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No need to shop, Sunday Roast comes to your door and announces it's arrival. What could be bad about that ?
Roast mutt.
No need to shop, Sunday Roast comes to your door and announces it's arrival. What could be bad about that ?
A dog's sense of smell is so good, it can smell a kipper on the Moon.
If that's not sixth sense I don't know what is.
I had a Filipino coworker too. He was incredibly superstitious and liked dogs. So, he had an extreme aversion to eating them, which didn't go over well with his in-laws that served it to him and he spit it out. :dinner:A coworker of Filipino descent tells me that legend in the Philippines has it that if you eat dog, dogs will know. They'll follow you around and bark at you.
(C) The Guardian. '19.The scent-tracking abilities of trained dogs have helped archaeologists discover iron age tombs in Croatia dating back nearly three thousand years.
The dogs sniffed out burial chests containing human bones and artefacts in a hilltop fort in the Velebit mountains along the Adriatic coast. Experts have said that using dogs could be a good way to identify archaeological sites, as it is less destructive than many traditional methods.
“Dogs’ noses obviously don’t make mistakes,” said Vedrana Glavaš, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Zadar in Croatia and the lead author of the study, which was published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
Glavaš had already found a few tombs in a necropolis near the prehistoric hilltop fort of Drvišica, which dates back to the eight century BC. Hoping to find more, she contacted Andrea Pintar, a trainer who works with dogs used for sniffing out graves in criminal investigations.
I wasn't aware of the article in the NAT. GEO. sorry
FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/ebd51f15786dda74e2d84ea76cfcf8ccNot easy being green: North Carolina dog births unique puppy
The Avengers may have gained a canine sidekick after a North Carolina family’s dog gave birth to a bright green puppy named “Hulk.”
Gypsy, a white shepherd owned by Haywood County resident Shana Stamey, delivered eight puppies Friday morning. Gypsy’s three-hour labor was going smoothly until the fourth puppy came out as a small, but mighty tuft of lime green fur, Stamey said.
“I started freaking out,” Stamey told news outlets. “But everybody was healthy.”
Experts said there’s a normal explanation for the puppy’s coloration — and no, he wasn’t exposed to any gamma rays. Liquid from inside Gypsy’s stomach likely stained the white dog’s fur during pregnancy, Suzanne Cianciulli, the manager of Junaluska Animal Hospital in Waynesville, told news outlets.
Regular baths and daily licks from Gypsy are expected to fade Hulk’s green hue in a few weeks, Stamey said. ...
Liquid from inside Gypsy’s stomach likely stained the white dog’s fur during pregnancy
There are similarities, certainly.I can't read JRT for Jack Russel Terrier, without first thinking, 'Jack Ripper, The'!
What a fantastic dog, I'd like to fuss him till his fur fell out. He deserves a hundred of the smelliest treats available and a fresh rotting dead rat to roll in every day for a year.I can't imagine a cat doing this. To think that some here dislike JRTs.
A hero Jack Russell terrier managed to find a newborn girl abandoned in bushes.
Macho tugged at his lead to pull his owner off the path and deep into the undergrowth in a park St Petersburg, Russia. The child, too weak to cry and suffering from hypothermia, was wrapped only in a T-shirt. ‘I felt my heart pounding when I saw the baby,’ said the owner, a pensioner. “She was waving her little legs and arms in the air, but she was silent.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/24/jack...article.desktop.share.top.twitter?ito=cbshare
I've never taken to Jack Russells - stroppy yappy little buggers with attitude. When I was a kid we looked after a friend's for a couple of weeks. We had a couple of hamsters in a cage about 5 ft off the ground. It liked to jump up and swing to & fro with it's teeth clamped on the bars of the cage.
It used to jump over the garden fence & we'd find it 4 gardens away. We took it for a walk in a largeish wood & it ran off & disappeared. We searched but had to come home without it. I can't remember the details but somehow we got it back after a nervous few days. The wood was about 20 miles away.
Much later I had a job situated on an industrial estate with an encampment ofgyppostravellers opposite. They had a JRT which if you were on a bike, would go for & try to bite your ankles & you'd attempt to kick it whilst pedalling.
Associated with the same job, there was a nearby supplier I went to sometimes where the fork lift driver had a JRT which would jump up & ride along with him. He always said - "don't go near 'im, he'll nip yer". I kept my distance.
FULL STORY: https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-m...ut-the-radiated-heat-emanating-from-an-objectIn a Weird Twist, Dogs Might Be Able to Sniff Out Heat Emanating From an Object
We already know dogs are amazing creatures, and scientists just discovered another talent our canine friends seem to possess: they appear to be able to sniff out the heat of other animals through their cold snouts.
It's all apparently down to the rhinarium – that area of smooth, furless skin around the nostrils of most mammals. When it comes to dogs, that patch of skin is moist, cool, and packed with nerves, and can apparently sense weak thermal radiation.
This is a rare trait, with only black fire beetles, certain snake species, and the common vampire bat known to have this heat-sniffing capability – and they all use it to hunt prey. ...
It's possible that other animals possess this same skill and we just don't know about it, the team behind the study says – and that could lead to a whole host of prey-predator relationships and predator hunting strategies getting re-evaluated.
Of course, this is only one paper, so more work needs to be done to confirm this skill exists. It's also not clear exactly how this radiated heat is being sensed, or if it is definitely the dog's rhinarium involved, but the experiments are suggestive enough to warrant further investigation into the heat-smelling abilities of dogs. ...
This is an extremely-profound point. When we are in total up-close intimate contact with a co-evolved creature (and been its proxy-creator in the sense of selective breeding)... we might >think< we've got a total understanding of its sensory capabilities: yet we're nowhere near having that understanding.I find it fascinating that something so significant concerning a species we could hardly be closer to has gone unrealised for so long
This is an extremely-profound point. When we are in total up-close intimate contact with a co-evolved creature (and been its proxy-creator in the sense of selective breeding)... we might >think< we've got a total understanding of its sensory capabilities: yet we're nowhere near having that understanding.
If only we could somehow model that gap not so much in our knowledge, but in our whole process of insight....and begin to fully unlock all the mysteries of man's best friend (eg the dogs-that-know-when-their-owners-are-returning phenomenon)
Joking aside, I find it fascinating that something so significant concerning a species we could hardly be closer to has gone unrealised for so long.
"There are so many rabbit holes, we didn't know which hole he could have gone in," he said.
After a two-week search involving the fire service, underground cameras, a blood hound and a psychic failed, his owners were convinced the dog had died.
"On Monday, I sealed up all the holes dug in the search because they were unsafe, thinking I was burying our little dog,"
But the following morning, a "thin, emaciated and weak" Simba suddenly reappeared at the house.
Vet Lynne Gaskarth from Drove Veterinary Hospital said it was "incredible" that Simba "survived so long underground without access to food and water".
She said he had been "severely dehydrated" and had lost a quarter of his body weight.