[EveningStar]

Miscellaneous Ping List

This is a general interest list. We cover everything from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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[robomatik]

aww! cute little poochie!

[EveningStar]

ping

[RichInOC]

Okay, I had a mental image of him with his tongue stuck to the ice, not the other end.

[GinaLolaB]

What a nice story. Thank God for a happy ending for this beautiful doggy.

[hellbender]

Did the human who rescued him have a little jug of brandy fastened around his neck?

[Spatha]

Good for Lil Duke!
Good story too...

[Peace4EarthNow]

Doggie ping!!!

[Shadowstrike]

Poor baby. Thank God for a happy ending.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Rescue Me Red!

[AnAmericanMother]

Pass the brandy!

[AnAmericanMother]

The most famous St. Bernard of all, Barry.

You can see from the pic that the old St. Bernard's Dog (early 19th century) didn't look at all like the modern version. More like the rest of the Swiss herding dogs - the Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, the Bernese, Appenzell and Entlebuch Dogs. Very bad weather in the 1810s killed off so many of the St. Bernards that they thought they would become extinct. They were outcrossed with Newfies which made them larger, spoiled the pretty head, and gave them a very thick long coat which is eminently unsuited for mountain rescue because snow and water freeze in it and weigh the dog down (which is more or less what happened here).

Sadly, the monks at St. Bernard Hospice no longer breed the dogs and they don't even have any anymore.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Asssss! Thaks for posting this nice story.