Posts Tagged ‘dogs’
Russell Brand and his dog introduce apricots and cinnamon to the working man
You don’t need to like Russell Brand to see that he’s rather good at what he does. And what he does well is media with a lot of ‘me’. It’s made him wealthy and famous. Yesterday Brand went on twitter to talk about his dog, an Alsatian called Bear. He told us that two working-class men ‘independently described him in surprisingly poetic language. “Apricot” coloured said one. “Cinnamon” said another.’
Moose Allain nailed it:
Who would have guessed apricots are one of the working man’s five a day and the lower ranks have experienced cinnamon? Maybe they glimpsed the exotica in Brand’s walk-in larder when they were fixing his yurt?
Posted: 22nd, September 2020 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Why dogs stick their head out of car windows
Why do dogs stick their heads out of car windows? Because they can and you rarely ride with a tiger or a ferret on the front passenger seat? Nah, Truth is it’s all about the smalls.
“Dogs receive more olfactory stimulation with their heads fully outside the car versus inside the car. And even having the windows down only a few inches seems to provide enrichment and stimulation that dogs will seek out,” says Natalie Zielinski, director of behavior services at the Wisconsin Humane Society…
“When sticking their head out the window, they can smell every person in the street, every trash can they go by, every patch of grass, restaurant and other dogs. It’s like watching TV for us,” says Jennifer Cattet, an animal behavior researcher and owner of Medical Mutts, a service dog training center in Indianapolis.
Spotter: DiscoverMag
Posted: 1st, October 2019 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Data proves that owning a bulldog is for idiots
Thanks to David McCandless we know which dogs make the best pals. Considering six facts – intelligence, costs, longevity, grooming, ailments, and appetite – McCandless crunched the numbers and concluded that bulldogs are not worth the effort an expense.
Spotter: Knowledge Is Beautiful
Posted: 23rd, January 2018 | In: Money, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Woman takes picture of her dog after an operation at the vets absolutely off its face
Woman takes picture of her dog after an operation at the vets absolutely off its face (via @reddit).
Posted: 15th, October 2017 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dog steals the show at outdoor orchestra performance in Turkey
To Ephesus, Turkey, where the orchestra is playing among the ancient Greek ruins when a dog gatecrashes the show. And steals it:
Dog crashes outdoor orchestra performance in Turkey. https://t.co/O0pXTKDQ3y pic.twitter.com/Mjn8VdVQu1
— ABC News (@ABC) June 29, 2017
Posted: 30th, June 2017 | In: Music, Strange But True | Comment
Judge orders puppy killer to carry photo of it in his wallet for 2 years
John Garrett Burrow, 24, pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals. In 2014, the soldier tied up Riley, an 8-month-old Lab mix puppy, with parachute cord and threw it into McFadyen Lake in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The dog drowned.
The Fayette Observer says “Kelsey Burrow, 21, the soldier’s wife, awaits judgment for misdemeanor accessory after the fact for false Facebook accounts saying the dog died during surgery to repair a broken leg as part of a Go-Fund-Me money solicitation to pay for the surgery cost [Defense Attorney David] Courie said was about $2,500.”
Superior Court Judge Jim Ammons sentenced Burrow to 30 days in jail, 100 hours community service and ordered the dog killer to spend two years on probation, during which Ammons ordered him to carry a photo of Riley in his wallet.
The judge told Burrow: “What you did was horrible. Absolutely horrible. I don’t want this to be the ruination of your life, but I hope Riley’s legacy will bring awareness to animal abuse. There’s way too much abuse of animals. Animals need to be treated humanely.”
The judge is right. But the wallet order is nonsense. What 24-year-old carries wallet?
PS: there is evidence that dogs’ brains react similarly to human brains:
Although we are just beginning to answer basic questions about the canine brain, we cannot ignore the striking similarity between dogs and humans in both the structure and function of a key brain region: the caudate nucleus. … In dogs, we found that activity in the caudate increased in response to hand signals indicating food. The caudate also activated to the smells of familiar humans. And in preliminary tests, it activated to the return of an owner who had momentarily stepped out of view. Do these findings prove that dogs love us? Not quite. But many of the same things that activate the human caudate, which are associated with positive emotions, also activate the dog caudate. Neuroscientists call this a functional homology, and it may be an indication of canine emotions.
The ability to experience positive emotions, like love and attachment, would mean that dogs have a level of sentience comparable to that of a human child.
Animal cruelty is a heinous crime.
The Dog with Musical Ears (video)
This dog that sing and dance with his ears. Wow!
Posted: 2nd, December 2015 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Dog gets stick stuck in his urethra (photos)
Basil the elderly Jack Russell was out walking in Chapel Hill, Lincolnshire, when a shaft of plant got wedged up his urethra.
“He was walking like John Wayne when he ran back to us so I knew something was wrong,” says owner Jill Larcombe. “So I checked him and when I saw it I did a double take. I thought ‘oh my goodness, it can’t be’ – there was this stick-like shaft sticking three inches out of him. I tried to give it a little pull but he went ballistic.”
A vet, drugs and lubrication saved the day.
Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
LOL: Happy Traveler turns your cat and dog into an astral surfer (photos)
Happy Traveler “all Natural” calming chews reduces your nervous or anxious cat or dog. What’s in this “all-natural herbal calming formula for stressed, nervous, or anxious pets?” And where can we get some?
Active Ingredients:
Valerian
German Chamomile
L-Tryptophan
St. Johns Wort
Posted: 28th, September 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Smiley the therapy dog with no eyes brightens people’s lives
Smiley, a golden retriever, was born without eyes. He lives in Stouffville, Canada, working as a St. John’s Ambulance service dog. Smiley’s owner, Joanne George, rescued him from a puppy mill, when he was about 1 year old.
She introduced him to a deaf Great Dane named Tyler: She says:
“He was very scared, [the dogs] had never been out of that barn… Tyler was so bouncy and crazy and happy go lucky and [Smiley] turned into the same dog. He came out from underneath the tables where he was always hiding.”
She thought Smiley would make a good therapy dog.
“There was this man Teddy, [he had] no speech, no communication at all. [The staff] had never seen Teddy smile before. [He] smiled when Smiley got into his vision.”
If that doesn’t make you feel better about your day, nothing will…
Cute Dog Returns Lost Items for KLM Airlines
KLM, the Royal Dutch Airlines, uses a beagle (name: Sherlock, not Van Der Valk ) to help deliver items left by passengers landed at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to their rightful owners.
You know that contraband you thought better of bringing though customs? Well, here’s Sherlock coming to give it to…
Shoo! SHOO!!!
Posted: 24th, September 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Woman Jammed Her Finger Up Staffordhire Terrier’s Bum To End Attack On Her Beloved Jack Russell
“SHE’S my soulmate, and I love her so much and I was so glad she was actually saved,” says Ann Bendouli. “It said if you have a lighter, put it onto its bottom.”
Mrs Bendouli was walking her dog Jack Russell Lexie on Hampton beach, Australia, when a Staffordhire Bull Terrier attacked.
She had no lighter. But she had her fingers.
“I pulled pulled the tail up and stuck it right up to that knuckle,” she adds.
Yoooooowwwwww!
Man ‘Cooked’ Ex-Girlfriend’s Dog And Fed It To Her
TO California, where Ryan Eddy Watenpaugh, 34, of Palo Cedro, is accused of killing this girlfriend’s Pomeranian dog, Bear, and feeding it to her.
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Posted: 14th, September 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Manchester Dogs’ Home Fire: Teenager Bailed And Misty The Jack Russell Stars
Michael Parker, a local resident who in the past has homed dogs from the centre, holds Misty the Jack Russell outside Manchester Dogs’ Home, Manchester, after a blaze killed more than 50 dogs.
THE 15-year-old boy arrrested in connection with the blaze at Manchester Dogs’ Home has been bailed. The fire killed around 60 animals, but 150 dogs were rescued.
A JustGiving account set up by the Manchester Evening News has raised more than £1.2m.
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Cleveland Police Hang Dog For Death Of Pensioner
“A 73-year-old woman who was bitten by a police dog as it searched for a suspect in her garden has died in hospital, police said. Frail Irene Collins was attacked by the German shepherd on Wednesday inside her home in Penrith Road, Middlesbrough. Cleveland Police, which has already referred the matter to the police watchdog, expressed their “sincerest condolences”.”
Was innocent Mrs Collins killed by her frailty?
“Police watchdog” Cleveland’s Plods appear to remain , generally, barking mad on Teesside.
The Huffington Post illustrates the story with a picture of a police dog like the guilty (allegedly) attack dog. Which is not named but Fang springs to mind.
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The Hideous Story Of The Liverpool Man Eaten By His Neighbours’ Status Dog
SOME stories are so terrible they need repeating.
Clifford Clarke, 79, was cooking a meal in his Liverpool home. He opened the back door to let in some fresh air. Outside was a dog. Charlie was not his. The Presa Canario cross-breed had escaped from the garden of his neighbours Hayley Sulley, 30, and 29-year-old Della Woods. Charlie was one of the couple’s three dogs. All big dogs. All status dogs.
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Posted: 3rd, June 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Video: In Broughty Ferry Dundee An Impatient Dog Waits In The Car
MEANWHILE in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, a dog is waiting in a car:
Posted: 11th, March 2014 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Life Imitates The Day Today: Man Blows Up Pet Dog
TO Stevenson, Washington, to see Christopher Wayne Dillingham, 45, jailed for blowing up Cabella, the family’s dog he thought possessed by the devil. Dillingham claimed his ex-girlfriend, who had given him Cabella, had “put the devil” in the pet.
Posted: 5th, January 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment
In Which Jimmy The Frog Gets Eaten
DOGS v FROGS:
Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Dog Took Human Along To Burglary
THE story from Melbourne, Florida, is that the thief took a little black dog with her during a burglary last week. Brevard County police says the woman took a dog with her during the break-in:
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Posted: 9th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Council Snatched Pet Dogs As Owner Sat On The Toilet
“I WAS running and thought `oh my goodness’ I really need the toilet’,”said Patricia Abel, a 28-year-old out for a job on the Darwin foreshore. “I’ve been unwell and had a funny tummy, probably because of changing water, so I was quite desperate to get to a toilet and it could not wait until I got home. I’d jogged past the last public park toilet and it was a few hundred metres back, so rather than take Pepper all the way back with me I tied her to a bollard thinking she would be fine for a few minutes. I just thought I wouldn’t be able to make it in time if I had to drag Pepper all the way back to the toilet with me. By the time I got back she was gone.’
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Posted: 6th, December 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woof To Wash: The Wonderful Dog-Operated Washing Machine
REASONS to love dogs: No. 342c – they can wash your clothes.
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Posted: 24th, November 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
