Showing 17 posts tagged with "dog tales"
Melissa Joseph and Baxter
Please read Janet Kinosian’s beautiful post about Baxter, a certified therapy dog. At 19.5 years, Baxter was the world’s oldest therapy dog, working — at the end of his own life — with end-of-life patients at a hospice.
This video shows Baxter with some of his patients:
A book about Baxter will raise money for various rescue charities. Baxter died not long ago, but even in death he will bring comfort to others.
A two-year-old boy was lost for 25 hours in the Yukon, but was kept safe by a dog he encountered there.
Searchers found the two together and said the boy had apparently followed the dog, Koda, through the woods and huddled close to it to stay warm.
Koda’s owner, who said it was “amazing” the two [...]
A woman shares fond reminiscences of a special Golden Retriever who touched the lives of all she met.
Kujo, a 120-pound Presa Canario, went under his family’s deck to get away from a storm. But he broke through a piece of rotting plywood and fell 30 feet down an abandoned well. After several hours, and a lot of teamwork, he was safe above ground again.
MSNBC has the rest of the story, including video.
ABC News has a recap of First Dog Bo’s early days in the White House.
The media storm has resulted in a Bo baseball card, complete with factoids (for instance, though he’s a Portuguese Water Dog, he can’t swim). There’s also video at the link of Bo’s close encounter with a reporter’s microphone.
