06-10-2001, 02:12 PM
I will try to keep this brief but I feel this should be mentioned.
I have been watching the Discovery channel, as usual, and today they did a show on dogs - how they were domesticated, their sense of smell and how dogs are used by humans to help them search for things.
We finally got War Dogs honored and a movie has been made (I wasn't even aware that dogs were used in war until a few months ago) and today I learned that dogs are used for more than just K9 cops and drug searches.
Dogs can assist pest controllers to find termite nests to prevent structural damage to homes. They are used to find missing people, drugs and criminals. They are also experimenting with dogs to see if they can find cancers and other diseases on people!
Just in watching this show I have learned so much about dogs and I had to go out in the living room and hug my 3 girls. I knew they had very acute senses of hearing and smell but I still didn't know just how good they were. As like most dogs, mine know the sound of my car. They are happy and excited before I pull into our parking lot from the street. They said dogs are able to tell the difference in sounds between identical vehicles. They showed two dogs completely ignore one jeep cherokee and they got excited before the 2nd jeep cherokee was even in site!
Maybe you have seen this show. But at the end they went into the genetic problems that some purebreds have and how petstores in malls sell puppies from puppy mills and how so many dogs end up abandoned and homeless. They showed one adorable little puppy living in a garbage dump! So, the show started off great and happy and I ended up crying at the end.
Sorry to ramble, my whole point is that dogs deserve major recognition. They do so much for humans and help us accomplish things that we can't do on our own and they provide us with love and loyalty unmatched by anything. Some suffer at our hands and some thrive from our love.
Dogs are amazing creatures and yet scientists believe that it was an accident that dogs were even domesticated in the first place. So we ar very lucky to have them. I just want to recognize and thank every single dog out there. My hats off to you all. And especially hats off to those caring humans that train these dogs and love these dogs and to those that resuce and assist dogs in need. Thank you http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/biggrin.gif!
Guess that wasn't very brief but it is a hard thing to do when I get on this subject.
Angel http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif
I have been watching the Discovery channel, as usual, and today they did a show on dogs - how they were domesticated, their sense of smell and how dogs are used by humans to help them search for things.
We finally got War Dogs honored and a movie has been made (I wasn't even aware that dogs were used in war until a few months ago) and today I learned that dogs are used for more than just K9 cops and drug searches.
Dogs can assist pest controllers to find termite nests to prevent structural damage to homes. They are used to find missing people, drugs and criminals. They are also experimenting with dogs to see if they can find cancers and other diseases on people!
Just in watching this show I have learned so much about dogs and I had to go out in the living room and hug my 3 girls. I knew they had very acute senses of hearing and smell but I still didn't know just how good they were. As like most dogs, mine know the sound of my car. They are happy and excited before I pull into our parking lot from the street. They said dogs are able to tell the difference in sounds between identical vehicles. They showed two dogs completely ignore one jeep cherokee and they got excited before the 2nd jeep cherokee was even in site!
Maybe you have seen this show. But at the end they went into the genetic problems that some purebreds have and how petstores in malls sell puppies from puppy mills and how so many dogs end up abandoned and homeless. They showed one adorable little puppy living in a garbage dump! So, the show started off great and happy and I ended up crying at the end.
Sorry to ramble, my whole point is that dogs deserve major recognition. They do so much for humans and help us accomplish things that we can't do on our own and they provide us with love and loyalty unmatched by anything. Some suffer at our hands and some thrive from our love.
Dogs are amazing creatures and yet scientists believe that it was an accident that dogs were even domesticated in the first place. So we ar very lucky to have them. I just want to recognize and thank every single dog out there. My hats off to you all. And especially hats off to those caring humans that train these dogs and love these dogs and to those that resuce and assist dogs in need. Thank you http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/biggrin.gif!
Guess that wasn't very brief but it is a hard thing to do when I get on this subject.
Angel http://PetoftheDay.com/talk/smile.gif