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VOL.
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World
Trade Center Rescue Dog Shot and Killed
PLAINFIELD, NJ (USA) An unfortunate case of mistaken
identity has resulted in the death of one of New Jersey's finest
rescuers. "Git Ander", a seven-year-old German Shepherd
who searched for survivors in the rubble... [full
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Zombie
Dog V:
What Fools These Morons Be
PIMA, AZ (USA)
Just keep telling yourself: They meant
well. They meant well. Ok, here goes... [full
story] |
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Edinburgh
High Court Hears Death Row Dog's Appeal
ABERDEEN, (Scotland)
This week, an 8-year-old West
Highland Terrier, got a reprieve pending an appeal... [full
story] |
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Dog
Comes Home with Human Arm
MORRIS, MB (Canada)
Proving that a Black Lab will fetch
just about anything, regardless of how gross... [full
story] |
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Missing
5-Yr-Old Boy Kept Alive by Dogs
LISBON (Portugal)
A five-year-old boy lost in the
"extremely inhospitable terrain" of the Portuguese mountains
was reunited with his family, thanks to three dogs... [full
story] |
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GALLERY: The World Trade Center's Heroic Rescue Dogs, Page 3
NEW YORK CITY
Rescue and recovery teams labor on,
hardly scratching the surface but already absorbing the vastness
of what lies in the subterranean heap that was once the Twin
Towers. Now two weeks after the attack... [full
story] |
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Visiting
Hours for Visiting Hounds?
Ambulance-Chasing Dog Follows Master to Hospital
LIVERPOOL (UK)
It's embarrassing when your dog
visits your husband in the hospital an hour before you do... [full
story] |
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Letter
from a World Trade Center Rescuer and his Dog
For the last two
weeks we've brought you a dog's-eye-view of the search-and-rescue efforts at the World Trade
Center. The photographs and testimonials have been stirring
but none so candid and eloquent as the following letter... [full
story] |
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Superdog
Survives Collision with Train
KILDARE, (Ireland)
Animal rescuers
were astounded by the resilience of an unidentified "rich
reddish brown collie cross" who survived an impact with a
train on the... [full story] |
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Dog
Chases Bank Robber Up Tree
CORUNNA, MI (USA)
At 9:50am Friday,
Sep 21, a man entered the Fifth Third Bank at 2350 E. Main St. and
handed the teller a note demanding money. The man had
indicated that he was armed... [full
story] |
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Servus the Dog Rescued from World Trade Center Disaster
NEW YORK CITY
Last week, brave men and women of the NY Fire Department,
the NYPD 13th Precinct, Emergency Medical Teams and the Animal
Medical Center converged to save the life of a downed rescuer:
"Servus" the dog... [full
story] |
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A
Search-and-Rescue Dog Story with a Funny Ending
WELLINGTON (New Zealand)
When lives hang in the balance, it's not often that
search-and-rescue teams get a good chuckle. But everyone
deserves a break from... [full
story] |
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PICTURE
GALLERY:
The Pentagon's Heroic Rescue Dogs
ARLINGTON, VA
In this pictorial, we follow
"Gus" and Ed Apple of the Tennessee Task Force One Search and
Rescue into the torn wreckage of the Pentagon... [full
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PICTURE
GALLERY: The World Trade Center's Heroic Rescue Dogs, Page
2
NEW YORK CITY A week has passed since the September
11 terrorist attacks in New York. But while the soot and
debris may have settled, courageous hearts have not. Canine rescue
teams are... [full story]
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Clumsy
Dog Kiss Cures Woman's Blindness, Doctors Baffled
AUKLAND (New Zealand)
Lisa
Reid had spent the last ten years of her life without
sight... [full story]
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Sneakers
for the Sniffers?
(Thanks, my dogs are killing me!)
NEW YORK CITY (USA)
Ok, who here would like to go digging around in a pile of
jagged rebar and broken glassin your bare feet?... [full
story]
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PICTURE
GALLERY:
The World Trade Center's Heroic Rescue
Dogs,
Page 1
NEW YORK CITY (USA) Not
enough can be said about the heroic individuals, both bipeds and
quadrupeds, who lend their abilities to the security and rescue
efforts underway in the wake of last Tuesday's terrorist attack on
America. With that said, here are a few pictures worth a few
thousand words... [full story]
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Faithful
Dog Leads Blind Man 70 Floors Down WTC Just Before Building Collapses
NEW YORK CITY (USA) Despite the chaos and the crowds of fleeing people,
the four-year-old
Labrador Retriever suppressed any selfish instinct for survival and instead stayed by the
man's side and guided him to... [full
story]
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Dogs
Still Remain Trapped in New York Attack
NEW YORK CITY (USA) In all the rush, did everyone forget
about the dogs?... [full story]
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Daring
Chopper Rescue Pulls Pig Dog from Bluff
RIWAKA VALLEY (New Zealand)
"Tama", a 19-month-old pig
dog had accompanied Vince Gough on a cliff-rappelling expedition last
week at the south branch of Riwaka Valley. When the dog got stuck
on a narrow ledge... [full story]
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Sensational
Snouts!
This Week's Wrap-Up of Noteworthy Noses
CASTRO VALLEY;
ARLINGTON; SAN JOSE (USA) Let us take a minute to
admire the snout and find out how the snout made headlines last
week... [full story]
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Hit-Dogs
Hired to Harass the Riffraff
FLINTSTONE, MD (USA) Besieged by legions of illegal
immigrants, Baltimore County authorities have decided to bring in the
Border Patrol. Border Collie Patrol, that is... [full
story]
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'Beast
of the London Underground' Captured
...Put Away Your Cameras; It's Just
Mandy the Dog
LONDON (UK)
It was a dank and musty air that
occupied the shadowy catacombs of the Underground... [full
story]
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The
Proof is in the Paw:
Sheltie Dog Has the Last Word in Custody Battle
NEWPORT NEWS, VA (USA)
With maybe the exception of King Solomon,
the best authority to rule in any civil dispute has got to be a
dog. Allow me to illustrate... [full
story]
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Dog
Goes Out for a Walk, Comes Back 7 Years Later
VANCOUVER IS., BC
(Canada) A Vancouver Island dog who mysteriously
disappeared years ago reappeared just as mysteriously late last month,
much to the delight and disbelief
of his lost family... [full story]
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Like
Father, Like Dog:
100-lb. Puppy Saves Life-Saver's Life
SENECA FALLS, NY It pays to set a good example for your
dog; you never know when it might save your life... [full
story]
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Zombie
Dog IV: Ungar's
Alive!
ISSAQUAH, WA (USA) No, we don't
have Stephen King on the payroll. This stuff really happens... [full
story]
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