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A dog was admitted to a veterinary clinic in Austria at the weekend, barely able to stand on his own four paws and reeking "like a beer hall," a newspaper reported on Monday.
Dingo, a three-year-old labrador weighing 40 kilogrammes (88 pounds), was a pitiful sight when his owner, a hunter, brought him in to the surgery in the Salzkammergut region, the Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten quoted vet Karl Hofbauer as saying.
"The dog had dreadful wind and diarrhea, and was vomiting a lot," Hofbauer said.
"When I got him up on the table, it smelt like a distillery."
Tests indicated that the dog had a blood alcohol content of 1.6 milligrams per 100 millilitres.
But that was not the result of Dingo having one drink too many, the owner insisted.
The hungry pooch had stolen and secretly devoured half a kilogramme of fresh yeast dough from the kitchen. Alcohol had formed inside his stomach as a result of the fermentation process, leaving poor old Dingo stone drunk.
"Nasty-minded people said that we hunters are often drunk. With me, it's my dog," joked the owner.
From Yahoo News
Originally posted at 1:06PM, 7 January 2008 PDT
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That is funny, thanks for sharing, I trust the dog got over it!
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Dog Saves Boy From Fire by Biting Foot
AP
Posted: 2008-01-08 08:04:11
PORTAGE, Ind. (Jan. 7) - A black Labrador that bit a 13-year-old boy's foot repeatedly, waking him up, is being credited with saving the boy and two of his friends from a house fire. Christopher Peebles said he woke up Friday morning to feel his dog Laney biting his foot repeatedly in the basement of his family's home, where he and two friends had spent the night.
"I thought she had to go to the bathroom, but she never bites me," Peebles said Friday.
He and his friends walked upstairs with Laney and noticed smoke everywhere in the home.
"We came up the stairs and thought it was a dream, but it was cold when we opened the door - then we knew it wasn't a dream," Pebbles said.
Firefighters arrived about 10 a.m. and found the home's garage and eaves on fire. Assistant Fire Chief Mike Bucy said the damage was mostly in the attached one-car garage of the ranch home.
Fire Chief Bill Lundy said the fire, which caused an estimated $25,000 in damage to the home, appeared to have started in an electrical heating unit in the garage.
Peebles' parents, Dave and Vicky Peebles, were both at work at the time of the fire. They said they were relieved that their son and his friends were not injured.
Dave Peebles said that one point after Laney had ushered Christopher and his friends out of the house the dog ran back inside and wouldn't come out until he went in to get her.
Peebles said his son and the dog were "real close."
"She's always been very protective of him," Vicky Peebles said of Laney.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.
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Yay! Laney. WTG (Way to go!)
I hope she got lots of treats.
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Royal (mail) stamp of approval.
These look so cool.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7227176.stm
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A horrendous story, but amazing that a dog discovered a child's body through inches of concrete.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7263355.stm
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A baby girl was saved by stray dogs after she was abandoned in a mound of mud.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/od_nm/child_dc_1;_ylt=As1AlC...
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This heartwarming story has some lovely photos too. If you like Great Danes and Bambi, you'll love this. :-)
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1932051/Great-Dane-makes-a-deer-...
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Lost toddler helped by family dog:
www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=5fb6bf6e-...
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Awww. Got to love 'em.
A recent study published in in Applied Animal Behaviour Science, a journal published by the Dutch group Elsevier, found that small dogs, especially dachshunds, are likelier to attack strangers and other dogs compared with pitbulls, rottweilers and other macho breeds.
Dachshunds, chihuahuas and Jack Russell terriers were the worst offenders, while Brittany spaniels, greyhounds and whippets were the most docile.
So does this mean that hoodies should be buying a yorkie to try and prove their manhood?
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Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday.
Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing an old religious edict.
Mutt - awa. How very appropriate.
Full story here.
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