Posted on 01/02/2005 4:35:21 PM PST by Dallas59
Sangeeta, a mother of three boys, looks down on her eldest son, Dinakaran, seated, and the dog that saved his life, Selvakumar Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005. Sangeeta could only carry two of her boys and had to leave Dinakaran to fend for himself when a tsunami crashed into their village on Dec. 26, 2004. Selvakumar pulled Dinakaran out of the family hut and nipped and nudged him up a hill to safety. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson )
The dog's name is "Stay!"
Anyone with a disbelief in GOD, or that animals are not intelligent, or have no moral conscience, need read this story.
It is the nature of the Earth, unrespected by man, that caused this disaster. God set the world in motion. He does not interfere with invidual will. If you choose to stand agape, watching an incoming tsunami force wave, you will likely die.
But God was in the heart of that dog, like he is in the heart of all.
Well as a matter of fact, it could do tricks such as stay and roll over.
Tell me that's a joke.
"Slinky", then.
Not funny.
Laughter helps sometimes. We are far enough removed from this disaster that we can joke. Let us not go too far, though. I am sure that that family never considered eating their family pet.
Woof!!!
I have a dog named "Molly" who would be a double for that dog. Molly, is a cross between a Lab and a Huskie and she is a sweetheart along with her friend Gigee who is a cross between Aussie Shepard and Border Collie. Both are beautiful dogs.
And "woof" to you also.
I've seen that part of the world, trust me dogs, cats, and monkeys are not safe.
Heart tugger.
That pooch is going to be treated like a King in his human family!
He would be in mine, oh wait mine already are.LOL
I don't doubt it. Not being an Aussie farmer, I wasn't knocking dingoes. There are various theories that dingoes and some Native American dogs--especially the "Carolina dingo"--are relatively unchanged from early in the domestication of dogs. Seeing an Indian-from-India dog which looks like a dingo just sort of fits with that.
Check this out!
I have seen those studies that if you had many breeds of dogs and then just left them alone, after several or many generations, that is bascially what they would revert back to.
Awwwwww kind of article. Woof!
Ha ha! I ping and you pong.
Ping pong and woof woof!
Thanks for your ping, Salamander. I thought about you and our pups when I read this too.
(((((((Hugs)))))
They also resemble Ibizan Hounds, another "primitive" breed.
I have 4 of them now and have had many others over the years.
My late lamented Minnie once saved me and 5 other dogs from dying of smoke inhalation.
The woodstove chimney had some sort of "draft malfunction" and the smoke was pouring into the house as we all slept.
Minnie, who rarely barked or got "wild" about anything woke me up from what was surely a slow-suffocation "sleep" by barking -very- loudly and bouncing on my chest.
I slowly came to and realized what was going on and staggered around opening all the windows and doors.
I dragged the dogs onto the front porch and we all huddled there in the sub-zero February cold until the smoke cleared out of the house enough for me go in and shut the vents on the stove, thereby suffocating the fire.
I and all my dogs would've died in our sleep if not for her.
To this day, I don't know what got into her because such things just weren't "her style".
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