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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:36 PM
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Ultimate Loyalty: Japanese Dog Refuses to Leave Injured Friend Behind
This video broke my heart.

The dog stays by his canine friend who was injured in the tsunami. As they filmed him, his body language was so obvious. He was saying, "Come, please, come! Help my friend! See how hurt he is!"

I read that both are being cared for at an animal shelter now, but I could never have filmed that obvious plea for assistance for so long without, you know, putting the damned camera down and helping!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3TM9GL2iLI&feature=player_embedded
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:42 PM
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1. English translation: they didn't know whether the dog would bite so they didn't try any moves.
All's well that ends well, though. If it weren't for their film, I doubt the dogs would have made it.
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:43 PM
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2. Probably true--both points. Still, the video was heartbreaking.
Also, the ambulatory dog was obviously wet and cold, and that made me want to wrap him in a blanket--and my arms. Poor babies.
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:52 PM
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8. Could you actually understand the speaker, or are you just
guessing (though it's a good guess, of course, if that is what it is)?
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:44 PM
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3. As if we haven't had enough to cry over.......glad to hear they're ok.
Thanks for posting!
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:45 PM
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4. I am the ultimate sap for animals. Not just dogs--most
animals. But dogs, cats, ferrets, and parrots are at the top of my beloved list.
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adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:48 PM
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5. I can't even watch - I do dog rescue, and I have a dog
at my house, the sweetest dog, he always looks out for the other dogs. When he runs in the house, he looks back to make sure the other dogs are coming, too. I love him and I love all dogs and cats!! They can be better than people.
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:50 PM
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6. The video is heartbreaking, but at least both dogs have been taken to a shelter
and are being cared for. I hate to think of how frightened they must have been during the whole ordeal.
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adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:56 PM
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14. I pray it is not like our southern shelters
where they will be gassed. Sigh.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 01:30 PM
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27. Right on! Very few no-kill shelters
here in the Atlanta area. I only know of dog rescue groups that shelter dogs until they can be found forever homes, as I worked with a few of them by transporting dogs.
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:01 PM
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17. one of my dogs tonight stopped in front of a shop window
and looked with concern at a statue of a kangaroo in the window. It was a kangaroo with a very doglike face. She whined slightly then tried to go into the store (it was closed). Came back to the window and suddenly jumped up on the glass. She fretted a little more. I really think she was concerned that the kangaroo was alive and not acting normally. She is like that. She looked in a simialr way at the refrigerator one time when the compressor made that sort of sigh that they do when they stop sometimes.

Inspiring creatures.
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adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:02 PM
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18. Dog is God backward
And forward, too, in my book. If we acted like dogs, the world would be a much better place. Except we would sniff each others' butts. A small price to pay. :)
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:52 PM
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7. Dogs are amazing
Very empathetic to other dogs and to humans.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:53 PM
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9. I don't know - I couldn't watch the whole thing but that one dog doesn't appear to be breathing
how do we know they are both OK?
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:56 PM
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11. The hurt dog actually lifts his head up near the end of the video, and the
other dog cuddles him with his head. Also, both are apaprently in a shelter now and being cared for.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:56 PM
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12. The injured dog is at a clinic, the guardian dog at a shelter. Update came from
a forum on a Japanese television station from someone involved with the rescue.
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:59 PM
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15. Thanks. I do wish they could have kept them together, though, since
Edited on Tue Mar-15-11 10:00 PM by tblue37
the other dog so obviously feels responsible for his friend and worried about him.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 01:27 PM
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26. I'll bet we're not the only one's who've thought of that. I'm guessing they will try to reunite
the dogs after the injured one is well.

I choose to keep just one little tiny scrap of optimism in the midst of all of this unimaginable horror. :cry:
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:00 PM
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16. oh good- thanks. It was too hard to watch that. I can't imagine just filming that poor dog
go help for goodness sake!
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:32 PM
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21. Toward the end it is apparent she's alive.
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:53 PM
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10. I love dogs, so much.
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 09:56 PM
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13. Aw gee
:cry: so glad they were both rescued.
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laundry_queen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:11 PM
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19. Ah, geez
that is about the most touching thing I have seen in my life. I hope they have good lives from here on out and either are reunited with their families, or find a new forever home. I am going to go have a good cry now...
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 04:23 AM
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24. I imagine their family is gone, since they were all alone out there. nt
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femrap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:24 PM
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20. I can't watch....
all about that 'helping' thing.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:35 PM
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22. There's so much beauty in that. I just wish that humans possessed
a wider and broader 'dog gene'.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 10:46 PM
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23. I agree I could never have filmed that obvious plea for help in stead of providing help....
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CrawlingChaos Donating Member (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 04:50 AM
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25. That made me cry like a baby
I need to believe they are together and being well cared for. To think otherwise would be unbearable.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 01:36 PM
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28. heart breaking. so much suffering. :(
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 01:38 PM
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29. Thank you. Much needed in a wounded world.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 01:40 PM
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30. Guardian dog has a collar on!
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-11 08:12 PM
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31. Yes, but I am guessing that his family was lost in the tsunami.
I hope I am wrong and that they are all reunited.
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-11 07:31 AM
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32. I was going to post this

Thanks for posting.
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pecwae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-11 08:16 AM
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33. I can't watch it,
but thanks for letting us know. I recall watching the one in Brazil (can't remember precisely)of two dogs on a highway, one gets hit, the other drags him out of the road. I was sorry I looked at that. I was haunted for weeks.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-11 08:44 AM
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34. I can't watch it either
my cousing posted it on Facebook last night, and I just don't have the courage :cry:
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pecwae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-11 11:09 AM
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35. Then we'll be right
with one another on this :hug: There's so much pain in this world, but the least creatures tug harder on my heart strings.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-11 12:50 PM
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36. ....
:hug:
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