Day: December 21, 2013

My Name Is “Lucky”

Always a joy to post a good heart warming story about dogs…..I have said many times and will say it many more…..dogs are da bomb!

This story is just one of those that gives me a warm feeling down to my toes…too many dogs and cats are put down every day….they do not deserve that but thanx to us humans we have made it necessary……and then I see a story like this one and……..

(Newser) – Two years after he was put in a steel box and gassed with carbon monoxide, a beagle mix with a knack for survival will be proudly riding a float in Pasadena’s Rose Parade. Daniel was six months old when he was placed with 17 other dogs in a gas chamber at an animal control center in Alabama. Workers were amazed with he survived—scared but unscathed—and they reached out to animal rescue groups, finding a home for him with New Jersey motivational speaker Joe Dwyer, the AP reports.

Dwyer says Daniel’s story of survival has helped bring laws against the use of gas chambers in animal euthanasia in 31 states, reports the Star-Ledger. The pooch will be riding the Lucy Pet Foundation’s float with seven other shelter dogs in the New Year’s Day parade. The foundation, which runs mobile adoption and neutering clinics across America, chose Daniel as its spokesdog. ‘”He’s definitely one of the most joyous, happy dogs I’ve ever met in my life,” Dwyer says. “I think his positive attitude is why he’s survived.”

If you believe in a supreme deity then he/she intervened and saved this pup…..there was a purpose that he needed to fulfill……okay wipe the tears away……..Daniel is a “lucky” dog….just wish more were so lucky …….they need to be treated with respect and love….the same emotions that they give us mere humans……

Dogs R Da Bomb!

I will post any dog story that I find……I have had a dog in my family ever since I could remember….they have always been a vital part of the family and have been treated like one of the children…..so when I see a story that pulls on the heart strings I just have to pass it on….it has been all over the news but just in case you were too busy I wanted to pass it on…..

(Newser) – When a blind man fainted and tumbled onto subway tracks, his guide dog was there to protect him—and both survived being run over by a train. When Cecil Williams, 60, got lightheaded on the Manhattan platform, his black lab, Orlando, tried to keep him away from the tracks. But Williams fell, and Orlando headed down with him. With passengers reportedly screaming and seeking help, “the dog was sitting right in front of him, kind of like he was guarding him,” says MTA worker Lamont Smith. “Normally an animal, or another human being, would run. That dog stayed right there.”

“The dog jumped down,” another witness tells the New York Post. “He wasn’t pulled. He was kissing him, trying to get him to move.” Smith called out for Williams, who was in a trough between the rails, to put his head down as a train approached. When a dazed Williams finally got the message, Orlando put his own head down, too, Smith tells the New York Daily News. Williams was hospitalized with some cuts and bruises, while Orlando was unhurt. “The dog saved my life,” Williams tells the AP. But he fears he’ll have to put Orlando up for adoption: His insurance won’t handle Orlando’s care when the 11-year-old pooch retires soon, he says.

What more can I say?