Showing 17 posts tagged with "dog tales"
An 89-year-old man who was stranded for two days after his ATV overturned was protected from circling cougars by his “big black dog,” Jake.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has the details.
An Israeli woman couldn’t bear the thought of putting her boxer in the cargo hold while they flew from Paris to Israel. So she paid for the entire business section of an El Al flight so the dog could be with her.
The UPI article doesn’t explain why the woman was unable to purchase a single [...]
We know that dogs’ olfactory abilities are amazing, so much better than humans’. Dogs’ keen sense of smell even has health care applications.
And we know that dogs sometimes demonstrate extraordinarily nurturing traits with people and other animals.
Jewel is a special dog. Her person, Oakland, CA resident Charlotte Cook, shares Jewel’s story.
Everyone in Japan knows the story of Hachiko. The Akita who spent years waiting for his master is so beloved that a statue in his honor sits at the train station where he kept his vigil.
Now Hachiko’s story has been transferred to an American context in a new film with Richard Gere.
I’m not sure how [...]
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Let your voice be heard! Kathy Nimmer, a blind high school English teacher and writer from Indiana, has launched an international effort to gather true stories about people with all types of disabilities and their service dogs, to be included in an anthology that Nimmer will [...]
