Dogs are animals of integrity. We have much to learn from them.
Category: People and their pets
The second welcome to the season of mists and autumnal colours.
With thanks to Mother Nature Network where these wonderful photographs were published. Last week’s set are here.
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The third and final welcome will be in a week’s time.
You all take care out there.
Just think what it would be like if all our nine dogs were as helpful as this!
Please, all of you dear readers, have a happy and relaxed weekend.
Let’s end the week on a light-hearted note.
There have been some pretty serious posts in recent days and I wanted to close off the week with something completely different!
The following was sent to me from Dan earlier on this week. It is socially incorrect and, for the sake of clarity, I don’t subscribe to this form of gender bias in any way.
But it sure is funny!
1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.
2. Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name.
3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor.
4. A dog’s parents never visit.
5. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.
6. You never have to wait for a dog; they’re ready to go 24 hours a day.
7. Dogs find you amusing when you’re drunk..
8. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing.
9. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, “If I died, would you get another dog?”
10. If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away.
11. A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert.
12. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don’t get mad. They just think it’s interesting.
13. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pickup truck.
And last, but not least:
14. If a dog leaves, it won’t take half of your stuff.
To test this theory:
An antidote of happiness between the stories of despair.
Yesterday’s post about Indonesia was a dark reflection of humanity. So, I regret, will be Thursday’s post.
So it seemed really nice to offer you this video.
Published on Jun 1, 2015
Please SHARE Zuzi’s story and help us find a loving forever home.
Estimated age 4 yrs, vaccinated, microchipped.
For more info or adoption requests please contact us on: contact@howlofadog.org; visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HowlOfADog or our website: http://www.howlofadog.org
Thank you!
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UPDATE: We have some very happy news: Zuzi was adopted and will be living from now on in Canada. Her adoptive family came to Romania and they returned to Canada with one extra passenger: Zuzi 🙂
Zuzi’s adoptive family knew the situation dogs from Romania have to deal with everyday and the suffering they have to endure, so they decided to adopt a dog and save a life.——————–
If we can’t save the planet, at least we can carry on saving the animals!
Welcome to the season of mists and autumnal colours.
With thanks to Mother Nature Network where these wonderful photographs were published.
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Happy November 1st to you all.
Is there no end to the relationship between our dogs and us!
The BBC recently carried a gorgeous news item under the heading of: ‘Fido, may I have this dance?’: The women who dance with dogs.
Meet the women who spend years training their pooches to pirouette, plié, and polka – in the competitive global sport of Musical Canine Freestyle.
Spanish film maker Bego Antón has travelled across the USA documenting this curious, and heart-warming, hobby.
She spoke to BBC World Update’s Dan Damon about the skill and practice – and good humour – involved.
Luckily, in this interconnected world we now live in, the BBC video interview made it on to YouTube.
Let me close with a further photograph.
Rather produces a new twist to that old expression, “He dances as if he had two left feet!”
See you tomorrow!
Another lesson from our dogs…..
…. that of not taking life too seriously at times!
I didn’t get to my PC until after 4pm yesterday afternoon and, frankly, didn’t have a clue as to what to post for today.
Then in comes Per Kurowski to rescue me with an email sent earlier in the day, titled: “I do not know if you saw this?”
“This” being the following video.
What incredible, beautiful animals they are!
Close neighbour, Dordie, sent me an email with a link to a recent item that was broadcast on CBS.
Published on Oct 1, 2015
For thousands of blind athletes across the country, just setting foot out the door can be a huge challenge. Now one special dog is helping his owner not just walk out the door, but run. Only on “CBS This Morning,” Barry Petersen reports on the extraordinary story of one man’s journey to find the perfect running mate.
Richard and Klinger, and all those who made it happen, Jean and I salute you!
At home with Canadian sled dogs.
There was an item on the BBC News website that I saw over the weekend that prompted me to do a YouTube search for the film clip. This is what I read on the BBC website:
Until the 1970s, it was impossible to travel around Canada’s Yellowknife region in the winter if you weren’t travelling by dogsled.
Even though transportation options have increased, sled dogs are still prized and prominent in this Arctic region.
Matt Danzico of BBC Pop Up was invited to visit with some sled dogs during the team’s trip to Canada.
Film by Matt Danzico.
Unsurprisingly, that BBC video wasn’t available on YouTube. But I did find this:
Enjoy!
All the indications are that, at long last, rain is heading our way!
Yesterday afternoon, the forecast for Grants Pass and area was:
Tonight (Friday): A 30 percent chance of rain after 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 53. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm after midnight.
Saturday: Rain before 11am, then showers likely after 11am. High near 71. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
As the crow flies, here in Merlin we are a tad over 10 miles to the North-West of the centre of Grants Pass. So we are holding our breath that we receive a decent wetting over this coming weekend.
All of which creates a wonderful lead-in to a recent item published over on Mother Nature News, that I am delighted to share with you.
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By: Catie Leary, October 15, 2015.
Bath time may not be a pup’s favorite activity, but if these comical “Wet Dog”‘ portraits are any indication, there may be a silver lining to this necessary evil.
The dog lover behind this endearing series is Sophie Gamand, a New York-based photographer who regularly focuses her lens on canines to examine the relationship they have with humans.
“Wet Dog is a series of dogs captured at the groomer during their least favorite activity: Bath time,” Gamand writes on her website. “I chose this activity because it is a very unnatural one for the dogs, yet it is a direct consequence of their cohabitation with humans.”
Seeing our best friends in such a vulnerable state can be comical and heart-wrenching — especially because canine facial expressions possess an uncanny resemblance to our own.
Gamand began photographing soggy doggies a while back, but after some of the images went viral, she felt compelled to put together a complete “Wet Dog” photo book.
The comical coffee table book, which is now available for purchase, is filled with 120 photos of these soaked doggies — each sporting his own unique post-bath expression.
Continue below for a look at just a few of the images featured in the book.
Learning from Dogs 