Posted on 03/16/2011 4:47:33 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
It's a universal truth that dogs are man's best friend, but they're pretty darn loyal to their own as well. Case in point: this tear-inducing video, via the website Jezebel, showing a dog, shivering and disoriented, remaining loyally by the side of a stricken fellow canine amid the devastation of the Japanese tsunami.
The video is a stark reminder that, as was the case when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, there will likely be thousands of pets orphaned or involuntarily abandoned due to the catastrophe in Japan. If you'd like to help efforts to help these animals, you can find info on doing so here.
UPDATE: CNN and the UK Telegraph have both reported that the dogs have been rescued since the footage aired, and are both receiving veterinary care; the more seriously wounded dog is at a clinic in the city of Mito, while the protective spaniel-type dog is receiving care at a shelter in the same town.
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Even the Japanese Dogs have more class that alot of people that lived in New Orleans during Katrina.
It really IS sweet and the comments that these dogs are now sheltered is heartwarming
People need food and inspiration too. The Japanese announcer - whose countrymen are suffering - seemed pretty happy that the dog were going to make it.
Thank you Lord.
I hope they reunite the dogs once the sick one is better.
Thanks for posting. Awesome story.
You’re ugly inside.
When God first made the earth and man and all the other creatures, he took a step back and said "It is good... it just needs one more thing. Something to make just enough light at night that man and all my creatures can see to get around at night..."
Then God said, "Okay, you guys all step back, I'm going to do something." Whereupon he spoke and commanded a large chunk of the earth to be separated from the earth and to become the "moon" so it could reflect some sunlight back to the earth at night. The spot this chunk came out of is now called the Pacific Ocean.
There was just one problem - man, and all the other creatures had obeyed God and had gotten out of the way, except the dog, who was innocently running and playing and having a good time - and who was also on the wrong side of the fissure when the earth separated.
The man was watching this all happen, and was looking up for the dog. The dog ran to the edge of the chunk of earth, just lifting away and into space, and looked down.
The man said, "Jump!"
The dog jumped, and began the long fall back to earth. The man performed the first recorded feat of center-fielding, watching the dog's trajectory, adjusting just a little bit to be in just the right place... and caught him. They were both shaken up a little but neither was hurt.
The rest is history.
Isn’t that true
Thanks! I had seen the video via Mark Levin FB post
and was hoping the dogs had been rescued.
Glad to hear they are being cared for.
“This will make you screen all blurry for some reason.”
Dogs understand more than people think. My dog finished eating one morning this week and she ALWAYS gets a big drink after she’s finished. She turned away from her bowl and started to walk away and I said “Mrs. Bean, you didn’t get your drink”, she looked me in the eyes and turned around and started drinking.
thanks for the post
There, but for the grace of God...
One of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes - called The Hunt - involves a man who refuses to enter Heaven unless he can take his dog with him, and it includes the line (spoken in authentic frontier gibberish):
“A dog’s got a right to have a man around, just the same as that man’s got a right to have a dog around, if need he wants to be anyways happy.”
good doggie !
Calls to mind the story of Hachiko.
I love dogs. Most dogs are a lot easier to love than most people.
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