The Most Heroic Animals of 2010

The Daily Beast collected stories of animal heroism from the past year that might make you a bit teary-eyed. The story of Angel the golden retriever is an example.
Eleven-year-old Austin Foreman was gathering firewood near his home in Boston Bar, British Columbia, when he came face to face with a cougar. When the wild cat lunged at him, his Golden Retriever, Angel, stepped in. She put herself between Austin and the cougar, giving him time to escape to the house. The cougar viciously attacked Angel, carrying her around by the neck while Austin’s mother called 911. Police arrived just in time to shoot the cougar, and after a few moments of suspense, Angel coughed back to life. She had several puncture wounds and a punctured sinus cavity, but she made a full recovery.

See a video report about Angel and read about the other heroic animals in a slide show. Link -via Nag on the Lake

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Some of these are making me sad. Like the dog Target that stopped a suicide bomber. It was brought over here, escaped from its owners yard and was 'accidently' put to sleep. UGH
Or the cat distracting the pitbulls and the judge ordering the dogs to be put to sleep.
Etc....
Just depressing as hell.
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It's a fine example all right, it's a fine example of putting human attributes on dumb animals.

Dogs attack cats - there's NO WAY of knowing if it was millions of years of evolutionary instinct or the warm fuzzies that Lassie had for Timmy.
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The question I have regarding the people overusing after the vaccine is in effect, is if it's a chemical issue, or just a habitual one in the patient.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) was created to cure human disease. That this inane and doomed concept was not only funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) but also announced by its director demonstrates that the primary function of NIH today is to fund the expensive life styles of its experts.

Addiction can be treated only by relieving craving, not by making addiction more expensive. Raising the price of one's fix destroys the individual and societal goals.

Treatment of addiction by increasing in an appropriate fashion the brain levels of two neuro-transmitters,dopamine and serotonin, is available now in what is called the PURSOR protocol. Unfortunately, while it is cheap, not toxic and employs only natural substances, levodopa and 5-HTP, it makes not a penny for PHARMA or the experts. Since the same protocol also remits depression and anxiety, it must be vigorously stopped. I should know, they effectively stopped me ten years ago.

Pietr Hitzig
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They just let these people walk free?

For christ's sake.. weather or not they're Vaccanated they're still addicts and need guidence and help...*forheadpalms*
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Misleading. It's not compelling the users to take 10 times as much. Users have to take that much to get high again.

Sounds like it builds up a resistance rather than curing the addiction.
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In the past ., Cocaine appears to damage the brain’s natural reward mechanisms one of Director of the Brain Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. “You continually blast the reward circuit and it becomes less sensitive. So the person has this blunted reward circuit, doesn’t feel good at all, and soon the fastest way just to feel normal is to take the drug.”
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