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I still can't figure out why there is a pile of dog hair under my couch, the dog is too big to fit under there.....

EvanDP Crew

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With all the hair we trap in the vacuum I could make another dog every few weeks.

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No kidding, I don''t know how the dog has any hair left! I brush her, and brush her, and we still find "tribbles" all over the house.

With all the hair we trap in the vacuum I could make another dog every few weeks.

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I have never been a full time carer for a dog, circumstances have not allowed it, but dogs seem to like me.

 

I walk a neighbour's dog, a King Charles/something bigger cross. A cheeky bugger that goes by the unlikely name of, well, Charlie.

 

Charlie has lived for years with a cat - a somewhat strange ginger female - nearly all ginger cats are male.Named Honey

 

But just over a year ago a new katten moved in, a black and white male tom, named, once again unlikely, Thomas. Thomas and Charlie are great mates, play fighting and having much fun together.

 

Here is the hook though: the critters' 'mum' has found Charlie the dog to be chewing satchets and the small trays of pet food when she wakes up or gets home. They were stored where the dog could not get to them, but Thomas the cat could: the two of them worked out that Thomas should get them from storage and Charlie the cat chew them open for them both.

 

They have us well trained.........

Mr King Crew

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This weekend I went to a fund raiser for a bulldog rescue at a craft brewery in St Louis with some friends. Great beer, great food, wonderful puppies. The one in the picture was an 18 month old female that every male bulldog in the building was trying to get to. She was quite popular.,

 

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-10/old-dogs-who-guarded-owners-body-find-new-home-together/9535360

 

May God bless these two creatures and unite them with their owner.

 

 

An old man dies. Alone except for his two old dogs, Indigo and Blue.

They stayed by his side for weeks until his body is found.

It's the sort of tragic story that makes people wonder how it could happen, and often ends sadly for all involved — including the faithful pets.

That was the scenario faced by Tasmania Police when they entered a property in the north of the state to check on the welfare of the occupant.

While nothing could be done for the elderly owner, the police called the local dog catcher, Des, who "has a way with animals" according to Emma Haswell, the founder of Brightside Farm Sanctuary.

Des called Ms Haswell, who had already heard about the dogs.

"The owner had died, and no-one knew, and he had been dead for two weeks when the police found him," she said.

"His two dear old dogs protected him and wouldn't let the police go near him, they were guarding their owner.

"It would have been very stressful for the dogs and very difficult for them when the police came in and they didn't know what was going on. They were very, very protective. Apparently the police weren't game to go near them.

"Nobody from the family could or would take them, so their future was looking pretty grim, so I said I would [find them a new home]."

The two old dogs are believed to be 10 and 12 years old, and Ms Haswell said it was likely they would have been euthanased.

 

"I was amazed. They were the most beautiful dogs. They were adored. You just want to squeeze them," she said.

"They are mother and daughter, so the [red] heeler is the mother, and the kelpie-cross is the daughter.

"When I took them to their new home, I took them out into the garden to explore and it was just gorgeous. The daughter kept looking back and checking on the mother as they wandered around — they're really bonded.

"They're well cared for and in good health."

New life for old dogs

 

It's not always easy to find the right home for older dogs. They often have complicated and expensive medical problems.

A friend of Ms Haswell's was sceptical when she said she was going to find them beautiful homes.

"And I rang her about five hours later and said 'Guess what? they've got the best home!' and it's with an incredibly good vet who does mainstream vet work, but also does acupuncture and all those things," Ms Haswell said.

 

"She took another old dog from me once before … a 10-year-old shepherd that had been left out the back of a fish and chip shop and had been in a terrible state of ill health — he could hardly walk.

"And he looked and behaved like a five-year-old dog by the time she had finished with him."

Ms Haswell said it was a good story among those of the swathes of abandoned and unwanted animals that people want her to take each week.

"Just pages of animal surrenders for the past six weeks — it's just insane. Every day getting numerous calls about dogs, heaps of rabbits, guinea pigs — it's very difficult when you can't say yes to them all," she said.

"It's nice when you can just pluck some animals out of something awful and just transfer them straight into paradise, it's just a really good feeling."

Rick Crew

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Always got a chuckle out of the saying "Dogs are a man's best friend." Which leads to my next conclusion women are not a man's best friend.

DougRichards Crew

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Always got a chuckle out of the saying "Dogs are a man's best friend." Which leads to my next conclusion women are not a man's best friend.

 

Women are never a man's best friend:

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Always got a chuckle out of the saying "Dogs are a man's best friend." Which leads to my next conclusion women are not a man's best friend.

 

Women are never a man's best friend:

 

Can't live with them, can't bury them under the patio... :)

 

Cheers for putting up the story about the old dogs Doug, quite heartwarming bless them.

 

BillB

DougRichards Crew

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Always got a chuckle out of the saying "Dogs are a man's best friend." Which leads to my next conclusion women are not a man's best friend.

 

Women are never a man's best friend:

 

Can't live with them, can't bury them under the patio... :)

 

Cheers for putting up the story about the old dogs Doug, quite heartwarming bless them.

 

BillB

 

 

By the way, a photo that was missed:

 

 

The book of Isaiah mentions lions and lambs, and children with snakes: I know of a student minister who wrote an essay on the place of animals in the kingdom of heaven. Surely the expressions on these two is an affirmation of that.

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I kept 2 cats. The older one is still around in Shanghai at 17 years old.

 

But here is my dog story.

 

My wife had a pet dog at the home where she lived with her parents. After we got married, we decided not to bring the dog to our home because I already have 2 cats and soon, a baby girl.

 

So 5 years ago, my child was older, we finally brought the dog to live with us. By then, the dog was very old, and near its end. Being a cat person, I never interacted with the dog much, other than the occasional pat, and the dog was too old to really interact much unlike in its younger days. So in short, I did not understand nor "speak dog".

 

Lazy bugger that I am, I'd never walked the dog nor picked up dog shit etc. Rationale was that I do the cat shit, wife (and in-laws during the day) take care of dog.

 

One late night the wife was already asleep and I heard the dog barking - not very loudly or constantly - and scampering around.

 

I went out to investigate and observed a strange behaviour I didn't understand. Normally quiet, and not moving very much, she was barking and looking out the balcony of my apartment, running to the door, and repeat.

 

After about 10 mins, I finally got the message.

 

She was basically saying: "I need to go downstairs (barking at balcony), to pee, so take me downstairs NOW (running to the door), you stupid man."

 

By the time I got the message and took her outside, she peed at the lift lobby even before the lift arrived.

 

I started appreciating dogs from that night. I was really amazed at the communication attempt. Cats don't do shit like that.

 

She passed not long after. She lived with us less than a year but good thing it got to spend its final year living with her childhood friend - the wife.

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What a horrible way to go. A friend of mine told me about a case where a gal got mauled to death by her boyfriends pit bulls. They just turned on her one day. She was alive for a while as they mauled her. Such a brutal death.

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I kept 2 cats. The older one is still around in Shanghai at 17 years old.

 

But here is my dog story.

 

My wife had a pet dog at the home where she lived with her parents. After we got married, we decided not to bring the dog to our home because I already have 2 cats and soon, a baby girl.

 

So 5 years ago, my child was older, we finally brought the dog to live with us. By then, the dog was very old, and near its end. Being a cat person, I never interacted with the dog much, other than the occasional pat, and the dog was too old to really interact much unlike in its younger days. So in short, I did not understand nor "speak dog".

 

Lazy bugger that I am, I'd never walked the dog nor picked up dog shit etc. Rationale was that I do the cat shit, wife (and in-laws during the day) take care of dog.

 

One late night the wife was already asleep and I heard the dog barking - not very loudly or constantly - and scampering around.

 

I went out to investigate and observed a strange behaviour I didn't understand. Normally quiet, and not moving very much, she was barking and looking out the balcony of my apartment, running to the door, and repeat.

 

After about 10 mins, I finally got the message.

 

She was basically saying: "I need to go downstairs (barking at balcony), to pee, so take me downstairs NOW (running to the door), you stupid man."

 

By the time I got the message and took her outside, she peed at the lift lobby even before the lift arrived.

 

I started appreciating dogs from that night. I was really amazed at the communication attempt. Cats don't do shit like that.

 

She passed not long after. She lived with us less than a year but good thing it got to spend its final year living with her childhood friend - the wife.

 

Mine used to nudge her water or food bowl, followed by a baleful stare saying 'Ok so its empty, someone needs to fill this again, ok?' :D

 

Though this was good, US Airman meets his dog after 2 years abroad.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/animals/us-airman-reunites-with-dog-after-two-years-apart/vi-AAxBlLo?ocid=UE13DHP

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Dogs at the front, and helping those who have served: humanity would be so much less without them.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-26/dickin-medal-awarded-kuga-dog-canberra/10433054

 

'Victoria Cross for animals': Military dog Kuga posthumously awarded Dickin Medal for bravery

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When military dog Kuga and his special operations handler Sergeant J were choppered into Khaz Uruzgan in Afghanistan on a mission to locate a high-value Taliban target, they didn't know they were walking into an ambush.

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  • Kuga is the first Australian dog to be awarded the Dickin Medal for animal gallantry
  • Kuga was shot five times during a Taliban ambush in 2011
  • He was treated by vets in three countries, but died almost a year after being injured

 

Nor did they know Kuga's bravery on that day in August 2011 would make him the first Australian animal since World War II to be honoured with the Dickin Medal, known as the Victoria Cross for animals.

"I let Kuga off to patrol ahead and scout," Sergeant J said.

Before long, the Malinois indicated he could sense something lying in wait.

"[He] pushed off to the left and down into a creek bank and I sort of lost sight of him," Sergeant J said.

"I could see the rounds kicking up around him in the water."

"As Kuga was starting to swim across the river, that's when the first burst of automatic gunfire came in around him.

Despite the gunfire, Kuga pushed on to the other side of the river, where he charged the shooter, and grabbed onto him.

"That forced that insurgent to target him as opposed to targeting us," Sergeant J said.

 

"The insurgent had an AK-47, and managed to get a shot onto Kuga, which forced him to let his grip go."

The insurgent escaped, but not before Kuga was shot five times and sustained shrapnel wounds to much of his body.

But he didn't give up.

"Kuga was there, he was sort of sitting there I could see his leg was broken," Sergeant J said.

"I thought I'd give it a chance and see if he'd come if I called him."

 

Slowly, the injured dog made his way to the water's edge and swam back to his handler.

Despite Kuga's serious wounds, nobody gave up on the dog.

Sergeant J provided immediate care, and an emergency medical evacuation was called in.

Kuga spent the next nine months with vets in Afghanistan, Germany and Australia, who treated him and attempted to rehabilitate him.

"He was in a pretty bad way at that point," the handler said.

But the stress the injuries and recovery process placed on him proved too much, and he died in July 2012.

'He saved lives that day'

 

Today Kuga became the first Australian dog to be awarded the Dickin Medal, which recognises the gallantry of animals during war service.

The only other Australian animals recognised by the medal are two carrier pigeons that served in World War II, the last of which was recognised in 1947.

Mary Reilly from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), which awards the Dickin Medal, said it was given out very rarely for only the most conspicuous bravery among animals.

"Kuga's sacrifice was an ultimate sacrifice," she said.

"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous.

"It has become known as the animals' Victoria Cross."

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Twitter: Chief of Army Rick Burr tweet: On behalf of the @AustralianArmy, I wish to acknowledge special operations military working dog Kuga on being awarded the @PDSA_HQ Dickin Medal. Known as the VC for animals, the award reflects the actions & courage Kuga demonstrated supporting troops on operations in Afghanistan.

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Victoria Cross recipient and former military dog handler Mark Donaldson VC accepted the medal with service dog Odin on Kuga's behalf.

"I personally am of the opinion that he saved lives that day," he said.

"The ambush would not have been sprung early enough so they would have stumbled into that killing zone.

"If you take Kuga out of the equation … with reasonable doubt they wouldn't have known the enemy was there."

Kuga's medal will be displayed at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra from next year.

"I'm pretty proud of what Kuga did that day," Sergeant J said.

"Ultimately that enabled me to come home to my family."

"He's the one who chose to go forward, he's the one who chose to take bullets for both me and my mates.

 

 

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-26/invictus-games-service-dogs-provide-support-to-competitors/10435024

 

Invictus Games service dogs provide comfort and support to combat the stresses of competition

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When Ben Farinazzo arrived at his first-ever powerlifting competition at the Invictus Games he was overwhelmed by the stadium's narrow corridors and the shattering noise of the crowd.

He felt bowled over by the adrenaline pumping through his body and was terrified of overstimulation.

Enter service dog Tank, a 15-month-old Labrador, who was called upon to give the former Australian soldier much-needed comfort.

Despite officials' requests for no dogs on the field of play, Tank was desperate to settle Farinazzo and refused to be left behind, so he walked out on to the field with him to the crowd's surprise.

Tank is one of 12 service dogs working around Sydney Olympic Park during the Invictus Games, offering support to competitors as they grapple with a busy and complex environment.

"Trying to listen to instructions from the marshal with dozens of other international competitors was very challenging and overwhelming and I found myself shaking," said Farinazzo, who achieved a personal best in the powerlifting.

 

"But Tank had this remarkably calming feeling over me that was totally unexpected.

"Tank was not only a distraction but a friend."

Farinazzo first met Tank in Canberra on World Mental Health Day earlier this month and was ecstatic when he ran into him again at Invictus.

"He is a blessing," he said.

"For me, with my PTSD , depression and anxiety, I find it hard to maintain mental balance while there's a lot of white noise in the background, while I have to concentrate on instruction.

This was made worse by the pressure of the world watching his first powerlifting competition.

'It's easy to accept their presence'

MJ Batek from Canada also sought support from assistance dogs this week as she competed in swimming, archery and wheelchair basketball.

"After getting out of the pool I was exhausted, felt sick and overwhelmed by the noise, and I couldn't hear the starting buzzer due to my tinnitus, which I didn't expect," she said.

"I just saw everyone else dive in and thought oh … I better go."

After this Batek, who suffers PTSD due to being sexually assaulted in the military, went to find Labrador Molly, who was working behind the scenes at the pool.

"I needed something — I don't want to go to a counsellor, I don't want to go to a teammate because they are about to compete — but I could come and hug one of the dogs," she said.

"It's easy to accept their physical presence when you're in that moment … there are a lot of triggers here."

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