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Dogs are amazing creatures. Sometimes they gain fame through a stroke of luck and sometimes it’s due to extraordinary courage. You’ll enjoy this amazing dog trivia.
The Basset hound made famous in the Hush Puppies shoe commercials was named Biggles.
Biggles' grandson, Mr. Jeffries, earned fame as the dog with the longest ears in the world. His ears measured 11 and ½ inches each and he often tripped over them.
Tia, a 2 year old Neopolitan Mastiff gave birth to the world's largest litter in 2005. She delivered 24 puppies by caesarean section. Twenty of them survived, setting another record of the most surviving puppies.
The world's tallest dog is a Great Dane from Sacramento named Gibson. He measures 7 feet when standing upright.
Andrew Larkey of Sidney Australia, walked 11 dogs at once on leash for one kilometer.
Twelve veterinary science students from the University of Sydney set a record bathing dogs when they scrubbed 848 dogs in eight hours.
The real hero of the 1925 Serum Run was really Togo. The 12 year old husky led his sled dog team through 260 miles of blowing Alaskan blizzard to deliver emergency diphtheria serum to Nome. Balto received most of the fame because he led the final 55 miles.
The first search and rescue dog on the scene of the World Trade Center disaster on September 11. 2001, was Bear, an 11 year old Golden Retriever. He began recovery efforts immediately, working 18 hour days in the beginning.
Endal, a yellow Lab, helped rehabilitate a Gulf War veteran. He also saved Allen's life, when Allen was struck by a car and knocked from his wheelchair, unconscious. Endal pulled him into the recovery position, covered him with a blanket and grabbed his cell phone. After no response, he walked to a nearby hotel and raised the alarm.
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Aug 14, 2006 1:48 PM
Allen and Endal Parton :
ENDAL AND ALLEN
1 The Japanese television crew watched,
cameras whirling, as Endal, the yellow Labrador leaped up at the cash
machine and, with his mouth, 'handed' the credit card and a wadge of £1O
notes to his master, 42 year old Allen Parton. 'That's amazing,' said
producer Masaki Mochizuki from Super Television, one of Japan's national
television networks. 'What else can he do?'
2 Endal was keen to
show him. Back at Allen's home in Clanfield, Hampshire, he opened the
washing machine with his nose, pulled out several pairs of socks, carefully
dropping them into the laundry basket ready to hang on the line. Then, on
command, he opened a kitchen cupboard, tugging at a purple cord hanging
from the handle, and nosed out a packet of cereal, carrying it in his mouth
to Allen in his wheelchair. Finally, he sat on the chair at the kitchen
table, while Allen had breakfast, ready to 'hand' him anything if he needed
it.
3 Four years earlier, however, when Endal was born, no one
thought that this lonely little puppy was particularly special. If
anything, he was something of a misfit since his parents, who were owned by
a Southampton breeder, were father and daughter. Not realising that the
bitch was still in season, they put her in with her father only to discover
soon afterwards, that she was pregnant. Such pregnancies can fail to
develop or result in sickly or ill-formed pups. Amazingly, Endal, the only
puppy in the litter, seemed perfectly normal. Even so, his owners, Barry
and Sue Edwards did not know what to do with him. Unable to register him
because of his parentage, they considered keeping him as a pet until a
month later when Canine Partners for Independence, visited to inspect
another litter.
4 ' I happened to walk into the room and saw
this very pretty puppy sitting all on his own,' recalls Nina Bondarenko,
programme director for CPI. ' I said, 'Hello little yellow chap, what's the
matter with you?'. Then I asked if I could put him through the aptitude
tests that we set dogs, to see if they would be suitable assistants for
people who need help.'
5 These tests are a series of simple
exercises to measure each dog's interest in people, co-operation, and
flexibility. Nina started by placing Endal on his back to see if he licked
rather than struggled. He did the former, which was a sign that he was
adaptable and calm.. Nina also put Endal in another room, which he didn't
know so well, while she hid. The puppy sat and thought for a while and
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