Please explain this phenom, then:
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Posted on 03/09/2012 11:25:21 AM PST by Daffynition
AMELIA, Ohio - When emergency workers found Carol Forste's body in Ohio after Friday’s tornado, they also came across one of her dearest possessions, her dog, still at her side.
The storm that killed his owner and best friend spared the dog's life, even as it crushed his spirit.
Kush, Forste's pit bull survived Friday's storm. Doctors at All Creatures Animal Hospital in Amelia, say it will take weeks for Kush to truly heal.
One look into his eyes and you can see he is still shocked and traumatized from Friday's tornado.
"Kush would not leave her deceased body's side...stood right next to her until they discovered her," said Dr. Dan Meakin, Kush's doctor.
Carol's death took an emotional toll on Kush. For days, he would not eat or drink.
(Excerpt) Read more at wptv.com ...
Ah, anthropomorphism.
That’s not necessary! What if Kush reads this?
We have a pittie too. I was in the hospital for almost a month last summer. He cried and tried to sit on my lap (all 80 lbs of him) the day I came home.
That’s why I used a big word...Dogs have limited vocabularies.
They’re also great at taking a joke. Mine just wag their tales when I make fun of them.
:-)
Stopped reading at pit bull. Horrible creature!
Surprised it didn’t eat her.
That’s more of a cat thing..
Please explain this phenom, then:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2682877/posts
My dad’s house was overrun by a tornado about 10 years ago. His house survived intact but his two neighbors’ houses were flattened and one of his neighbors was killed. The storm hit about 4am. At daybreak it looked like a war zone.
My dad’s dog was missing. They feared she had been picked up and flung into the nearby lake. Then about noontime, here she comes plodding down their street to the house. No idea where she had come from.
From that point on whenever a thunderstorm came through that dog was flying into the closet to hide.
Don’t be so stubborn. A dog that recognizes the *leader* of his pack is apt to stay with the leader. How is that [insert big word].
In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet. During his owner's life, Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never returning to the train station where Hachikō was waiting. Every day for the next nine years the dog waited at Shibuya station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
The toll on humans often eclipses the effect on critters.
You lost me.
Remind me of the circumstances surrounding the picture you posted today. Doesn’t seem to be related to the earlier posting....I would like to learn the details. Thanks.
The MSM thanks you for believing their drivel.
All Creatures Animal Hospital is affiliated with a no-kill shelter here in Clermont County. Two of my three dogs came to us as rescues from them, and they are amazing and loved members of our family.
They are wonderful people doing thankless work. This poor animal is in the absolute best of hands.
Why would things like loyalty and affection need to be only human characteristics?
For your consideration
True. My dad and his wife were right in the closet with the dog for those same thunderstorms :)
Please tell me you forgot the /sarc tag. :-)
Dogs are amazing.
Be my guest and go make fun of your dogs, troll someone else's thread for your jollies.
Call it anthropomorphic, habit, I don't know. But it happened.
Not at all. Please tell me why you think those things are only present in humans... ? Are you saying that dogs, for example, have no emotions? Seems false on it’s face. Dogs can be happy, angry, sad... playful. So what?
That’s good to know. Hopefully there will be enough traction to this story to have those who care to donate to cover the costs of his vet stay.
Bless you for adopting. :)
It isn’t possible that a Pitt was so sweet! At least that is what I often read.
Sad story...but a good doggie. Thanks for posting.
That is so sad, and so touching. Yes, cats are amazing too!
sigh....... you don’t know much about some dogs do you........
I have 4 dogs, one of them lays and watches the door that I leave the house through, waiting till I come back through it. I am sure he would sit by my dead body forever, waiting for me to get up again. The other 3 would sit there until they got hungry and then they would probably eat me.
Good dog!
Agreed.
BTW, what does “Kush” stand for in modern jargon...other than Marijuana?
I’d never insult a dog by ascribing human characteristics to them, they’re much better than that.
Before I get painted as a callous Michael Vick type... I have two dogs, both of which I adopted from shelters - one even though it has heartworms and might not survive them. I have no doubt they would “miss me” if I got hit by a bus and never came home again. But in the same way as I will miss the one with heartworms if it doesn’t survive? No.
I’m frequently amazed at how dogs conform to their masters and become “creatures of habit”, and also at how they behave in ways similar to man. It’s that similarity in behavior that lends itself so easily to anthropomorphism. But to conclude that similarity in behavior demonstrates similarity in cause (e.g. emotion) is an assumption without foundation.
When I say that my car doesn’t like cold weather, or that your plants seem happy, you understand that I’m referring not to actual emotions but to behaviors or attributes in some way resembling those of man.
This nonsense about dogs’ “grieving time” and “needing closure” and so forth is a trick of Darwinian atheists playing on our emotions - and on our epidemic loneliness in this ever-more-DISconnected society.
Heh!
I know you were joking, but you bring to mind an interesting point: God made man and the animals, and ascribed to each a place - a proper and good place. To move either from that place is not good.
Those who speak of their pets as “my children” (in lieu, perhaps, of real children) and treat them accordingly are doing neither themselves nor their pets any favors.
Make no mistake, I love my dogs. And they “love” me back as (in Daffynition’s phrase) dogs doing their job. But when I cease being their master and become instead their “friend”, both they and I will suffer for it. They need a master and I need to be it. It’s the way both they and I were made, and God called it “good”.
Well said.
Sorry to hear about your dogs having heart worms, but when I was growing up there was no way to prevent heart worms and the cure was about as bad as the disease; so most dogs were put to sleep when they got too sick. Having said that, most dogs had the disease for years and years before needing to be put to sleep. Our neighbor’s dog lived seven years between diagnosis and death. Since it was so common, no one thought much about it.
The shelter’s vet prescribed heartworm preventative for 12-18 months, as that’s the lifespan of heartworms. This is to kill any new ones while the existing ones die off. If the dog survives those already in her, she’ll likely be fine though her lifespan may be shortened. If those inside her do too much damage and cause her too much pain, however, I’ll have a very unpleasant duty to face.
She’s young, though, and has lots of room here to run and play and stay fit, so I’m hopeful.
Pit-bull story... pretty cool but sad too.
“Ascribing human characteristics to animals is.”
A mistake we’ll not likely make with you.
Maybe Fool is just projecting.
The Hindu Kush is a region in Afghanistan.
Wow. She might not have survived without the cat. A month is a long time.
"Her cat was in better shape than she was," Marc Levesque, incident commander with New Mexico State Police Search and Rescue, told The Associated Press. "Her cat was also hunting. (Page) ran out of food a while back."
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