Dog burned trying to rescue master from fire after Queens plane crash

News Radio 88 ^ | 11/15/01

[Ordie 1]

I'm pro life but I think your on the wrong thread, this was about a loyal dog not killing babies, get with the program shepple!!!!!

[ChemistCat]

Just a few links:

Cat heros I

Cat heros II

Cat heros III

And this one will truly make you laugh. Cat hero Saves Mattress From Shake Spill

I just gave my mom, whose beloved old kitty just died of cancer and who is herself facing knee replacement surgery, and my dad, who just got laid off*, a white fluffball of an 8 week old kitten. She is cheering them up enormously at a very bad time in their lives. She is a nonstop purrer and snugglebum of a kitty and I know that watching her play has made this time easier for them both. (I will be paying for the spaying!) She looks rather like this, but with green eyes:

[ChemistCat]

* by the way, if anyone knows of somebody looking to hire the best electronics engineer who ever made the transition from slide rule to Pentium....

[deadhead]

Hope this retriever is ok, a sad story. Yes, a cat will try to rescue her babies, just as a dog would rescue her pups. Cat's are ok, but dog's are the best friend anyone could have :-)

[LibKill]

OK. A cat makes a good smoke alarm.

Now post something where a cat tries to drag it's staffer (cats don't have masters) out of a fire.

I dares ya. :)

[crazykatz]

A cat that we had rescued as a kitten came between my two little boys(they were 6 and 8 1/2 at the time), and a small rattle snake when we lived in Texas...the boys were playing with their little trucks and cars in an area right beside our house....the stones in the area were a perfect hiding place for the snake...it was cool there.

The boys knocked some of the rocks around and out came the snake....rattling like crazy....the cat who was sitting with the boys, SPRUNG INTO ACTION and attacked the snake....the cat, TEXAS T, as he was called...died as a result of bites from the snake.The vet could not save him.

We cried for days for that little tough BRAVE CAT!!

We buried him with prayers and placed a small cross on his grave and the kids always placed flowers there on Sunday after church.

Dogs can be a great gift too...but, some cats are just as brave and loyal. I will always be grateful to God for that little grey tabby cat, TEXAS T!!

[crazykatz]

Please read my post about TEXAS T, the brave grey tabby cat!!

[crazykatz]

bump

[LibKill]

I am corrected.

Tip of the hat to the late Texas T cat.

[ModernDayCato]

Kudos from Bailey the Wonder Dog

[deadhead]

If Bailey was black and white, she would look like my dog Lucy!

[ChemistCat]

Not many cats, which weigh at most, nine or ten pounds, could make much of a stab at carrying even a child out of a building...don't think it's fair to ask nature to program any beast to do what it literally cannot.

Here's a freakish exception, though:


I'm told this is NOT a faked picture--just an all-records breaking cat. The man in the picture is no shrimp himself.

My cats have saved me from many a fearsome cricket. I don't think it's less heroic in intention! :-) But a Golden Retriever, I think, is big enough and strong enough to drag a smallish person to safety, and I know it would make every effort.

My brother-in-law tells of a toddler who somehow climbed a fence and fell in a river. The family dog, a Golden Retriever/black lab mix, made an impossible leap over the same fence and jumped in and grabbed the baby and kept it afloat in a very strong current. The toddler and the dog were found alive a couple of miles downstream. The reason it was so amazing that the dog got over the fence and then kept the baby up is that it was missing one hind leg. I haven't been able to find a link to that story, however.

[blam]

Bump for the doggie. I love mine. All four of them.

[ChemistCat]

I know you must miss that brave kitty every day! I miss my Jeffyr, and he died four years ago (just a few days before I had my third child) after the longest and most cowardly kitty life ever lived. That cat was afraid of everything, but he sure loved me.

[Serb5150]

Funny thing is, I could easily imagine that happening.

[DugwayDuke]

If you can imagine that, you must have a dog. I know it struck me as a good an explanation as any other too. BTW, I've got a 170 pound shadow (female mastiff) that follows me every step I take. She chases my Great Dane away any time he comes close.

[Sungirl]

I never have a bug that goes unnoticed in my house!! They will kill all bugs..anything that gets in the house. Living up north, I had some spiders that would get in the house sometimes...well..my one cat would go crazy until she got it. If it crawled high on the walls....I would lift her up as high as I could..she'd stretch and stretch and swat it down....they go eat it. She ( and my others)always monitor my house for any bugs.

[Sungirl]

I am not looking for an animal to be my slave. I am not looking for this animal to honor and cherish me and do everything i say and expect it to slobber all over me whenever I come in the room. I am not looking for an animal to fetch my slippers or lay over my feet all the time.

MY cats can do what they want. I am not that insecure.

[nancetc]

Sorry on your loss of Bryant.