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[h=2]Zanjeer, the dog who saved thousands of lives during the explosions in Mumbai - 1993, detecting more than 3,329 pounds of RDX explosives, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6,406 rounds of ammunition. Even police attended his funeral.[/h]
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Four dogs were inducted into the Purina Animal Hall of Fame on Monday in Toronto. Here are their stories:
Nettle, Yellow Labrador:
Service dog Nettle, one of Canada’s first diabetic alert dogs from the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides, was with the Bordman family and twins Brooke and Jade, 12, who both have a Type 1 Diabetes that leaves them susceptible to potentially fatal comas. They also have Celiac disease. Before Nettle, parents Terry and Beata had to take turns checking the girls’ sugar levels several times throughout the night. Within days of joining the family, Nettle’s sense of smell noted Jade’s blood sugar was dangerously low during the night and the dog alerted the parents, avoiding what could have a been a fatal coma, according to their father.
Badger, Lab-Rottweiler mix:
Badger was found in the woods by now owner Derik Hodgson, who lived alone in a remote cabin in Elgin, Ont. One day, during a hastily planned winter’s walk without a jacket or a cellphone, Hodgson fell on the ice, breaking his leg in two places and rupturing a tendon. Badger stayed by his side. Hodgson grabbed onto Badger’s collar and yelled, “Mush, Badger, Mush!” The dog then pulled him to his cabin and Hodgson was able to call for help. Hodgson was close to being severely hypothermic.
Bella, Anatolian Shepherd:
When Rob Sheardown was coming back to his Windsor apartment after a walk with Bella, his dog didn’t follow the routine of getting in the elevator. Instead, she pulled Sheardown towards one of the couches in the lobby where an elderly man was having a heart attack. Sheardown called an ambulance and Bella had her paw on the stranger’s arm until paramedics arrived.
Sako, King Shepherd (This dog was not present in the ceremony):
Joseph Phillips Garcia, 16, was in a tragic car accident an hour from home in Kanaka Bar, B.C. with his aunt, cousin, friend and dog Sako. Only Garcia and Sako survived. Sako protectively stayed by Garcia’s side for 40 hours in the wilderness until he was found.
Nettle, Yellow Labrador:
Service dog Nettle, one of Canada’s first diabetic alert dogs from the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides, was with the Bordman family and twins Brooke and Jade, 12, who both have a Type 1 Diabetes that leaves them susceptible to potentially fatal comas. They also have Celiac disease. Before Nettle, parents Terry and Beata had to take turns checking the girls’ sugar levels several times throughout the night. Within days of joining the family, Nettle’s sense of smell noted Jade’s blood sugar was dangerously low during the night and the dog alerted the parents, avoiding what could have a been a fatal coma, according to their father.
Badger, Lab-Rottweiler mix:
Badger was found in the woods by now owner Derik Hodgson, who lived alone in a remote cabin in Elgin, Ont. One day, during a hastily planned winter’s walk without a jacket or a cellphone, Hodgson fell on the ice, breaking his leg in two places and rupturing a tendon. Badger stayed by his side. Hodgson grabbed onto Badger’s collar and yelled, “Mush, Badger, Mush!” The dog then pulled him to his cabin and Hodgson was able to call for help. Hodgson was close to being severely hypothermic.
Bella, Anatolian Shepherd:
When Rob Sheardown was coming back to his Windsor apartment after a walk with Bella, his dog didn’t follow the routine of getting in the elevator. Instead, she pulled Sheardown towards one of the couches in the lobby where an elderly man was having a heart attack. Sheardown called an ambulance and Bella had her paw on the stranger’s arm until paramedics arrived.
Sako, King Shepherd (This dog was not present in the ceremony):
Joseph Phillips Garcia, 16, was in a tragic car accident an hour from home in Kanaka Bar, B.C. with his aunt, cousin, friend and dog Sako. Only Garcia and Sako survived. Sako protectively stayed by Garcia’s side for 40 hours in the wilderness until he was found.
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A big doggy lick cheers kids stuck in hospital
A big doggy lick cheers kids stuck in hospital
Barely 48 hours after open-heart surgery, 18-month-old Meghan Pacan is struggling to sit up on her mother’s lap. Like the sun breaking through the clouds, a smile lights up her face, coaxed by the warm tongue washing her foot.
Enzo is working his magic.
With wagging tail and gentle nudges, the soft-as-a-teddy-bear therapy dog gives the tot his unique brand of four-legged love.
Meghan’s parents, who’ve brought the little girl for treatment from their home in Sudbury, are thrilled.
“I can’t believe she sat up,” says her mother, Kim, kneeling on the floor as she cradles her daughter.
“She’s just really enjoying the dog,” adds dad, Matt. “It totally takes her mind off everything.”
As registered nurse Mallory Detzler puts it: “It’s a type of therapy we can’t provide.”
Patients, family members, visitors and staff all fall under the spell of the canine superstar as he makes his rounds at Sick Kids hospital every Thursday.
Enzo even has his own card, with mutt mug on one side and brief bio on the back, which owner-handler, Virginia Mantycki, hands out to his fans.
“I love you, Enzo!” Carol Yick, a volunteer at Ronald McDonald House, calls out as she drops an armful of supplies to hug the caramel-coloured standard poodle.
He’s one of 10 trained therapy dogs at SickKids that may be called upon to assist in physiotherapy activities, encourage a reluctant child to get moving post surgery or fulfill the last wishes of a patient in palliative care.
Enzo doesn’t know it, but he owes his role to a selfless young man and former patient, Adam Fedosoff, whom Mantycki and her husband Ron Mitchell met through the cycling community. Like Mitchell, Adam was an avid cyclist who helped raise awareness and funds for children’s cancer.
During the three years they knew him, they became “very close, Ron especially,” says Mantycki.
Adam died of complications from acute lymphoblastic leukemia in March, 2012. He was 17.
“It was Adam that inspired me when I saw what it was like for children with cancer and when I saw how he gave back all the time,” explains Mantycki, whose therapy visits with Enzo are in Adam’s memory.
The teenager touched the lives of “thousands of people,” his proud mother Lorraine Fedosoff acknowledges from her home in Barrie.
“He just wanted to make things better for others,” she says. For a child in hospital for long periods of time, as Adam was, “nothing is normal,” Fedosoff points out. “Having a therapy dog is so comforting.”
With their services provided free of charge by St. John Ambulance and Therapeutic PAWS of Canada, the dogs are a special breed of volunteer.
Adaya Goode would vouch for that if she wasn’t so busy giggling from the lazy licking Enzo is giving her feet and legs. A regular visitor to the hospital since she was a newborn, the 11-year-old from Simcoe has already had three open-heart operations.
“He loves being rubbed all over, don’t you, kiddo?” Mantycki says as the freshly bathed 60-pounder does his trademark lean into Adaya to be petted.
“He was so excited about coming to visit you that he didn’t have much breakfast,” she adds, handing a dog treat to the little girl to give the pooch before he settles in for a catnap.
“It’s so tiring being a celebrity,” Mantycki confides to Adaya, who has two stuffed dogs on her bed called Hope and Love.
Mantycki, a semi-retired businessperson from Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood, says both she and Enzo, who work as a team, had to demonstrate their suitability for therapy work. A St. John Ambulance evaluator told her: “Some dogs are just born to do this and Enzo’s one of them.”
Mantycki and Mitchell searched him out for his easy-going, happy disposition as a puppy six years ago. He had “kind of like an old soul feeling,” she recalls. “We quite fell in love with him.”
Certified as child-friendly, Enzo has been bringing joy to sick children for more than 18 months.
“I get tears in my eyes so often because it’s so touching,” says Mantycki. “All of a sudden, they’re smiling and happy.
“For a few moments, they’re away from needles and hospital.”
https://www.thestar.com/life/sick_k...doggy-lick-cheers-kids-stuck-in-hospital.html
A big doggy lick cheers kids stuck in hospital
Barely 48 hours after open-heart surgery, 18-month-old Meghan Pacan is struggling to sit up on her mother’s lap. Like the sun breaking through the clouds, a smile lights up her face, coaxed by the warm tongue washing her foot.
Enzo is working his magic.
With wagging tail and gentle nudges, the soft-as-a-teddy-bear therapy dog gives the tot his unique brand of four-legged love.
Meghan’s parents, who’ve brought the little girl for treatment from their home in Sudbury, are thrilled.
“I can’t believe she sat up,” says her mother, Kim, kneeling on the floor as she cradles her daughter.
“She’s just really enjoying the dog,” adds dad, Matt. “It totally takes her mind off everything.”
As registered nurse Mallory Detzler puts it: “It’s a type of therapy we can’t provide.”
Patients, family members, visitors and staff all fall under the spell of the canine superstar as he makes his rounds at Sick Kids hospital every Thursday.
Enzo even has his own card, with mutt mug on one side and brief bio on the back, which owner-handler, Virginia Mantycki, hands out to his fans.
“I love you, Enzo!” Carol Yick, a volunteer at Ronald McDonald House, calls out as she drops an armful of supplies to hug the caramel-coloured standard poodle.
He’s one of 10 trained therapy dogs at SickKids that may be called upon to assist in physiotherapy activities, encourage a reluctant child to get moving post surgery or fulfill the last wishes of a patient in palliative care.
Enzo doesn’t know it, but he owes his role to a selfless young man and former patient, Adam Fedosoff, whom Mantycki and her husband Ron Mitchell met through the cycling community. Like Mitchell, Adam was an avid cyclist who helped raise awareness and funds for children’s cancer.
During the three years they knew him, they became “very close, Ron especially,” says Mantycki.
Adam died of complications from acute lymphoblastic leukemia in March, 2012. He was 17.
“It was Adam that inspired me when I saw what it was like for children with cancer and when I saw how he gave back all the time,” explains Mantycki, whose therapy visits with Enzo are in Adam’s memory.
The teenager touched the lives of “thousands of people,” his proud mother Lorraine Fedosoff acknowledges from her home in Barrie.
“He just wanted to make things better for others,” she says. For a child in hospital for long periods of time, as Adam was, “nothing is normal,” Fedosoff points out. “Having a therapy dog is so comforting.”
With their services provided free of charge by St. John Ambulance and Therapeutic PAWS of Canada, the dogs are a special breed of volunteer.
Adaya Goode would vouch for that if she wasn’t so busy giggling from the lazy licking Enzo is giving her feet and legs. A regular visitor to the hospital since she was a newborn, the 11-year-old from Simcoe has already had three open-heart operations.
“He loves being rubbed all over, don’t you, kiddo?” Mantycki says as the freshly bathed 60-pounder does his trademark lean into Adaya to be petted.
“He was so excited about coming to visit you that he didn’t have much breakfast,” she adds, handing a dog treat to the little girl to give the pooch before he settles in for a catnap.
“It’s so tiring being a celebrity,” Mantycki confides to Adaya, who has two stuffed dogs on her bed called Hope and Love.
Mantycki, a semi-retired businessperson from Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood, says both she and Enzo, who work as a team, had to demonstrate their suitability for therapy work. A St. John Ambulance evaluator told her: “Some dogs are just born to do this and Enzo’s one of them.”
Mantycki and Mitchell searched him out for his easy-going, happy disposition as a puppy six years ago. He had “kind of like an old soul feeling,” she recalls. “We quite fell in love with him.”
Certified as child-friendly, Enzo has been bringing joy to sick children for more than 18 months.
“I get tears in my eyes so often because it’s so touching,” says Mantycki. “All of a sudden, they’re smiling and happy.
“For a few moments, they’re away from needles and hospital.”
https://www.thestar.com/life/sick_k...doggy-lick-cheers-kids-stuck-in-hospital.html
Everyone's best friend.
Photographers explore relationships between dogs and their owners
https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/03/living/cnnphotos-in-dogs-we-trust/index.html
Photographers explore relationships between dogs and their owners
https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/03/living/cnnphotos-in-dogs-we-trust/index.html
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[h=1]Dachshunds Are Awesome: Compilation[/h]
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Very Cute dog with the hiccups.
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