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Those who commit serial or mass criminal violence often use animals as "rehearsal" tools in their adolescence to work themselves up to the eventual abuse or killing of people.  This link was first established 250 years ago, and it doesn’t seem to be changing.  That means children who torture animals should be dealt with quickly, and it should be taken seriously.  The child may be acting out because he/she is being abused or may be building up to something worse.


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Because women’s shelters do not accept pets, abused members of the family often delay their exit---leaving everyone in the home facing serious physical danger.  Some experts are advocating that animal shelters and veterinary hospitals should work to provide temporary homes for pets when an abused person needs to leave a dangerous situation.


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Ted Bundy, who is thought to have killed over 100 women in years of random murder sprees, enjoyed killing animals as a child.

Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, first learned to enjoy killing by trapping dogs and cats in orange crates and shooting them with arrows.


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Dangerous Man

Neighbors Vince and Steelee Faltis witnessed Charles Black of Oakland, Calif., severely beating his dog Blue (pictured) on a balcony with an axe handle on numerous occasions.  They first tried talking to Black, who has been described as a dangerous man with a criminal record, but, after hearing months of brutal beatings, decided it would be best to capture the crime on video. The neighbors videotaped two attacks and gave them to police on June 30, 2009.  The video apparently shows Black beating his two-year-old pit bull, so severely that the dog screams in pain.  According to Vince Faltis, after the beatings the dog would just shiver. Faltis was awarded $2,500 by the Humane Society for videotaping the attack, $1000 of which he donated to the Oakland animal shelter.  Black was found guilty of two felony counts of animal abuse and sentenced to four years in prison.  The dog, now named Blueberry for the blue welts he received at Black's hands, is doing well.


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Maayo gani kay ang tawo dili kan-on, naay mameligro...

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Di na pud tingali ganahan ang cannibal kon hunit na...

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this is real cruelty to the max, bai hubs.  back in the early 2000s, there was an internet campaign against this practice of making bonsais out of cats, said to have started in japan.  these were sold as tourist items and the buyers were said to be australians. 

obviously, kittens who grow up as cats inside bottles turn out misshapen and their bones undeveloped.  my signature against this practice may not have meant much, but at least i added one more voice in that campaign, and a niece of mine saw to it that i added my own voice, no matter how feeble and unknown, against this form of cruelty.  kittens are not plants, kailangan pa bang i-memorize iyan?     

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New York City's most notorious serial killer, David Berkowitz, called Son of Sam, was known by neighbors for killing local pets.

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Pedophile and child murderer Jesse Timmendequas endured years of childhood abuse, during which family pets were tortured in front of him.  Later, his crimes against children inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that neighbors be notified of the presence of sex criminals.

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Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, first learned to enjoy killing by trapping dogs and cats in orange crates and shooting them with arrows.

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I just found out recently that the composer Brahms, whom I used to know as a serial cat killer, has actually been cleared of the purported crime:



Brahms cleared of serial cat slaying


Author's research reveals calumny that for 100 years defamed German composer was the malicious gossip of 'notoriously bitchy' Wagner

by David Ward
The Guardian, Thursday 12 April 2001 18.00 BST  


Johannes Brahms, bewhiskered composer of four symphonies, has been cleared of one of the most serious charges ever levelled at a musical genius - the accusation that he was a serial cat slayer.

For more than a century, cat lovers have accepted as true the allegation that Brahms slaughtered felines, transcribed the sounds of their dying moments and callously incorporated them in to his works.

But research proves that the foul calumny was almost certainly the work of Richard Wagner, a notoriously bitchy composer whose operas go on longer than one of the nine lives of an average mog.

Writing in the May issue of the BBC Music Magazine, Calum MacDonald, who is the author of a study of Brahms, dismisses the charge on empirical grounds. "In my own limited but miserable experience, dying cats don't tend to make much noise," he says.

In his review of the evidence, he notes that stories of Brahms killing cats surface mainly in books about cats rather than in books about music "which is suspicious in itself".

He finds one of the most recent accounts in Desmond Morris's Cat World, published in 1996, which claims that Brahms began cat bagging after the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak gave him a "Bohemian sparrow slaying bow".

Brahms used to take aim from his apartment window in Vienna, alleges Morris, who then quotes Wagner: "After spearing the poor brutes, he reeled them in to his room after the manner of a trout-fisher. Then he eagerly listened to the expiring groans of his victims and carefully jotted down in his notebook their ante mortem remarks."

Morris adds: "According to Wagner, who disliked Brahms, he worked these sounds into his chamber music."

MacDonald dismisses every detail of this account as suspect and reports that Morris cannot now find the source for Wagner's comments. He also explains that Wagner never visited Brahms's flat, so at best could only have been retailing gossip. Dvorak and Brahms met in 1880, only three years before Wagner died, leaving a very limited time for Brahms to become an expert with the Bohemian bow and for Wagner to get wind of the story, had it been true.

MacDonald adds: "Dvorak would presumably have to have given Brahms the bow in person but their collected correspondence contains no letter saying, 'Please, Honoured Master, accept this amusing artefact from my native land'."

He then asks: "Is there really such a thing as a 'Bohemian sparrow slaying bow'?

"Brahms's 'apartment' is presumably his flat in the Karlgasse, which was several floors up, so he'd need a long line to haul up any speared moggies. Did sparrow slaying bows have lines attached? It surely wouldn't be strong enough to haul in dying cats, especially if they were struggling."

After consulting Styra Avins, editor of Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters, MacDonald learned that in 1893 - when Brahms was still alive - a music critic for the New York Times, James Huneker, had cited the story of the composer's hatred of cats as an example of how biography could be contaminated by deliberate fiction. Huneker named Wagner as the guilty man.

"Brahms's supposed sadism is a malicious fabrication," MacDonald concludes. Which means the rest of us can listen to the clarinet quintet without fearing that some of its finest moments were inspired by a cat yowling its way to oblivion.





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how reassuring about brahms.

hinoon, kamaayong ipakong aning duha.  why must some genius be sometimes accompanied by bitchiness or cattiness?  glad though that they left behind immortal works to be enjoyed and appreciated by humanity far beyond their personas.  gladder still that they didn't address each other as KA, as in ka botoy and ka bugsay.   

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Massacre horrifies B.C.: Man shoots 100 sled dogs ‘execution-style’ after Olympic slowdown
 
Editor’s Warning: Story contains graphic material that may offend some readers.
 
By Sam Cooper and Sean Sullivan, The Province

WHISTLER — A man who shot 100 sled dogs complained to WorkSafeBC B.C. that he suffered post traumatic stress after the slaughter and was granted compensation.

The news has horrified dog lovers and led to a joint criminal investigation by the RCMP and B.C. SPCA.

“Shocking doesn’t begin to describe what happened to these poor dogs,” said an emotional Marcie Moriarty, B.C. SPCA’s manager of animal-cruelty investigations on Monday.

“I don’t want to use the term euthanize because the man describes it as execution-style killings.”

A WorkSafe B.C. report dealing with the compensation, details the gruesome scenes on April 21 and 23, 2010, when the worker euthanized 100 dogs over two days. The size of the cull meant he had to kill the dogs in full view of the rest of the pack, leading to a bloody frenzy of wounded, frightened and angry dogs.

The dogs were buried in a mass grave.

One dog, Nora, was found crawling around in the mass grave 20 minutes after he had dumped her body into the pit. Others were chased, shot cleanly or died after their throats were slit. The employee, according to the report, was “covered in blood” when finished.

According to the report, on April 21, the man wounded one dog — Suzy, the mother of his family’s pet dog — who managed to run away despite having the left side of its cheek blown off and an eye hanging from its socket. A rifle with a scope was used to kill her from a distance; that bullet passed through her and seriously wounded Poker, a dog that wasn’t slated to be euthanized. It was later killed.

On April 23, one dog, who had part of its head blown off, attacked him after he ran out of ammunition. He killed the dog with a knife, slitting its throat while it was on top of him.

The report said the man, who had named and raised many of the dogs, has “continued to deteriorate mentally and emotionally” since the incident.

While not named in the WorkSafe B.C. documents, the man has been identified as Robert T. Fawcett, listed in corporate papers as a director of Howling Dog Tours Whistler Ltd.

In a Dec. 27, 2010, posting on a website forum for trauma sufferers, a Whistler resident named Bob Fawcett, an award-winning dogsledder, wrote: “I’ve had a pretty horrible ordeal and actually figure I may be able to be a good sounding board for others ... and it has pretty much destroyed my soul.”

Outdoor Adventures at Whistler said in a release that it has had a “financial interest” in Howling Dogs Tour Whistler Inc., which has “operational control of the dogsledding operations,” for four years.

In the statement issued Monday, Outdoor Adventures said: “OAW was aware of the relocation and euthanization of dogs at Howling Dogs in April 2010, but it was our expectation that it was done in a proper, legal and humane manner.”

Outdoor Adventures is owned by Joey Houssian, son of Intrawest founder Joe Houssian.

Records obtained by The Province indicate Houssian has been an owner of Howling Dogs Tour Whistler since Dec. 27, 2006. He is presently the sole owner of the company.

Houssian did not respond to phone calls Monday.

According to its brochures, Outdoor Adventures offers a three-hour dogsled tour in the Soo Valley for $169 per person.

Moriarty said a criminal investigation would focus on the man who killed the dogs, but the corporate management would be investigated as well.

There are provisions in the SPCA act that allow for Criminal Code charges and Moriarty says this case warrants them.

“Dogs crawling around in a mass grave; half of one’s face blown off — if those actions don’t constitute Criminal Code offences, I don’t know what does.”

Moriarty acknowledged it has historically been difficult to persuade Crown prosecutors to accept criminal charges for animal cruelty.

Moriarty said the man has claimed it was not his decision to kill the dogs, but that’s no excuse and he’s culpable.

Other dogsled tour operators in Whistler distanced themselves from the reported actions.

In the Callaghan Valley, Craig Beattie, general manager of Canadian Snowmobile & All Terrain Adventures, was asked if that operation has ever performed mass euthanizations, such as the case alleged with Outdoor Adventures.

“Absolutely not,” he said. “I’ve not heard of anything like this in my life. It’s shocking.”

Shawn Wilson, president of dogsled tour company Blackcomb Adventures, said Outdoor Adventures wanted to be “the biggest company in town.” His own company uses another dogsled contractor, one of three in the Whistler area.

“It was all business, just trying to pump out the numbers,” Wilson said. “They wanted to have 12 teams running at once.”

“When you have 300 dogs, it’s different. The owners aren’t with them every day.”

Whistler lawyer Corey Steinberg — who is representing the man who filed the WCB claim — abruptly cancelled a press conference he had scheduled Monday afternoon.

Terry Cumming of Melfort, Sask., advocates against sled-dog operators through his website, Sled Dog Watchdog. He wasn’t surprised to hear of the allegations.

“It’s pretty common for [sled-dog operators] to kill dogs and not tell anyone,” Cumming said. “If the dogs are not capable of earning their keep, they’re of no value to either the dog-tour operators or the dog mushers.”



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sorry, i meant no disrespect to you two handsome and adorable monkeys, ka hubag and ka bugsay.  with your smiles, you certainly don't look like victims of human cruelty, that's for sure.

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Kon mag alima ka ug iro unya tera-tera lang ang imong ipakaon, is it cruelty to animals.?

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Akong bitawng silingan nga kaduwa sauna, ang iyang lingaw magpabuto og firecrackers nga iyang isuksok sa lubot sa baki. Nakadungog na lang ko much later nga nahimo siyang rapist...

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not at all.  igo-igoa lang ang tera-tera nga di parehag tungaw kadak-a.  and please, no bones, especially fish and chicken bones.  better still, zero bones.

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Why would someone be cruel to their pet?

All too frequently we read of sickening cases of cruelty to pets in local and national newspapers.  Why is it, we ask, that some 'human' creatures inflict suffering upon other creatures that are usually smaller and defenseless?  Why do they take pets into their homes only to treat them with less than respect and with a great deal of contempt?

Often the reason these animal abusers obtain a pet is the same reason that they end up treating the animal cruelly.  And that reason is control.

They may not consciously think "I need something to control so I will get myself a pet", but the fact remains that rarely do these people keep a pet just for companionship and something to love, but to have a living thing under their control.

People that deliberately hurt animals do so because it gives them a feeling of power.  Perhaps these 'people' feel undervalued within their family, or within society.  Perhaps they have an inflated sense of how much they should be valued.  Hence, these sick beings take out their frustrations on helpless pets.

Often sadistic acts of animal abuse are one step away from abusing humans.


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The sensational high profile examples, such as serial killers, are but the tip of the iceberg, in many, many cases of spouse battering, child abuse, etc. pet cruelty is also a factor in the home.  It's a sad fact that all too often we read reports in the news papers of someone found guilty of cruelty to their pet which is a sick terrible thing in itself, but often that is only half the story.

In an extensive survey of abused wives who kept pets, over half revealed that their abusing partners had harmed, and in some cases killed, their pets.  The fear that the abuser would greatly harm the pet for revenge if she left, kept many of those wives from leaving.

Back in 1837 when Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist he created the character Bill Sykes, who was a violent bully that badly abused his dog Bullseye.  True to form, the bullying thug was also violent with people, particularly his lady friend Nancy.

Before the end of the novel Sykes attempts to take the life of the child Oliver, and succeeds in killing Nancy.  Dickens knew that those that are cruel to pets are dangerous sick people.


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Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins
Olivia Lang in Bariyapur
www.guardian.co.uk
Tuesday 24 November 2009 13.11 GMT


The world's biggest animal sacrifice began in Nepal today with the killing of the first of more than 250,000 animals as part of a Hindu festival in the village of Bariyapur, near the border with India.

The event, which happens every five years, began with the decapitation of thousands of buffalo, killed in honour of Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power.

With up to a million worshippers on the roads near the festival grounds, this year's fair seems more popular than ever, despite vocal protests from animals rights groups who have called for it to be banned. "It is the traditional way, " explained 45-year old Manoj Shah, a Nepali driver who has been attending the event since he was six, "If we want anything, and we come here with an offering to the goddess, within five years all our dreams will be fulfilled." .

Crowds thronged the roads and camped out in the open, wrapped in blankets against the cool mist. The festivities included a ferris wheel, fortune-telling robots and stalls broadcasting music and offering tea and sugary snacks.

As dawn broke, the fair officially opened with the sacrifice of two rats, two pigeons, a pig, a lamb and a rooster in the main temple, to cheers of "Long live Gadhimai" from spectators pushing against each other for a better view.

In the main event, 250 appointed residents with traditional kukri knives began their task of decapitating more than 10,000 buffalo in a dusty enclosure guarded by high walls and armed police.

Frightened calves galloped around in vain as the men, wearing red bandanas and armbands, pursued them and chopped off their heads. Banned from entering the animal pen, hundreds of visitors scrambled up the three-metre walls to catch a glimpse of the carnage.

The dead beasts will be sold to companies who will profit from the sale of the meat, bones and hide. Organisers will funnel the proceeds into development of the area, including the temple upkeep.

On the eve of the event, protesters made a final plea to organisers by cracking open coconuts in a nearby temple as a symbolic sacrifice. "It is cruel and inhumane. We've always been a superstitious country, but I don't think sacrifice has to be part of the Hindu religion," said the protest organiser, Pramada Shah.

The campaign has the support of the French actor Brigitte Bardot, who has petitioned the Nepalese prime minister, Madhav Kumar Nepal, about the issue. But the government, which donated £36,500 to the event, has shown no sign of discontinuing the centuries-old tradition. An attempt by the previous government to cut the budget for animal sacrifice provoked street protests.

Chandan Dev Chaudhary, a Hindu priest, said he was pleased with the festival's high turnout and insisted tradition had to be kept. "The goddess needs blood," he said. "Then that person can make his wishes come true."

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In theory and practice

There are many reasons why individuals abuse animals.  Animal cruelty covers a wide range of actions (or lack of action).  Learning about animal abuse has revealed patterns of behavior employed by abusers.

Animal cruelty is often broken down into two main categories: active and passive, also referred to as commission and omission, respectively.

Passive cruelty is typified by cases of neglect, in which the cruelty is a lack of action rather than the action itself.  Examples of neglect are starvation, dehydration, parasite infestations, allowing a collar to grow into an animal’s skin, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and failure to seek veterinary care when necessary.


Chest X-ray of a shot cat. White spots are lead shot.


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Ako gi bookmark ni kay di nako mahuman ug basa. Thanks for all these Miss Isles! (Vow....)

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Burag cruelty to animals pud ni, kay giprito pero buhi pa inigkaon...




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Naa bitaw video ani. Hmm, basin mao ni paborito nga sumsoman ni Bay Bugsay...

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Binuangong Bugsaya. Unsa guy pinabilangkad...

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Hmm, pero unsang animala?  

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kasuway sad ka panguhag gamba? hahaha

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Cruelty to cat...





 

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He he, ngano kahang nagpanilap man ning bataa...

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gi check up ranang frog..kay sakit likod,,,saon man ko mopatay tag snake nya paakon man ta ana,cruelty pa gihapon na,,,

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maayo gani kay statue ra ni.  kun tinuod pa, daghan na untag kinamrasan ang bata.  way sala ang iring.  sala sa ginikanan nga wa matudloi ang bata...

note to parents:  tell your children not to touch much less hurt your cats when their ears are pointed backward.  it means that they are on "crazies".  this happens about three times a day, when something in cats harks back to the beginning of time, with their hunting instincts.  they're not sweet and affectionate during these times. 

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my pleasure... 

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Animal Abuse Potential

Is there any evidence of a connection between animal cruelty and human violence?

Absolutely.  Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during the last 35+ years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have childhood and adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty.  The FBI has recognized the connection since the 1970s, when bureau analysis of the life histories of imprisoned serial killers suggested that most, as children, had killed or tortured animals.  Other research has shown consistent patterns of animal cruelty among perpetrators of more common forms of violence, including child abuse, spouse abuse, and elder abuse.

Is Animal Abuse Recognized as a Sign of Mental Disorder?

Yes.  In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the American Psychiatric Association lists animal cruelty as one of the behaviors signaling conduct disorder.  Clinical evidence indicates that animal cruelty is one of the symptoms usually seen at the earliest stages of conduct disorder, often by the age of eight.  This information has only recently been included in the DSM, so some psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers are just now becoming aware of it.

Why Is It Improtant to Stop Animal Abusers When They are Young?

A 1994 report release by the National Research Council states that early intervention is more likely to reduce adult crime than criminal sanctions applied later in life.  The report further states that childhood behavior is more important than teenage behavior in predicting future violence.


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congratulations!  swerte kuno ning balay nga naay iring... ambot ba uroy.  basta ako, i love cats and other animals just for being what they are.  i hope you do, too.   

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Spray Painting the Pooch

On May 3, 2007, police were called to a home by a concerned pet owner whose Samoan shepherd, Wiley, had been tagged with what the owner described in the police report as "gang graffiti."  In fact, "Go Home" had been spray painted in red on the dog (pictured).  It turned out, however, that Wiley liked to roam the neighborhood unleashed and had most likely been spray painted by an irate neighbor. The deputy advised the owner to keep Wiley in her own yard and leashed when she walked him around to avoid similar acts of vandalism in the future.


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akong lolo perting hiliga sa ering jod,,akoa hilig ang dog,,hatagan unta kos akong migo sa cebu labrador kay daghan sa ilaha kaso,,mahal man diay pakaon og bakuna,,hu,,hu,hu,hu,,

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kasabot ko, chris.  i share your pain.  sige, pahiri na nang imong luha.  kun magasto na ang kuwarta, kalimtan na lang nato aron di na mohapdos. 

my trick is to scrimp on other things.  di ko moadto ug beauty spa, pamakwi sa gasto sa akong mga gialimahan (4 ka iro, wa pay labot sa di among iro nga pakan-on ug apil; 26 nga iring, and counting).  self-help lang ko sa mga pa-beauty unya si banana republic ray moputol sa akong buhok. 

morag mas importante pa man god ning pagkaon sa hayop kay sa pintal sa kuko, di ba?  in this regard, hinaot unta nga di nimo sabton nga nagpasabot ko nga di na unta ka mamintal sa imong kuko.  far from it.

regards to your labrador.  unsay iyang full name?

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kasabot na ko nganong baye nga tawo imong gipangasawa imbis labrador.

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Kon mosapot ang labrador..labhak pod ang labas..dabadabado..

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Bwahaha! Unya kon nanimahong ginamos, "LAB -> hi -> RA nang imong -> DOR"...

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 BWA-haha!

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Canine of the Year: Military Dog Reportedly Assisted in bin Laden Raid

By: Jenny Wilson



Two soldiers and dogs of the 26th airborne brigade of the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) rappel down from a helicopter
Getty Images / TORSTEN SILZ

Accompanying the Navy Seals who completed the bin Laden mission was a faithful four-legged fighter.  The trained military dog, either a German Shepherd or a Belgian Malinois, was attached to a human Seal and lowered from a helicopter into the compound. Wearing canine armor, he went along to sniff out hidden explosives or, if necessary, find a secret room of bin Laden's.


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prost!  zum wohl!  op uw gezondheid!  a vorte sante!  all ye, dogs of the world!

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10. Magic the Miniature Mare

By Katy Steinmetz
Monday, Mar. 21, 2011



Sometimes heroism can come in the quieter, more unassuming guise of a miniature therapy horse (such as the one seen above).  Magic, a blue-eyed mare, regularly visited patients who needed comfort, whether in group homes, hospitals or hospice-care facilities, but one particular interaction gained her recognition as AARP's Most Heroic Pet in 2010.  Magic went to visit a patient who had lived in an assisted-living facility and hadn't spoken to anyone during her three years there.  But the moment she laid eyes on Magic, she said, "Isn't she beautiful?"  Those first words caused the staff to break out in tears, and she continued to communicate from that point onward.  The Florida program that brought the two together, Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses, continues to work its magic in the Sunshine State.


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8. Moko the Dolphin
 
By Kayla Webley
Monday, Mar. 21, 2011



In the summer of 2008, Moko the bottlenose dolphin was a constant fixture at a beach along the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, coming by every few days to play with swimmers.  But one day her visit was more business than pleasure when she showed up just in time to save two beached pygmy sperm whales.  Successfully doing what humans could not, Moko seemed to communicate with the two whales and lead them safely back into deeper water.  Had the dolphin not shown up, rescuers said, the mother whale and calf likely would have been killed as they had resisted human attempts to herd them to sea.  "I don't speak whale and I don't speak dolphin," Conservation Officer Malcolm Smith told the BBC in 2008, "but there was obviously something that went on because the two whales changed their attitude from being quite distressed to following the dolphin quite willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea."


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6. Trakr the Dog

By Frances Romero
Monday, Mar. 21, 2011



 Trained as a police dog in Halifax, Nova Scotia — where he worked for six years, helping to find more than $1 million in contraband — Trakr had retired in May 2001 before he and his trainer, Canadian police officer James Symington, drove 15 hours to help recovery efforts in New York City following the Sept. 11 attacks.  Trakr was credited with locating the last survivor found beneath the rubble.  Two days after arriving and searching for survivors the entire time, Trakr collapsed from smoke inhalation, exhaustion and burns and was treated for his injuries before returning to Canada.  Later in life Trakr suffered from a degenerative neurological disorder that experts say could have been caused by his work at Ground Zero.  Before Trakr died in April 2009, his DNA was entered into a cloning contest by Symington and was later chosen for use.  In June of that year, five cloned Trakrs were born.


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4. Cher Ami the Pigeon

By Kayla Webley
Monday, Mar. 21, 2011



Pigeons aren't often thought of as the smartest of our feathered friends, but the incessantly cooing, bread-crumb-eating birds have their uses.  During World War I and World War II, the U.S. military enlisted more than 200,000 pigeons to conduct surveillance and relay messages.  One such pigeon, Cher Ami ("Dear Friend" in French), flew for the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during WWI.  He flew 12 important messages before being struck by enemy fire.  Despite being shot in the breast and leg, he managed to deliver the message, which was found dangling from his shattered leg.  His brave dedication to the mission led to the rescue of 194 soldiers in Major Charles Whittlesey's "Lost Battalion."  Cher Ami, who died in 1919, likely as a result of his battle wounds, was awarded the French Croix de Guerre award for his heroic service and was inducted into the Racing Pigeon Hall of Fame.  His one-legged body is on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's "Price of Freedom: Americans at War" exhibit in Washington, D.C.


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2. Bucephalus the Horse

By Katy Steinmetz
Monday, Mar. 21, 2011



Bucephalus was the famed steed of Alexander the Great.  As legend has it, Alexander broke the wild horse when no one else dared go near — not by force but by turning the horse's head toward the sun, understanding that Bucephalus was simply afraid of his own shadow.  No one but Alexander could mount the horse after. As one history puts it, "Long did this noble animal share the toils and dangers of his master; and this was the horse that Alexander delighted to honor."  So excellent was Buchephalus in battle that when he was once lost, Alexander is said to have threatened the destruction of an entire country unless he was returned (which he was).


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Cruelty to cat...





 :'(

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