She Saved the Puppies!

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Travel & Places on November 21, 2009 at 10:29 am

British citizen and experienced sailor Laura Hughes and her friend John Cochrane were battling gale force winds off the Turkish coast when a rope got caught in her boat’s propeller and killed the engine. She sent a Mayday signal and a boat responded, but the crew demanded 10,000 euros for their rescue -more money than Hughes had. So she jumped in to swim to shore. But she had some precious cargo to take with her -two dogs and their nine puppies who were born during the boat trip!

So, wearing a lifejacket, Miss Hughes jumped out of the boat, carrying the nine Rottweiler puppies ‘African-style’ by balancing the crate on her head and holding the side with one hand while swimming with the other.

Mr Cochrane and the two adult dogs also jumped off the boat and swam to the nearest beach at the Greek resort of Lalissos about 100 metres from their boat.When they got to the shore, exhausted, they were helped by German tourists from a beach hotel and members of the emergency services.

The British Embassy found Laura and John a hotel room for the night – and the puppies spent the night at a local Greek police station.

Link -via Arbroath

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Dog With Heart Mark Has Matching Brother

Posted by Jill Harness in Animal, Everything Else on August 7, 2009 at 8:48 pm

Heart-Kun is an adorable dog with a heart marking on his side. He’s a minor internet celebrity and was even featured on the post we recently linked to featuring animals with heart markings. His parents recently gave birth to a new litter, including little Love-Kun who also has a heart marking. Now that is one special family.

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Fluorescent Puppies

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal, Science & Tech on April 24, 2009 at 8:53 am

The world’s first transgenic dogs are a litter of four cloned beagles that glow red under ultraviolet light. The puppies were cloned by a team led by scientists at Seoul National University in South Korea. They used a virus to infect canine fibroblast cells with the glowing gene, then cloned cells to produce 344 embryos implanted into 20 dogs, producing seven pregnancies.

A team led by Byeong-Chun Lee of Seoul National University in South Korea created the dogs by cloning fibroblast cells that express a red fluorescent gene produced by sea anemones.

Lee and stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang were part of a team that created the first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005. Much of Hwang’s work on human cells turned out to be fraudulent, but Snuppy was not, an investigation later concluded.

This new proof-of-principle experiment should open the door for transgenic dog models of human disease, says team member CheMyong Ko of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. “The next step for us is to generate a true disease model,” he says.

Link -via Buzzfeed

See also: Fluorescent cats, fish, pigs, and rabbits.

 
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Who's Watching the Puppy Bowl Today?

Posted by Stacy in Animal, Video Clips on February 1, 2009 at 11:40 am

Not to sound like a complete girl cliche, but I’m really not interested in the Super Bowl this year. There are some years I’m interested, but not this year. And I should probably care a little more, since Kurt Warner is from Iowa, but… meh.

But Puppy Bowl? That’s an event I can get behind. Plus, the website is kind of awesome. It gives you tips and tricks on how to throw the perfect Puppy Bowl party (tail-gate, hahaha), offers tongue-in-cheek interviews with the Puppy Bowl “ref,” lets you check out the starting lineup and even gives you a sneak preview of this year’s Star Spangled Banner Performer – Pepper the Parrot.

I confess – part of the reason the Puppy Bowl is awesome is because I think it’s funny to watch my dogs watching dogs on T.V.

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Sleeping Puppy Can-Can Line

Posted by Jill Harness in Animal, Funny, Pictures on January 26, 2009 at 8:47 pm

This is justs precious. I like to think of them dancing in this same formation when they grow up.

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Pomeranian Ambassador of Tokyo

Posted by Jill Harness in Animal, Fashion on December 15, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Speaking of adorable animals, who could ever resist this little pup in her lovely kimono?

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It's The Wiener Dog Song

Posted by Jill Harness in Animal, Music, Video Clips on December 5, 2008 at 2:33 pm

This video is just too precious. Who doesn’t love wienie dogs?

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