A Cheer For The Four-Legged Heroes!

Myself ^ | Myself

[GREYGOST]

The only place you will be likely to see dogs in action is during drug raids! Saving people is not on the agenda at the moment! If saving people was on the plate, the toxic levels of hazardous materials (asbestos, Freon, Etc.) that were flying at very lethal concentrations would have been announced by the authorities, right? It was not. People, rescue people were covered in toxins. Believe it!

[BonnieJ]

Dogs have often rescued others on their own. Humans are not the only courageous beings on earth.

[BonnieJ]

By "others" I mean people, of course. I think TexasForever has never owned a dog or spent much time around them.

[dandelion]

Naw, you didn't offend me. I know everybody has a different experiences: but I place dogs WAY above so-called sports "heroes". "Hero" is a word I don't use lightly...

[Texasforever]

y "others" I mean people, of course. I think TexasForever has never owned a dog or spent much time around them.

Oh please I have a Husky that I love dearly and have "been aroud dogs" for 58 years. Look, drop it.

[BonnieJ]

I don't use it lightly, either, but this past week has shown that many are far more heroic than they ever realized was possible. I feel sad to see those dogs, though, & one even died of exhaustion on Monday. No, they didn't choose to be there but they have worked as hard as any of their human partners have and often in more hot & dangerous areas.

[dandelion]

Don't feel bad - my dad was a WWII vet and I couldn't call anybody a hero unless they had served their country, died for their country, or saved somebody's life. Man, did I ever want to call Batman a hero but NOOooo...

[Dan Day]

. I read once that search and rescue dogs (as opposed to cadaver dogs) become agitated when they don't find live people.

I read several stories about the rescue dogs at the OKC bombing site, and how over the many days of the search they became so upset over finding nothing but dead bodies instead of live people to rescue, that some of the rescuers got the idea to go lie down in the rubble and then let the dogs find and "rescue" them. It did wonders for the dogs' dispositions.

[BushMeister]

[SheLion]

Being an avid animal lover, I call these dogs HERO’S!!! I cry everytime I see them going through their paces at Ground Zero! Last night, one German Shepard looked at the camera, and he looked so proud!!!! Then, his trainer must have said something, and off they went, to do another job!

Yes, they are hero’s!!! They do their job selflessly and ask no questions! I cried like a baby the other day when I heard that one got killed!! It was too much to bear……..

People have a choice as to where they are…animals do not……….the dogs put so much trust in their trainers and to watch them go through their paces is mind boggling!!!

[Darheel]

Dogs is good.

[G-Bear]

There's a bumpersticker you'll see at the dog shows, "The more people I meet, the more I like dogs!"

[Rose in RoseBear]

For anyone interested in the heroism of dogs and cats, see the websites www.dogsinthenews.com and www.catsinthenews.com.

The www.dogsinthenews.com site has a nice picture gallery of dogs working The Site and doing other law-enforcement jobs around the world.

[Senator Pardek]

"Please let it be a half eaten burger and not a bomb!"

[skr]

Considering that dogs can't perspire (it was terribly hot at ground zero), can smell hundreds of times better than we can (just imagine all the burnt and jet fuel smells) and were not equipped with any sort of footwear at first (just imagine walking in hot ash, on glass, cement and iron), I can't imagine not being able to at the very least call them heroic. None of them ran away or apparently just lay down and did nothing. Dogs don't naturally go toward such circumstances. They were well trained and that one actually died of exhaustion tells me he and his master were pushing themselves to the limit and beyond, most heroic indeed.

I hope that, at the very least, they equip them with paw protection in the future.

[Simcha7]

Shalom!

Hi...skr and All Freepers Who Support Our K-9 Heroes!

Just so that you are aware, a Canadian Company...MUTTLUKS INC. Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Very Generously Donated Thousands of sets of Special Work Boots for ALL of The Search and Rescue Dogs Serving at the WTC Ground Zero site in NYC.

Muttluks got together with other Canadian Dog Boot Companies and coordinated with them in order to send not only the Special Work Boots, but other Protective Equipment as well. They also sent Dog Food and other products.

All of this was Flown into NY by Special Air Delivery from Canada.

So, if your precious Pets need Boots, Winter Coats, Rain Gear or any other products...Please check out MUTTLUKS, INC.

Here's the Web Site for MUTTLUKS INC: www.muttluks.com

Please call or write to say a kind word of Thanks to our Good Neighbors in the North Country!

GOD BLESS ALL OF OUR HEROES, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[Flyer]

WOOF!

[NYCVirago]

I was having a discussion with someone about dogs vs. cats, and he sent me this tidbit of information:

"Because cats can see so well in the dark, the U.S. Army tried to use them during the Vietnam War. Cats were put on leashes to lead foot soldiers through the night jungles. But the felines were a flop. They hated their leashes, ran off to chase after bugs, and refused to trek in the rain."

[skr]

Thank you for the link. I once had a dog whose paws were burnt by the road during a walk on a hot summer's day here in Florida. Her immune system was apparently deficient and what should've been taken care of by prompt attention and antibiotics resisted healing. It took quite a while for it to be resolved, which is why I was so happy to hear that boots had been donated. The photos of the ash-covered paws made me wonder why the trainers apparently hadn't even given paw protection a thought. I'm very glad that our friends to the north did.