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Dog Guides Blind Runner
This Golden Retriever Smile is one reason these dogs are so adorable. Their ability and willingness to work as aides to the blind and disabled is another.
Running a cross country race is a daunting task for anyone. But think of trying to run that type of grueling race course if you are blind. Being a blind runner would be very difficult.
Ohio teen Sami Stoner doesn’t let a little lack of vision stop her from doing the running she loves. But she can’t take all the credit for putting herself in the races, her Guide dog named Chloe gets credit for Sami being in the running too. In fact, without Chloe this blind runner would have little chance of competing.
From MSNBC;
“I don’t run for time or place or anything, I just run because I love it, and I’m glad I can share my love of running with Chloe now,” says Sami, a junior at Lexington High School who’s on the junior varsity cross country team. “I love having Chloe. She’s helped me so much.”
Now in her fourth year running cross country, Sami won a waiver from the state high school athletic association that allows her to compete with a dog. The golden retriever puppy, who guides Sami through the crowded hallways at school, also takes her safely through the running trails of Ohio.
“She watches out for roots and she tries to pick the clearest path for me,” Sami says cheerfully. “The ways she moves, I can feel it in her harness, so she has little ways to signal which way to go and what to do.”
We all need to remember that none of us us are perfect. Some of us have things that are quite evidently wrong and can be seen just by looking at us. Others have things that are wrong too, but they are not where you can see them so are not so evident.
Whether it is your body or your spirit that is less than whole, the thing we must all remember is we need to just find a way to work through and around our disabilities. Help will come to us when we least expect it and in ways we never imagined.
Chloe is a working dog and does her work extremely well. Watch for dogs like Chloe and give them and their people room to get past. Remember not to try to engage the dog or pet them unless you clear it with the person the dog is guiding or aiding. When these dogs are working, their focus is entirely on the job at hand and they don’t need outside interference from people wanting to pet them, give them treats or divert their attention in any other way.
Posted in Amazing Animals, Animal Behavior, Dogs Tagged animals, dog, Dogs, pet, puppy Leave a comment
Squeeeel!, Baby Leopards
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. From Wikimedia Commons Photo by Nancy Vandermey of EFBC"s Feline Conservation Center, Rosamond CA http://www.wildcatzoo.org
Big cats have very possibly the cutest babies of all in the animal kingdom. However, baby wolves, polar bears, all other bears, all other canines….Well, you get it. They are really all cute.
I don’t know, it is just something with the big cats that intrigues me and makes me squeeeel. The little guys in the video below aren’t doing anything but sleeping. They still turn me to mush. These baby leopards are completely huggable and kissable. They are almost too cute for humans to see.
Man, I know these are not pets and shouldn’t be, but I would really love to be around them anyway. Then again, wouldn’t everybody?
Here is the description from the video;
2-month-old clouded leopard cubs Taji and Sumalee take a nap after their morning feed. These cubs were born June 14, 2011 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, WA.
Here’s the video.
Now tell me you didn’t get a warm and fuzzy feeling watching these guys. The other great thing is they are increasing the number of this endangered species, so its a twofer.
Posted in Animal Behavior, Cats, Endangered Species, Video Tagged animals, cat, Cats, pet Leave a comment
Cat Survives Gas Chamber Twice
I'm not supposed to scratch or bite my boo-boo, but it really, really ITCHES!
Sometimes I feel sorry for myself. Just now I was sad for me because my family is down with a terrible flu. We have been sick since my birthday which was New Years Day.
To make a long story short, I thought I deserved to feel sorry for myself……that is, until I read about a plucky little cat who refused to die when people tried to execute her in a gas chamber.
From MSNBC;
Officials at West Valley City’s animal shelter in Utah say the cat named Andrea hadn’t been adopted for 30 days when shelter officials tried to put her to death in October. She survived, so they gassed her again.
Shelter officials detected no vital signs and presumed she was dead after the second try, so they put her in a plastic bag in a cooler. But when they checked the bag, they saw she had vomited on herself and had hypothermia but was alive.
The shelter then decided to stop trying to kill her.
“It was just one of those things where they thought this cat obviously really wants to live,” West Valley City spokesman Aaron Crim told the Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/ylvSDw ). “Let’s give it a chance to find a permanent home.”
The newspaper reports the cat has since been adopted and shelter officials are investigating why the gassing failed.
I absolutely hate the idea that animals must go through so much just to prove they have a right to live. In my opinion, this cat should not have been put in the gas chamber the first time, let alone the second go round. We simply must get to the place where no-kill shelters the rule rather than the exception in this country.
I know sometimes an animal is too sick or too hurt to save and I understand that. What I can’t understand is murdering cats, dogs and other animals just because we humans decide there are too many of them or some politician gets a bug up their big butt and decides to thin out the pet population.
Wouldn’t the money spent on murdering these innocent animals be better spent on an intelligent spay/neuter campaign and laws? If we significantly reduce the number of “unwanted” puppies, kittens and other pets, it will be a whole lot easier to find forever homes for the ones that are here. Then maybe we can junk the gas chamber thing altogether and have only no kill shelters for the few animals that get lost or have other bad luck which puts them on the street.
I am smart enough to know that most people won’t be listening to what I have to say about this subject. That doesn’t mean I am going to shut up about it. It is the right thing to do and until my last breath I will be speaking out in favor of no kill animal shelters and rescues. I will speak for those who do not speak human.
Posted in Amazing Animals, Animal Behavior, Anti-Cruelty Campaigns, Cats, Spay and Neuter Tagged abuse, animals, cat, Cats, Dogs, forever home, kittens, pet, Puppies Leave a comment
Merry Christmas 2011!
I don't know, it just came and scooped me up. Really! Now, how do I get out?
I know Christmas isn’t until Sunday, but I saw these oh sooo cute! videos and just had to bring them to fluffy feet readers a bit early.
You all know I can’t get enough of cute animal pictures and videos and a sweet girl I know in California named Kathleen who has a beautiful pet cat named Benna loves cute cat videos and pictures too.
This post is a Christmas treat as well as a shout out to Kathleen, Benna, Grant,Molly and all the other wonderful fluffy feet family members. I know there are lots of boys and girls out there who have cats, dogs or other pets they love. This post is a shout out to all of them too.
I hope these videos are new to you. But if they are not, I’m sure you will be happy to see them again.
First up is a kitten who tries to catch the air coming out of a fan. She knows something is ruffling her hair but she isn’t sure what it is. She knows it is coming out of that pesky fan though and she intends to catch it. When she gets older she will probably think the fan and the laser pointer are related because the prey coming from them always escapes.
Next we will see a shaded golden Persian kitten named Cricket who is just being a normal kitten and amusing herself. She is so cute and fluffy though that you just want to pick her up and hug her. I guarantee after watching this video, you will want a Cricket of your very own.
Let it be the Merriest Christmas Ever!
Check back after Christmas Day, there will be some great things coming! Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays.
Pet Adoption Christmas Window
I'll be ready to take home before you know it. Will you take me?
The Department Store Macy’s is famous for their Christmas window decorations. I’m sure many of us have delighted at the wonder of the beautiful Christmas scenes.
This year as they have for the past six years the SPCA and the Macy’s store in San Francisco have come together to fill their Christmas windows with pets who are up for adoption. Together the partnership has found homes for over 2,000 animals and raised over $320,000.00.
Imagine being a child going up to the Christmas display window, pressing your face tight to the glass so you will be sure to see it all and then a puppy or kitten scampers over to gaze at you through the glass. What a wonderful surprise!
From our friends at Care2;
As the production supervisor for Macy’s Visual Windows puts it in the video below: “It’s really one of the nicest things that we do.”
The Care2 link has a video you can watch too.
This is such a great idea. I wish more retailers would do this and not only at the holidays. I really think a lot of great pets could find forever homes if they were just out there to be seen by animal lovers as they go about errands and do their shopping.
We need to put pet adoption right out there so people don’t get so busy with other things they forget about it. Pet adoption should be the best way to acquire an animal as a pet.
When we showcase adoptable animals, invariably almost all of them find homes. Pet adoption just needs to be put right up in people’s faces so they do it. We need to make it popular and what all the in people do. That way, people will follow and do the right thing. Until we no longer murder so many cats, kittens,dogs and puppies we have to go on the offensive.
