[buzzyboop]

Let PETA pay for it..

[smith288]

I saw pictures of the dog running across the bow and I did feel bad for the poor dog... she is probably eating the dead persons remains or something... Im a dog owner with a 3 yr old dobie and she is family to me...i wouldnt leave her behind and would ask even Peta to help me... yes, i love my dog THAT much..... Its what Peta is good for...rescuing dogs.

"People for the Emergency Transport of Animals" sounds about right...

[CPOSharky]

"I think it's ridiculous," said Cyndi Damo, a dog owner from Huntington Beach, who is visiting Honolulu. "There's many ways the money could've been better spent – there's still children that go to bed hungry."

And how many children could your vacation money have fed?

Sheesh!

[mlmr]

Let me understand this, The coast guard will no longer rescue and tow stranded boats that are not in serious difficulty, but will rescue somebody's dog??

[Joe 6-pack]

PETA folks don't have the courage to do something such as rescue this dog. I remember in Korea during the Monsoon season a bull got swept into the Imjin river and ended up on a land mined island between the two Koreas. Of course the SK equivalent of PETA was far too busy protesting the American presence and Keh-gogi houses. Ultimately, it was the ROK Marines that went to save the animal in an operation planned with tremendous precision. I don't remember if they drew nk fire, but that was a fear during the planning process!

In as much as the dog's owner is Taiwanese, it only begs the question as to whether or not it is destined for the table anyways...

[Fzob]

This is a good example of stupid journalism.

Coast Guard is prepared to spend taxpayer dollars on what has become one of the most expensive animal rescues ever.

That is not what's happening.

The Coast Guard has allotted up to $250,000 to avert an environmental disaster..

The Coast Guard gets to tow the damaged vessel in and then the stupid dog can be rescued at nearly no cost. They are not spending tax payer money to save the dog

An engine room fire aboard the Indonesian tanker

Please send the bill to Indonesia.

[Honcho]

"It's not tax dollars. It's not coming from people that don't like animals," said Martha Armstrong of the national Humane Society

So if you a taxpayer you don't like animals? These people are morons.

[norraad]

The poor dog is stressed, of course, but feels even more danger from attempts to remove him from "his home"(8 years there).

I work at a refinery & no one can catch the Beagle who lives there somehow for years now.

We're going to have a lot more accidents at sea, commerce ships have suffered the effects of penny pinching corpo-fools something awful lately, a thousand ticking time bombs floating about the seas.

[Go Gordon]

It is unclear why Forgea was left behind during the rescue, but the Taiwanese captain – the dog's owner – said there may have been a language barrier between himself and the rescuers from the cruise ship.

He probably told the rescuers that his dinner was still on board and they ignored him.

[fourdeuce82d]

"I think it's ridiculous," said Cyndi Damo, a dog owner, "there's still children that go to bed hungry."

Feed them your dog.