Chihuahua and her owner may be small in stature, but both have a big spirit. Beverly Burkitt went out for a one hour walk in the woods on a mountain range in Wales. She had her dog Pebbles and phone with her, but somewhere along the way dropped her phone.
Beverly is not quite 4 feet tall, she has dwarfism, and she also has asthma. Things got scary when she lost her way and was stranded overnight in very cold temperatures. In order to avoid hypothermia she used Pebbles as a blanket, because of her small size he fit perfectly over her legs.
Beverley, 45, said: “Pebbles lay across my legs overnight and kept me warm.
“I was wearing a coat but it wasn’t as warm as Pebbles.
Thanks to Pebbles she survived the night without any complications. It just goes to show, size doesn’t matter when it comes to heroes. Nice job Pebbles, hope you got a big treat.
A good partner is not easy to find. It’s that much more important to find the perfect match knowing your life may be in their hands. As in the case with Jess Havin and his partner Earp, a police officer and his K-9.
They were at the scene of a murder, one dead, the other locked up in the house refusing to come out. Earp was sent in to help take down the knife wielding man who had just killed his wife. Earp, an 8-year-old German Shepherd, had never been ordered to attack before. Prior to this he was used as a drug sniffing dog, to find guns, or to scare people.
SAN DIEGO - San Diego police Sgt. Jess Havin knew every minute mattered when he scooped up his bloodied partner and bolted to the cruiser they’ve shared for five years.
It took one minute to escape the chaos of the home where two people lay dead and load his partner into the back. It took five more to race to the hospital, lights flashing and siren blaring in the “code 3″ of police jargon.
“We don’t have a policy where you run a code 3 for an animal,” Havin said. “I don’t care. I did it. I’d do it again.”
Earp had been stabbed in the throat and received life saving surgery to repair the carotid artery that was severed. Doctors said he would have died if Havin hadn’t used a “code 3″, cutting the normal 10 minute drive in half.
The Police Department won’t decide whether Earp will retire early or return to the force until the end of a mandatory 14-day rest following the attack. Either way, he’ll live out his retirement at Haven’s home in Alpine.
Police dogs typically retire when they are about 8½ years old because they start becoming less “driven,” Havin said.
“This dog will slide right into it, especially because the last two nights he’s been sleeping in the bedroom,” Havin said.
We wish Havin and Earp the best, what a great team.
Since this is a dog blog, a couple times a month our boy Bo thought it would be nice to get the news through a dog’s eyes. When Bo decides to share his thoughts you’ll always see the tag Bo Knows. This post is a tribute to Endal, from the prior story, who went to Rainbow Bridge on March 6, 2009. Okay Bo, take it from here…..
Modern day dog’s are so much more technologically advanced than me and my generation. Just read this story on dogs using ATMs. In my day, all that was ever taught to ‘assistance dogs’ was how to write out a check. Time flies when your begging for food…
They might not be able to help if you forget your Pin, but these dogs can get your money out without paws-ing for thought.
The pooches are among an army of ‘assistance dogs’ who have been trained to withdraw money from cash machines for their disabled owners.
They are adept at inserting and withdrawing cards at ATMs to help owners in wheelchairs who are often not able to stretch far enough to do it themselves.
A spokesman for charity Canine Partners, which trains the dogs, said: ‘They put in the card and take it out and take out the money and give it to the person in the wheelchair.
I wonder whether they’re also trained to accept the ATM surcharge when prompted?
‘They can’t put in the Pin but a person in a wheelchair can go sideways on and do that.’
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