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Christmas Miracle: Dog Found in Metro Detroit 3 Years After Going Missing in Ohio

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A dog who was missing for three years has been reunited with his family just in time for Christmas after being found almost 200 miles away from home.

Earlier this month, Donna Wreford found a small Yorkshire Terrier wandering around her Romulus home. After asking around the neighborhood, Wreford took the dog to the Romulus Animal Shelter.

Workers at the shelter used an electronic wand to scan the dog and determined he had a microchip implant that had owner information on file with the American Kennel Club. Workers contacted the AKC, who confirmed that the dog was reported missing by a family located in Columbus, Ohio more than three years ago.

The AKC contacted the owners, Ta-Shina and Darrin Green — who were still currently living in Columbus — and advised them to contact the Romulus Animal Shelter for some good news regarding their lost dog.

The Green family immediately contacted the shelter and finally heard the news they had been waiting so long for — that after three years of being missing, their long-lost dog “Rexxn” was found in Romulus, around 200 miles north of his home. (Read more from “Christmas Miracle: Dog Found in Metro Detroit 3 Years After Going Missing in Ohio” HERE)

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Video: Dog Pushes Owner in Wheelchair Through Flooded Russian Street

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Photo Credit: YouTube

Photo Credit: YouTube

Earlier this month, central Europe faced some of the worst flooding in a decade. Several western Russian cities were hit hard, too.

In a clip posted on YouTube this past week, one resident of a Russian community uploaded a video of the severe flooding in his community.

As he was taping, his camera caught a disabled man, in his wheelchair, being pushed through the flood waters by his dog.

The amazing footage is shown below:

Man Bites Dog, Saves Wife (+video)

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Photo Credit: inquisitrSometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Or, at least bite with bite. A man in Grimes, Iowa, saved his wife from a dog attack by using some animal tactics of his own. Laine Henry bit the dog on the nose to step the animal from attacking his wife Caren.

According to KDVR, Caren and Laine were walking their pet beagle on Sunday afternoon last week when another dog, a Labrador retriever mix, got out of its yard and attacked them. The lab, named Buddy, attacked Caren. The dog bit her right thigh, stomach, and face. According to the Des Moines Register, the dog bit Carren’s nose and “ripped it off.”

The woman suffered serious injuries in the attack but it would have been worse if her husband Laine wasn’t around. The man was able to fight the dog and eventually got it to stop attacking by biting the dog on the nose.
Read more at https://www.inquisitr.com/647680/man-bites-dog-saves-wife/#UTadvehJrcgCUeX4.99

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Dogs and Cats Still on the Menu in Switzerland

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Eating Fido – or Tiddles – might be more commonly associated with China and Vietnam, but rustling up a slice of cured dog meat to enjoy as a snack is not unusual in rural areas of central and eastern Switzerland, Tages Anzeiger claims.

There are no statistics on the number of dogs and cats killed every year in Switzerland and social disapproval of dog-eating means the practice is shrouded in secrecy. No commercial abattoirs slaughter dogs or cats, but farmers in the Appenzell and St Gallen cantons in German-speaking Switzerland often slaughter the animals themselves.

The most popular breed of dog for eating is a close relative of the Rottweiler.

“There’s nothing odd about it”, one farmer in the Rhine Valley said. “Meat is meat.”

Another farmer, from Appenzell, tells of how he knocks dogs out with a club before slaughtering them and handing them to a butcher friend for preparation. A perplexed dog and cat-eater protested to the reporter that the practice never used to be frowned upon.

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Blind Fairbanks Dog Reunited With Owners After Weeks in Arctic Cold

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When their blind eight-year-old dog went missing from their remote Alaskan home in a heavy snowstorm, the Grapengeter family felt sure they’d never see her again. But after more than a week of searching in temperatures as low as minus 40C, Abby, a brown-and-white mixed-breed whom the Grapengeters rescued from an animal shelter as a puppy, turned up safe and sound at the home of a local vet.

Abby first disappeared from the family’s five-acre property near Fairbanks on 13 December. Given she’d gone blind a year ago, McKenzie Grapengeter and her three children held out little hope for her return. But on 23 December they received a call saying Abby had been found more than 10 miles away – and without even a trace of frostbite.

Neighbours had planned to set live traps to find her, but in the end the dog found her own way along a winter trail to the house of Mark May, a local dog musher and vet.

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Golden Retrievers Used in Newton to Comfort Massacre Survivors

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A team of golden retrievers made an 800-mile journey from the Chicago area to Newtown, Conn., over the weekend to comfort people affected by the shootings Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Lutheran Church Charities sent about 10 of the dogs for residents who want to pet them while they talk or pray with the dog’s handler, said Tim Hetzner, president of the Addison, Ill., organization.

“Dogs are nonjudgmental. They are loving. They are accepting of anyone,” Hetzner said. “It creates the atmosphere for people to share.”

The dogs often visit people in hospitals, nursing homes and parks. Each dog carries a business card with its name, Facebook page, Twitter account and email address.

“The dogs have become the bridge,” said Lynn Buhrke, 66, who is a dog handler for a female golden retriever named Chewie. “People just sit down and talk to you.”

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Fascinating Video of Husky Imitating Human Baby

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As most of you probably know, Joe and I are dog lovers. We currently have four dogs, three mastiffs and a bulldog.

Although our children have grown up around dogs and have seen plenty of entertaining scenes – including one last night when our four month-old mastiff got the better of his dad in a game of tug-of-war – we’ve never seen anything quite like the video below.

I had to watch this several times. In this extraordinary video, a beautiful husky dog imitates his owner’s baby’s sounds.

It’s obvious that the baby was enjoying the duet as much as the dog.

And if you haven’t already seen it, you should take the time to watch the video of a Great Dane, enjoying his master’s pool.