Online dating sites set up for dogs
Online ‘dating’ websites now exist for dogs. ..
Woman protecting her dog gets chased by an eagle
A British woman who tried to save her dog from getting snatched by an eagle has ended up running for cover when the bird started to attack her…
DogTV cable channel launched in US to keep canines busy
A cable channel has been launched in the US that aims to keep dogs occupied when their owners are away.
DogTV is an eight-hour on-demand service that helps keep canines entertained, stimulated and relaxed, say its creators. Specially created music and muted colours were used to produce the programming, along with low and long shots aimed to replicate how dogs view the world…
Minister Greg Barker takes small dog into meeting on cushion
(Not a picture of a dachshund though – sloppy journalism.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/feb/14/underwater-dogs-pictures
I took Lady CC to the Greenwich Park Dachshund meet for the Dachshunds in London club. There were about 15 little sausages running around while the band played. It was great. Lady CC was her usual aloof self but did let her hair down when she met Lily, a toypoodle/terrier cross. She and Lily had a major run around together – wonderful to see. CC was the popular one of the day I think. She had her photo taken a few times and various children would come over to pet her. She was the largest as all the other sausages where minatures. There was one other wire-haired one – tiny thing with curly fair fur.
The children's favourite
Another doxie
A few at play
In the park
Just found out that a dachshund was the first official Olympic mascot – 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Its name was Waldi. Here is a picture of Waldi next to a Couscous look alike – http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OlympicPrimer/waldi.htm
This is a website dedicated to the stray dogs of the Russian metro. Passengers post photos etc showing the dogs using public transport.
There is one special sub-group of strays that stands apart from the rest: Moscow’s metro dogs. ‘The metro dog appeared for the simple reason that it was permitted to enter’, says Andrei Neuronov, an author and specialist in animal behaviour and psychology…’This began in the late 1980’s during perestroika’, he says, ‘when more food appeared people began to live better and feed the strays’. The dogs started by riding on overground trains and buses where supervisors were becoming increasingly thin on the ground.
Neuronov says there are some 500 strays that live in the metro stations, especially during the colder months, but only 20 have learned how to ride the trains. This happened gradually, first as a way to broaden their territory. Later, it became a way of life. ‘Why should they go by foot if they can move around by public transport?’
‘They orient themselves in a number of ways…They figure out where they are by smell, by recognising the name of the station from the recorded announcer’s voice and by time intervals. If, for example, you come every Monday and feed a dog, that dog will know when it’s Monday and the hour to expect you, based on their sense of time intervals from their biological clocks.’
The metro dog also has uncannily good instincts about people, happily greeting kindly passers by , but slinking down the furthest escalator to avoid the intolerant older women who oversee the metro’s electronic turnstiles. ‘Right outside this metro’, say Neuronov, gesturing toward Frunzenskaya station, a short distance from the park where we were speaking, ‘a black dog sleeps on a mat. He’s called Malish. And this is what I saw one day: a bowl of freshly ground beef set before him, and slowly, and ever so lazily, he scooped it up with his tongue while lying down.’
From: Susanne Sternthal, “A wolf in dog’s clothing”. FT Weekend January 16/17 2010, pp.24-29.
