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Editor: Steven Cerkiewicz April 2014
A young Siberian boy miraculously
survived three freezing nights trapped
in a service shaft thanks to a friendly
stray who kept him warm.
According to the Siberian Times,
7-year-old Raul Kutliakhmetov was
attempting to rescue the dog from the
service shaft when he, too, tumbled
down the 3-meter hole. Unable to
climb out or cry for help, the pair relied
on each other for warmth through three
freezing nights until rescuers fnally
arrived.
Raul was on his way home from
school when he heard the sound of
the trapped stray. It was coming
from inside the uncovered hole on the
side of the road, he told the Siberian
Times. I looked inside and saw my
favourite dog down there.
Raul recognized the dog as the
one he often played with in his home
village in Bashkiria near the Ural
Mountains.
I wanted to save the dog and fell
inside; I was calling but no one heard
me, Raul told the Siberian Times.
The stone walls of the shaft may have
muffed his cries for help, reported the
Daily Mail.
Rauls worried mother then
contacted the authorities. The Russian
Interior Ministry began broadcasting
an ad about her missing son.
Two hundred volunteers joined the
hunt for the boy, but it wasnt until
72 hours after Raul went missing that
road workers were able to locate him.
We went around them and heard
a dog wailing, Maksim Belskiy, a
local road engineer, explained. There
inside the well together with the dog
was a boy. We called the police and
ambulance immediately.
A doctor who treated Raul later said:
We are in awe at how he managed to
survive, sitting inside there for three
days. He told us that all that time his
dog and him were clutching to each
other trying to warm each other up.
Night temperatures sank as low as
-10 C, but the dogs body heat kept
hypothermia at bay.
Raul is now back home safely, and
the stray was also kept from harms
way.
Dog and Boy Stay Warm in Cold
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of Approval
Inventor Adam Harrington was
sitting on his front porch, just outside
of Nashville, watching his two large
Boxers, Harley and Hailey, play
vigorously with a bowling ball in
his yard. Harrington found himself
thinking about what would make the
toy more fun his dogs seemed to
love the game they had
invented, but appeared
frustrated by their
inability to get a grip
on the heavy, smooth
ball.
And then Harrington
got an idea: He drilled a hole in the
bowling ball, and tied a rope through
it. The next morning, he gave the toy
to his dogs and left for work.
That evening, when his mother
returned home, the dogs were
nowhere to be seen. She was sure
the dogs had been stolen.
Fortunately, Harley and Hailey
were soon discovered sound asleep
in the bedroom. The bowling ball
rope toy, on the other hand, was an
acre away, where it had rolled beyond
the invisible fence, thus ending what
was clearly an exciting game for the
Boxers.
Clearly, Harrington
was onto something.
He created a prototype,
which he called the Tuggo
Dog Toy, based on his
bowling ball and rope; it
consists of a hard plastic
ball with a rope through it. The ball
is smooth, like a bowling ball, and
both pieces are extremely durable.
The weight of the ball can be adjusted
by flling it with water completely
full, it weighs 20 pounds (and makes
a satisfying sloshing sound during
playtime).
The Tale of the Tuggo
Sugar, a white furry cat who is deaf,
plunged 19 foors from a window in a
high-rise building in Boston and lived
to walk another day, animal rescue
offcials say.
A woman in the West End building
said she saw a white streak go by her
window early Wednesday afternoon
and then saw Sugar after she hit the
ground, said Mike Brammer, assistant
manager of the animal rescue services
department at the Animal Rescue
League of Boston.
Whether cats can sometimes
aim, so if it did it itself or if it was
a combination of luck or both it
managed to hit that small patch of
mulch, so it was very soft ground, he
said.
Sugar, who was tended to by the
building concierge before rescue
offcials arrived, suffered a small
cut on her lip and a little bruising,
including some to her lungs.
Considering what she had been
through, she was in really good shape,
he said.
Sugars owner, Brittney Kirk, a
32-year-old registered nurse, said at
frst she didnt think her cat had made
it. She had left the window open due to
the warm weather because she didnt
want Sugar to be in a hot apartment.
It just seemed so unreal my
thought was obviously that she didnt
make it, she said. I was defnitely
relieved and kind of in disbelief if
there were a cat to fall 19 stories and
to be fne, I think it would defnitely be
Sugar, because shes a pretty special
cat.
Landing on All Fours
Summer brings warm weather and
sunny days but it also brings itchy,
crawly pests and diseases that can
make your pet sick. Your pet depends
on you to keep him safe so learn how
to prevent the following discomforts
and diseases and take appropriate
measures to protect him.
If you see a tick attached to your
pets skin, remove it by grabbing the
tick as close as you can to the skin
using tweezers. Dont cover the tick
with petroleum jelly, rubbing alcohol
or fngernail polish, or try to burn the
tick with a match. Swab the area with
alcohol once the tick is removed.
Fleas: For a tiny little parasite, feas
can cause great discomfort in your
pet. Scratching is the typical response,
however, some pets are more allergic
to fea bites than others, resulting in
severe skin infections and hair loss.
Untreated, your pet could become
anemic. This is especially true in very
young and very old pets.
Heartworm: Female mosquitoes
transmit heartworm disease from one
animal to another through a single
bite. No dog or cat or specifc breed
is immune. Even inside dogs and
cats could be at risk. All it takes is
one mosquito to get into your house
through a screen door or an open
window to jeopardize the health of
your pet.
Treatment for heartworm disease is
serious and expensive. The best thing
you can do for your pet is to prevent
the disease by using medication
prescribed by your veterinarian.
Protecting Your Pets from Diseases