Dog saved from death row survives car window jump at 70mph

A dog rescued from an animal shelter has survived jumping out of its new owner's car at 70mph.

An animal welfare group in Atlanta, Georgia saved Lulu from an Alabama shelter which puts down 95% of its animals.

Nan LaSalle from Small Dog Rescue was driving the Chihuahua mix home when she jumped out of the window.

Ms LaSalle is the dogs "foster mother" until the group can find the dog a permanent home.

Officials say the dog suffered cuts and bruises but no internal injuries and is recovering well.

Ms LaSalle told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "I saw her bounce up in the air and then roll and roll and cars were swerving all over to avoid her. When she quit rolling, she just got to her feet and started running straight up the centre lane of Interstate 285."

"It was weird, like something out of a movie," Ms LaSalle said. "You hear of people all the time who won't help, but so many people tried to help Lulu. No-one even blew their horn or said anything ugly."

She added: "If anyone deserves a great home, it's this little dog, who obviously has had a rough life, then got off death row and survived a 70mph leap onto 285. She just needs a nice, safe place with rolled-up windows."

Please contact Senators Daschle and Clinton, and Representative Gephart. There needs to be a Blue Ribbon Committee, and it needs to answer the following questions:

1. Was there any fore-knowledge that the dog was going to jump?
2. What precautions, if any, did the new owner/foster parents take which may have prevented the dog jumping?
3. What did the owner/foster parents do to cause the dog to jump? Was there mis-treatment involved?
4. Was the Canine Protective Services Sub-Committee for Special Congressional Oversight (CPRSCO)notified that the dog was being put in a foster home, and were there monthly scheduled visits?
5. Were the monthly visits, if scheduled, actually conducted, or was the paperwork fraudulent?
6. Shouldn't this dog being be removed from its current new owner/foster parents following this atrocious event, until the investigation absolves them of wrong-doing?

You get the drift. We need a special canine tax so that we can pay for proper Congressional oversight to prevent such actions in the future.

At first glance, this would appear to be a peculiar story about a dog with a too-small brain...

But the truth is that Lulu was leaping from her new owner's car toward a passing pickup truck's bed, in which sat an insolent 100 pound Doberman pinscher which Lulu believed was sorely in need of a lesson in humility.

She miscalculated her trajectory however...

And that Doberman lived to see another sunrise.

The same thing happened to me many years ago with our pet Schnauzer. My dad and I were driving down the road, I was in the passenger seat holding our dog, when all of the sudden she just jumped out the window. I stuck my head out and looked back only to see her role along the side of the road. My dad stopped the car and found her in someones yard on the other side of the road. She luckily made it through the traffic coming the other way. Apparently she saw a cat or something and just couldn't resist the temptation to take action. We were probably goin at least 50 mph, but she was had no injuries whatsoever. Needless to say, from then on I always kept the window at least halfway rolled up when she was along.

And this reminds me of another incident with one of our cats. She was out all night and I guess got cold so she climb up inside the motor of my car. I had no idea she was there so in the morning set out on my way to work. About 5 miles away from home I caught a glimpse of something black bouncing on the road in my rear view window. It took me a couple moments to realise that it was a black cat, that had a remarkable resemblance to our cat. I stopped the car and went back to the spot but couldn't find it. Instead of going on to work I went back home to see if our she was there. She wasn't. So I drove back to the spot, and with Mom's help, found our cat on the back porch of a nearby house. I think some of her fur was burned, but otherwise she was ok too.

Both are long gone now. Those are fond memories though, I guess.

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