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DOG HEROES by Janet Spencer Come along with Tidbits as we remember remarkable dog heroes!
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• Irene Hughes of Melbourne, Australia raised collies for a living. She reported to the police that two of her prize-winning dogs had apparently been stolen, as they had disappeared without a trace. Police had no leads. Two weeks later, she saw a third collie heading away from the house, carrying a piece of meat in its mouth. She followed it and was amazed to see him drop the meat down an abandoned mine shaft. Peering to the bottom of a shaft 15 feet deep, she found her two lost dogs, who had been kept alive by their buddy. • Michael Miller was out walking his English setter, Sadie, in Bethpage, Tennessee one day when he suddenly collapsed on the ground with a massive heart attack. He was unconscious, but his hand was still wrapped around Sadie’s leash. Sadie tried to revive him by licking his face. When that failed, the 45-pound dog began pulling her 180-pound master towards home. For an hour and a half the dog labored to pull his body forward, a third of a mile away. Finally reaching the back door, the dog howled until Miller’s wife came out. Michael Miller recovered at a nearby hospital thanks to the heroic action of his dog. • Mary Lou Wells was washing dishes at her Kingston, Tennessee farm while her threeyear-old daughter Keira played outside in the yard. Suddenly the family’s three collies
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started barking urgently. Wells looked outside and found that Keira was no longer in the yard. Investigating, she saw her daughter halfway up a hill. Then to her horror she also saw that the four horses normally locked in the paddock were headed at a dead run through the gate which had somehow gotten open. Keira was standing directly in their path. Wells ran outdoors screaming “Whoa!” at the top of her lungs but she knew she would be too late to save her daughter. The lead horse reached the child, kicking her as he passed over with three more horses hot on his heels. Then the three collies leapt into action. Running to Keira’s side, each dog picked a horse and ran at it, snarling and snapping, heading it off and herding it away from the child. Two of the collies then kept the horses at bay while the third returned to the crying child to lick her tears away. Keira made a complete recovery. • In 1991, 75-year-old Jack Fyfe of Sydney, Australia, was home alone when he suffered a paralyzing stroke which left him unable to move. He lay helpless, waiting for someone to discover him. Day after day he waited in agony until he was in danger of death by dehydration as the temperature outside climbed to 90 degrees (32 C). Fyfe’s dog, a six-year-old mixed breed named Trixie, understood when Fyfe cried out for water. In a brilliant move, she grabbed a towel, soaked it in her own water dish, then laid it across her master’s face so he could suck the moisture from it. She repeated this maneuver every day until her water dish ran dry. Then she took the towel to the toilet. After nine days of helplessness, the man’s daughter stopped by and found him still alive - thanks to his dog Trixie. • It was windy on the day when ten-year-old Penny Grantz of Niles, Ohio, went into the family’s backyard to amuse herself while her father John, a night-worker, slept inside the house. The family dog, a collie named Duke, accompanied her. But when Penny decided to light a fire, burning papers and flying ashes suddenly ignited her flammable skirt. In flames, the horrified girl ran screaming towards the house. Duke, however, intercepted her. Seizing the burning garment in his teeth, he tore it from her body, throwing her to the ground. He barked in alarm, waking John, who rushed Penny to the hospital, where she remained for nine weeks. Duke was treated for burns to his mouth but recovered. • Holden, Washington, was a mining town in 1926 and plenty of ore trains went through town every day. Mrs. Moore lived on the edge of town near a blind curve that hid oncoming trains from view. One afternoon her two-year-old son Richard played in the yard as she hung her laundry. The family dog, a lanky English pointer named Bill, looked on. Hearing a train approaching, Mrs. Moore looked around for her son but couldn’t find him. She continued to search as the train came closer. Suddenly to her horror, she spied him sitting calmly between the rails of the tracks. She began running and screaming but the train was bearing down on the child and she knew she could never reach him in time. The engineer spied the boy and yanked the whistle hoping to frighten the child into moving. He stood up and began to cry, but did not move from the tracks. Then a brown and white streak blazed by Mrs. Moore. It was Bill. Running full tilt, the dog reached the boy scant seconds ahead of the locomotive and delivered a body block that knocked the child off the tracks and into the ditch beyond. As the train rumbled by, Bill sat firmly upon the boy’s back, refusing to let him move until the train had passed and the frantic mother reached them. • When Kendall Plank awoke in the night to the sound of all the neighborhood dogs barking, she knew something was amiss. When she heard someone outside her bedroom window, followed by someone jiggling the locked front doorknob, she dialed 911. She was still on the phone when she heard the bathroom window shatter. Then a man with a machine gun came around the corner, shooting her first in the arm and then in the back. At this point, Kendall’s springer spaniel Brandy went nuts, leaping at the intruder and chasing him throughout the house, ignoring the spray of bullets. The 30-lb. dog was hit five times, but she kept chasing, barking, and nipping until the desperate man jumped out the same bathroom window he’d come in, where police shot him. Kendall Plank recovered from her wounds and so did Brandy. For the
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* If you haven’t already, plant your spring flowering bulbs now before the first frosts! * “I replaced my beat-up tension rod in the bath, and immediately had a thought to use it for hanging clothes in my narrow laundry room. It gives me a space to hang items coming out of the washer for air drying. When it’s not in use, it’s easy to remove and lean against the wall.” -- N.L. in Pennsylvania * Get control of your money with a financial calendar. Just as you would pencil in dates for doctor’s appointments and teeth cleaning, add reminders for pulling a credit report, adjusting your withholding, increasing your retirement contribution or reassessing your personal savings. Re-shop for insurance providers yearly to get the best deals. * To maintain a 1 pound per week weight loss, you’ll need to burn or forgo 3,500 calories per week. If you’re not already a hard-core athlete, consider addressing poor nutrition coupled with moderate but regular workouts to make gains! * If you’re on a home-renovation budget, don’t forget to consider the considerable power of paint. Look for pieces that can be customized to your look with a bit of sandpaper and paint at bargain and resale outlets, thrift stores and even the trash dumpster. It’s good for your wallet, and reusing existing goods makes environmental sense. * “When I put on a pair of stockings, I use a dryer sheet to take away static cling. Use one sheet and run it over the surfaces of your legs. Your skirt will not cling, I promise.” -- H.F. in Oregon Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Located in The Village Green Hotel - 4801 27th Street next several months, Brandy slept beneath the bathroom window. • Elizabeth Wiederhold and her family owned a small island off Maine. Elizabeth spent the summer of 1974 there with her Newfoundland dog named Ursa. At the end of the summer she left her dog on the island and took her motorboat over to the mainland to pick up her family. However, they had been delayed and would not arrive till the next day. Although a heavy fog had moved in, she felt she could make it back to the island, only a mile away. Barely able to see beyond her boat, she eventually realized that the island should have appeared long ago. She was lost. In a panic, she screamed for help. Suddenly there was a bark and Ursa swam up to the boat. Sitting on the shore of the island, the dog recognized the sound of the family motorboat and realized something was wrong when the boat passed the island. She swam out to rescue her mistress. Elizabeth threw a line to the dog, who led her straight to the island’s dock. Elizabeth, who had been contemplating getting rid of the dog because she shed so much, changed her mind.
Amazing Plants
BAMBOO
“It seems that nature has given the dog to man for his defense and for his pleasure. Of all the animals it is the most faithful, it is the best friend man can have.” –Voltaire
• Bamboo is one of the most remarkable plants on the planet. Bamboo is not actually a tree; it is instead a member of the grass family. • There are nearly 1,500 different species of bamboo found throughout the warm tropical regions of Asia, Australia, North and South America, and Africa. • Species range from just a few inches tall to the giant bamboo which can reach a height of 164 feet (54 m) making it the tallest grass on Earth. • Bamboo is also the fastest-growing plants on Earth. Under ideal conditions, certain species can grow up to three feet in 24 hours. That works out to an inch and a half per hour (3.8 cm) making it the only plant that you can actually see grow. • Most woody trees take decades to reach maturity, but bamboo reaches maturity after only 1 to 5 years. This makes it a valuable commodity for a variety of uses, because it’s the only woody plant that grows fast enough to keep up with human consumption and deforestation. When it’s cut down, it regrows from the roots that remain in the soil, which prevents erosion. New crops don’t have to be replanted year after year. Bamboo requires no pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers as other crops do because it manufactures a natural antibacterial agent called bamboo kun which kills over 70% of the bacteria that land on it. This bamboo kun is often used in folk remedies to treat infections. • Bamboo releases 30% more oxygen into the atmosphere than other plants of comparable size, while also absorbing more carbon dioxide, cutting down on greenhouse gasses and cleaning the air. • The strength of bamboo is another remarkable feature. The tensile strength of steel is 24,000 PSI. The tensile strength of bamboo is 28,000
1. How many dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic? 2. What percent of dogs sleep on the bed with their owners? 3. Under ideal conditions, how many days until a scent fades to the point where a bloodhound can no longer detect it? 4. What percent of dog owners confess to talking to their dog over the phone when away from home? 5. This breed is named for the Welsh word meaning “dwarf dog.”
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PSI. Bamboo has been used as a construction material for thousands of years. When an earthquake devastated Costa Rica in 1992, the houses that best withstood the shaking were the ones made of bamboo. • After nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945, bamboo was one of the first plants to repopulate the area. • Another intriguing aspect of the plant is a phenomenon called gregarious flowering. Some species of bamboo flower once a year; other species flower whenever they reach maturity; but certain types of bamboo only flower once every 60 to 130 years, depending on the particular species. The strangest thing about this unusual pattern is that every single member of that particular species will flower at the exact same time, no matter where it is located: bamboo in Asia flowers at the same time the same species flowers on the other side of the planet in South America. After flowering, each individual plant drops a huge load of seeds. Because the plant has expended so much energy in flowering and going to seed, it then dies. New bamboo plants grow up from the seeds, and the cycle repeats its long genetically-imprinted pattern. • Bamboo shoots are edible and packed with fiber, forming an important part of Asian cuisine. However, the shoots contain a toxin called taxiphyllin harmful to humans. Because of that, bamboo needs to be cooked in order to destroy the toxin before eating. Many animals such as pandas, gorillas, and lemurs depend on bamboo as a primary food source. • Bamboo can be used in any application that uses wood: floors, furniture, even bike frames etc. It’s used as concrete reinforcement. The leaves make excellent livestock feed, and the fibers can be turned into cloth and insulation.
SUNFISH
• The sunfish is one of the most unique fish in the world. Also known as the common mola, it’s the heaviest bony fish on Earth. Although sharks and rays can be larger, their skeletons are made of cartilage rather than bone. • Sunfish can weigh up to nearly 5,000 pounds (2,268 kg), although the average weight of an adult is about 2,000 lbs. (907 kg) Consider that the average pick-up truck weighs around 4,000 lbs. (1,814 kg). • Sunfish can measure 14 feet (4.2 meters) tall and 10 feet (3.1 meters) long, giving them a disk-like appearance. As they grow, their tail folds back on itself, forming a sturdy rudder while giving them the appearance of being only half of a fish, with no tail at all. Their truncated tail, combined with their flattened profile, leads to their Latin name “Mola mola” which comes from the Latin word meaning “millstone” because they are round, flat, and grey just like a millstone. Other fish also in the sunfish family include largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, rock bass, and black bass. • The sunfish likes warm water and is usually found in tropical and temperate regions worldwide, though it often migrates long distances as the seasons change to take advantage of new food sources. It has often been seen as far north as Maine. • Female sunfish can produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate, up to 300 million eggs at a time, making sunfish the single most proliferate vertebrate animal on the planet. Newly hatched sunfish measure less than a tenth of an inch (2.5 mm) long, and survivors that reach adulthood will increase their proportions by more than 60 million times their birth size, the most extreme size growth of any vertebrate animal.
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Specially trained diabetic alert dogs are able to pick up on the special scent released when the insulin level in a human drops, letting their masters know in advance that they need to adjust their glucose levels. There are also dogs who can alert their epileptic owners to an impending seizure.
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• Sunfish eat mainly jellyfish but also consume small fish, plankton, and algae. Their front teeth are fused into a beak-like structure which prevents them from ever closing their mouths, giving them a facial expression of perpetual surprise. • Sunfish often float flat on the surface of the sea, basking in the warmth of the sun. Although they spend most of their time near the surface, they are also capable of diving quite deeply, up to 2,600 feet deep (792 m), where the water is quite cold. Keep in mind that the deepest dive ever accomplished by a scuba diver was 1,090 feet (332 m). Sunfish return to the surface to soak up the sun in order to warm up following a deep dive. The warmth also promotes digestion, while giving small fish and even birds a chance to remove abundant parasites from the sunfish by eating them. • Sunfish are slow and gentle and often approach skin divers out of pure curiosity, offering no threat of harm. The only case of a sunfish ever hurting a human being occurred when a sunfish leapt high in the air, a common maneuver meant to dislodge parasites, and landed on a boat, killing a boy. • Their only natural enemies are sea lions, killer whales, and sharks. They are often caught and killed in the unregulated use of gill nets, and some countries consider their meat a delicacy, while other countries ban the consumption of their meat. Some fishermen kill sunfish on sight to prevent them from stealing bait. Sunfish are unregulated worldwide. • By far the greatest enemy of sunfish is plastic trash floating in the ocean, particularly plastic bags, which resemble jellyfish and can clog their intestines, fill their stomachs to the point of starvation, or cause suffocation of these gentle giants.
1. Worldwide, this is the most popular breed of dog. 2. What percent of households in the U.S. have a dog?
1. LANGUAGE: What is the meaning of the Latin phrase “status quo”? 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is
a cenotaph? 3. MOVIES: What college did the characters in “The Big Chill” attend? 4. GEOGRAPHY: How many U.S. states are partly or wholly north of Canada’s southernmost point? 5. GAMES: What color is the No. 5 ball in billiards? 6. GEOMETRY: How many faces does a tetrahedron have? 7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which first lady wrote a daily newspaper column titled “My Day”? 8. RELIGION: When was the King James Bible
completed? 9. ART: What country was artist Joan Miro from? 10. U.S. STATES: What is Mississippi’s official state tree? Answers 1. The existing state of affairs 2. An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group whose remains are elsewhere. 3. University of Michigan 4. 27 5. Orange 6. Four 7. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt 8. 1611 9. Spain 10. Southern Magnolia (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Alternative Treatments: Do They Work for Pets? DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Recently, a friend recommended that I give my Lhasa Apso, “Cherie,” acupuncture treatments to cure her anxiety. I told her I’ve never heard of dogs getting acupuncture! My friend then told me that there are other treatments for dogs, like massage, homeopathy and more. Do these things really work? -- Curious in San Angelo, Texas
Spaghetti Stew The second week in September is Vegetarian Awareness Week, and even if you’re not a vegetarian, you’ll never miss the meat in this delicious stew. 2 cups reduced-sodium tomato juice 1 (8-ounce) can Hunt’s Tomato Sauce 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1 1/2 cups shredded carrots 1 1/2 cups chopped celery 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 1/3 cups (4 ounces) uncooked broken spaghetti 1/4 cup Kraft Reduced Fat Parmesan Style Grated Topping 1. In a large skillet, combine tomato juice, tomato sauce, Italian seasoning, carrots, celery and onion. Bring mixture to a boil. Stir in uncooked spaghetti. Continue cooking for 10 to 12 minutes or until vegetables and spaghetti are tender. 2. When serving, top each dish with 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese. Makes 4 (1 cup) servings. TIP: If you don’t like the crunch of the vegetables, they can be sauteed first. * Each serving equals: 210 calories, 2g fat, 7g protein, 41g carbs, 544mg sodium, 106mg calcium, 4g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 3 Vegetables, 2 Starch; Carb Choices: 3. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
DEAR CURIOUS: Almost any alternative therapy available to humans today is available to pets as well (especially dogs and cats) in many areas of the U.S. That includes acupuncture, massage, chiropractic and even energy healing arts like Reiki. Acupuncture has a few scientific studies behind it, and while the jury is still out on how well it can reduce dogs’ anxiety, studies have found that acupuncture can help relieve pain. A 2006 study published by the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine found “encouraging data” worth pursuing in future studies, saying there was no reason to recommend or reject acupuncture as an effective treatment for animals. Just as with humans, massage can help relax muscles and relieve the chronic pain of arthritis, and chiropractic also has been shown to be helpful. A 2016 study by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association combined acupuncture with massage, for example, and noted that after treatment, “significant improvement was seen in the dogs’ ability to walk, trot, jump and rise from a lying position.” However, whether energy healing works or not depends on who you ask. The effects of healing therapies like Reiki on pets are hard to measure. There is a great deal of skepticism about their effectiveness, so approach such treatments cautiously, and research both the treatment and the person offering it before trying it out on Cherie. Send your tips, comments and questions to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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by Samantha Weaver * It was 20th-century American pediatrician and author Benjamin Spock who made the following sage observation: “All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.” * If you’re lucky enough to be hanging out with a bunch of frolicsome pug dogs, you can accurately call your companions a grumble of pugs. * You might be surprised to learn that an early version of scuba diving took place as early as the 1770s. A man named Andrew Becker wore his leather-covered diving suit during an hourlong immersion in a London stretch of the River Thames. He even had a window in his helmet -though there’s no report on what, if anything, he saw in the notoriously murky waters. * Those who study such things say that the average American man shaves at least 20,000 times in his life. If you add up all that time spent shaving, by the time he reaches the age of 75 a man has spent more than 37 days with a razor in his hand. * If you decide to move to Kentucky, you might want to keep in mind that in that state, it’s against the law to paint your lawn red. Thought for the Day: “Humanity needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.” -- Marie Curie (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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A German shepherd seeing-eye dog named Orient led his human, Bill Irwin, over the 2,100-mile (3,379 km) Appalachian Trail. Irwin was the first blind man to make the journey.
1. Three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic – two Pomeranians and one Pekingese. All were from first class cabins. 2. 45% of dogs sleep on the bed with their owners. 3. Bloodhounds are able to trace scents that are over 12 days old. 4. A survey found that 33% of dog owners talk to their dogs on the phone when they are away, or leave messages on the answering machine. 5. Corgi is Welsh word for “dwarf dog.”
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1. Labrador retrievers are the most popular breed of dog worldwide. 2. 62% of households in the U.S. include a dog.
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