Posted on 08/04/2007 5:43:18 PM PDT by freedom44
SHANGHAI, Aug. 1 -- A DOG in southwestern Chongqing Municipality is said to have swam across part of the flood-swollen Yangtze River every day to feed her puppies that were trapped on an island for almost 15 days.
Hua Hua reportedly swam more than one kilometer to Shanhuba Island, where her four newborn puppies were stranded due to rising water levels, Chongqing Evening News reported today.
Shanhuba's road links to the mainland have been inaccessible since mid-July because of the high water level, the report said.
The four puppies, about 10-days old, were said to be huddled together in some hollow bricks piled on the island, the report cited Huang Pinghui, a local who found the puppies on Friday afternoon.
A Chongqing Evening News reporter took Huang's boat and followed Hua Hua to the island yesterday afternoon.
The report said Hua Hua searched for food during the day on the mainland and swam to the island at night to feed her babies.
Touched by Hua Hua's care and dedication, residents gave the dog meat and other food, the report said.
Huang also told the newspaper that residents were considering finding a home for Hua Hua and her puppies after the floodwaters retreated.
Err... ooops.... sorry all!
And I would also include those who dump their kids at daycare so that they can while their time away on the tennis courts or at the Bridge table.
How cute! Are they Goldens, or Yellow Labs?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Have you decided who the Keeper is going to be?
My friends who didn't get a puppy out of a Lab litter here locally (they were 9th pick and she only had 6 puppies) are getting a pup out of a very nice HRCH line out of North Carolina. Looks like it's going to be a yellow male. They got 3rd pick on this litter because somebody gave up his place in line to my friends.
Golden retrievers, about 2 weeks old.
susie
Oh, that oughta be nice, are you going to get to train with them?
Thanks, they are making me crazy, they cried all night last night. They are nice and quiet in the daytime, sleep, etc, and then at night....they turn into weregoldens!
susie
My daughter calls her the Weasel Dog.
That's Tori on the right, and a much younger and pudgier Ruby on the left. Tori has been having some soundness problems lately, but it seems like she's pretty well recovered now. Still, she's 6 years old and has her HRCH already, I think they feel like it's time to start another dog along . . . . < g >
I had really good luck with a whiney Ruby by playing a radio for her. She still got us up at 5:30 a.m. for a long while, but that was because she didn't want to wet her crate. Now she can hold it all night long. She has turned out to be a ferocious chewer . . . we put her to bed with two Nylabones and an elk antler, but still had to get her the Orvis 'chew proof' bed, then she managed to unzip the zipper. So I sewed the zipper flap down, and that seemed to stop her, at least temporarily.
Weasel dog, now thats funny!
No, they won’t be black, and they’d better have more hair. I hope they would fetch a bird, but I doubt they would have as much style as your lab.
:)
susie
She tested into Intermediate Obedience last week (much to MY shock!) I put her into the only puppy obedience course I could find awhile back, she did o.k., but now I've got her with the best school in town. She definitely needs more work. She had her first puppy retrieving seminar Saturday (where the water pictures were taken) and she did fine, but she was nonplussed by live pigeons and hid behind Mama. Definitely got to get her some recently deceased ducks . . . .
If that bed is really chew proof, I should get one. Pauli doesn’t chew much, but if it’s stuff she’ll gut it! Oh, bad girl! Poor thing, she can’t have any stuffed toy or a bed.
Can I find them on the orvis website?
susie
Ruby has no undercoat that I can find, and the thinnest, slickest, oiliest topcoat ever. When she's wet, she looks like a black seal. She's about 1/4 conformation, but that line is what they call "dual purpose" - and has some hunting dogs in the background too. She sure didn't get anything from that side except her very correct head. Shelley has a pretty good body but her head is all field - long and snipey. If we swapped the bodies, we'd have one field dog and one conformation dog.
It's almost too high loft to use as a crate pad, but after they lie on it awhile it packs down to a reasonable level. It comes in round or rectangular.
It's been great for Ruby because she's so bony she was wearing the hair off her elbows lying on a little thin sheepskin that for some reason she doesn't like to chew.
Then they are super cute! Are they yours?
Oh yikes, a little pricey!
Of course, at that price, if they do chew it up I’ll have to get them a job so they can pay me back!
susie
At the moment, yes. :)
susie
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