If by "something in your eye" you mean "weeping outright and getting up to hug your own dog" then I am with you.

Dogs are the best people.

Awww... such a great story.

missmez: If by "something in your eye" you mean "weeping outright and getting up to hug your own dog" then I am with you.

My dog is wondering why he got such huge hugs just now.

I'm glad that there are folks that are willing to rescue a dog like that - makes you feel a little better about humanity.

*sniffles* :')

It didn't starve?

/DRTFA

Does not approve.

I like the fact he chewed his own paw off. That's a hardcore dog.

MIRV888: I like the fact he chewed his own paw off. That's a hardcore dog.

She chewed her own paw off.

Yeah my girl just got cuddled to bits. Now she'll rub against me for the next hour wondering why the affection stopped.

As I glanced over to my Dobermann, I realized that she never demonstrates any survival instincts or heroics. It's getting so bad I'm starting to prefer the kids again.

MIRV888: I like the fact he chewed his own paw off. That's a hardcore dog.

And those humans that have removed parts of their arms or legs to survive where just wimps.

Just another animal that found a way to survive in the wild. Shocking!!!

Wow, what an amazing story. Kudos to the conductor for keeping his eye out like that. 2 months it took him to save her!

He called upon a fellow conductor, Theo Bassett..

The right man for the right job....

Frankly that's a lot of BS for just ONE dog. Couldve just 12 gauge it from the train,take the damned thing out of its misery

Ya, dogs are the best people around. I always laugh when some scientist points out how intelligent chimps are for using sticks to catch ants or some other odd stuff and claim the simpletons are manufacturing and using tools. Dogs have shown intelligence time and time again. I'm sure if dogs were equipped with a thumb like humans they'd being running circles around the chimps in tool making.

As soon as he let her out into the backyard, she was bouncing around with VanMoorhem's other dog, eager to play.

Eager to play....strange name for a dog...

missmez: If by "something in your eye" you mean "weeping outright and getting up to hug your own dog" then I am with you.

would be doing so if i was home.

our dog was a rescue. he was found tied to the fence in front of a vet clinic. he's the sweetest, best dog anyone could ever hope for.

Dr. Mojo PhD: MIRV888: I like the fact he chewed his own paw off. That's a hardcore dog.

She chewed her own paw off.

Yeah my girl just got cuddled to bits. Now she'll rub against me for the next hour wondering why the affection stopped.

She's female, she'll get used to those quickies!

LOL

Actually missmez it's rare for a Railroad Dog story to have a happy ending;
Link (new window)

Sorry, she. FAILed myself nicely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PINxfouNQFw

first thing that came to mind.

/not a rickroll

Just another animal that found a way to survive in the wild. Shocking!!!

"The Asshole Guy."

Mmm hm.

I'm just glad he didn't name the dog Lucky. Too many rescue dogs named Lucky. I found my dog at a park. She walked up to the picnic table we were at and then layed down on our laps. She ate our whole picnic and drank all our water. We named her Henrietta and here's a pic of her the next day in her new backyard.

*YaY* I love stories like these...
too often I find myself dealing with the other type...
Both the dog & the rescuers have my admiration ~

/runs off to snuggle her pups...

If I had a dog I would be hugging it now.

psycho_bob42: I'm just glad he didn't name the dog Lucky. Too many rescue dogs named Lucky. I found my dog at a park. She walked up to the picnic table we were at and then layed down on our laps. She ate our whole picnic and drank all our water. We named her Henrietta and here's a pic of her the next day in her new backyard.

Your name belies your tender, gentle heart.



My girl Layla, also a rescued dog. Was a stray from Gatineau (other side of the Ontario-Quebec border) when I got her. She looks like a German Shepherd, but that's just because Shepherd colouring is a dominant gene, she's actually about the size of a Sheltie and built much thinner than a Shepherd.

The poor girl was so emaciated when I got her her ribs showed through her stomach, which you can see in the picture above taken a day after I got her. She's now put on weight (not enough to stop her from being built like a bullet, though).

Been together for going on two years now, and we're inseparable.

Ken Van Moorhem will receive a Compassionate Action Award from PETA.
http://www.peta.org/MC/NewsItem.asp?id=11115

My dog Missy was a rescue. She's either 14 now (rescuer's estimate) or 16 (mine) and somehow still alive, considering she has no teeth from eating wood scraps while she was starving by a freeway/railway crossing.

She's mostly blind and deaf and has spinal arthritis but my sister won't have her put down because her two babies think Missy is their own private live stuffed animal. She leads a pretty cushy life, not being demanded to do anything except lie still & let the babies roll all over her and lick scraps off the floor.

The glands in my throat are swelling for some reason, and I'm a cat guy.

Excuse me.

Ahem.

People suck.

Dogs & Cats rock.

Why can't we be more like them?

I miss my puppy. Well, I suppose it's been 15 years since he's been a puppy, but we still call him that. He's still around, but it's essentially been 8 years since I've become a visitor to my parent's home rather than a resident. He's a black lab mostly, but there's definitely elements of mutt in him (what kind of black lab has brown paws?). When we picked him up from the ASPCA, they told us that he had been found that morning tied to the bumper of the SPCA van when the first worker showed up that morning, along with who they assume was his brother. When we first saw him, he was standing with his front paws on top of his brother's back with his head mashed against the top of the cage he was in, and my Dad decided that he was the one we were going to get. We should have known he would be trouble when he made a break for the door the second he was taken out of the cage.

/Dog got in a lot of trouble over the years
//He's lucky he's so cute
///Mom says he's going senile in his old age

If only people did this more often for other humans. Not saying that dogs are worth less than we are, but a more balanced society produces more balanced individuals, and, therefore, produces more caretakers for animals. How many of us have passed a homeless person without taking them home and changing their lives?

Hogan... nice name for a female dog.

Flight 2074 had roll down windows? Unpossible!

Dr. Mojo PhD
Yeah my girl just got cuddled to bits. Now she'll rub against me for the next hour wondering why the affection stopped.

Please tell me you are talking about a cat or dog and not about your girlfriend.

Suicidal Writer

It's a lot harder to change a person's life. It takes more time, effort, money, and especially risk.

A bad dog can widdle on your carpet or bite you, bad person can ruin your life or worse.

Suicidal Writer: How many of us have passed a homeless person without taking them home and changing their lives?

Dogs are cuddly. Hobos, not so much.

pxlboy

He's adorable!

That was a sweet and touching story, I do think I got dust in my eye...

I adore dogs. We don't have one right now, (we live in a TINY apartment with three cats, there's no room!) but we are planning on getting one next year when we buy a house. He or she will most likely be a rescue, either from the shelter I used to work at, or a private rescue.

Best rescue story time. I found him in a kennel outside the front door of where I worked at the time. He was a little ball of matted filth. He weighted barely 5lbs, skin and bones, dehydrated beyond belief. To top that off the poor little guy had ticks and fleas. (Which told us he wasn't from around here, we don't have fleas.) I got him on a fluids IV and shaved him pretty much bald, be turned out to be a miniature schnauzer. I named him Boyd. He was the sweetest little thing. He ate and ate... It took about 6 weeks before he could be ok to go to a new home. He gained weight like a little champ, and had so much energy... we placed him later with an older widow who will no doubt spoil him rotten.

I miss working in the animal rescue world. It's very rewarding. It's also incredibly horrifying and heartbreaking, which is why I left. There are too many who need a home... Here's the obligatory ADOPT don't BUY! Spay and neuter your critters, and if you won't, keep them away from the opposite sex! I spent too many months killing little puppies and kittens (and not in the fun way) for some asshole to go to the local pet palace and buy some $500 badly-bred health nightmare. (and heaven forbid, decide that "tha kids need ta see CREATION!" and let that poor creature breed.)

/ptsd ftw?

Suicidal Writer: ... How many of us have passed a homeless person without (blah blah blah) and changing their lives?

If by changing their lives you mean masturbating into their hair, then about a dozen. No wait, I forgot Stitch. Thirteen.

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." WILL ROGERS


/Would go even if there isn't a Heaven.

Suicidal Writer Quote 2008-03-15 09:52:45 PM
If only people did this more often for other humans. Not saying that dogs are worth less than we are, but a more balanced society produces more balanced individuals, and, therefore, produces more caretakers for animals. How many of us have passed a homeless person without taking them home and changing their lives?

I think a lot of us do help people too when we are able (and mostly importantly) they are willing..
for example ~ I hire the homeless to help me with shelter stuff when I can... give them three meals & some money for pretty easy work ~ but on the other side of that... I never ever have to worry about the animal I pick up acting maliciously either from anger or for gain... I'm 4'11" and there has been more than one time I've rethought/questioned my decision after picking up a transient and finding myself alone with them...
and then going back to the willing part and not counting the mentally ill/retarded... the homeless hold some personal responsibility for their situation... whereas these animals are true innocent victims...

Wonko Fortytwo: "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." WILL ROGERS

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
-- Mark Twain

Let's see. What would my dogs do?

Emma: Would eat her own paw and be happy about it.
Henry: Would drag the trap around... only later would he realize that he had the option to chew his foot off.
Jack: Would eat his paw and ham it up later for all it's worth.
Alfie: He's probably the one who set the traps so he could have me all to himself, so no paw chewing for him.

/loves her puppies

Animals don't really chew off their legs when trapped. A (bad) trapper will anchor a trap to a stake and the animal will walk around and around trying to free itself and essentially saw its leg off in the trap jaws in the process.

I really wish I didn't know that.

jjorsett:

I really wish I didn't know that now too.

importedbeer: Dr. Mojo PhD
Yeah my girl just got cuddled to bits. Now she'll rub against me for the next hour wondering why the affection stopped.

Please tell me you are talking about a cat or dog and not about your girlfriend.

Haha, yeah. My dog. Though I have had girlfriends rub against me for an hour looking for affection.

jjorsett Quote 2008-03-15 10:22:38 PM
Animals don't really chew off their legs when trapped. A (bad) trapper will anchor a trap to a stake and the animal will walk around and around trying to free itself and essentially saw its leg off in the trap jaws in the process.

I really wish I didn't know that.

I get so upset that people continue to do things like this despite knowing what harm it causes... no amount of money is worth it and so I can only think they get some kind of perverse joy from hurting something else... we just a had mistrial because a jury voted 11-1 not guilty on animal cruelty charges after this guy stabbed his dog... the dog struggled to get up and go back to him so he stabbed him again then also alternated between strangling and suffocating him before it finally died... he did this in front of others and still... 11 people found him not guilty...
sa express news has his name plastered all over and the guy is in the phone book... I hope to open my website with the names of the jurors as well... a couple years ago.. a neighboring city drowned all of their shelter dogs in the sewage plant water... they weren't found guilty either despite breaking numerous state laws... the disrespect for life is overwhelming at times...

jjorsett: A (bad) trapper will anchor a trap to a stake and the animal will walk around and around trying to free itself and essentially saw its leg off in the trap jaws in the process.


What does a (good) trapper do? Stake and a bj?

/she's not a trapper.
//she's a keeper.

My family dog was sometimes a railroad dog. She would walk down the tracks a mile or so with me and my friends to an ice skating pond. She would run around and slide on the ice, and then go sit by the ash-can fire and warm up. I would wait until she attracted a few cute girls and then make my way over. Good doggie.