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Bruno Piccinelli, head of UCIS, Italy's association of rescue-dog trainers, says the breeds, which are innately strong in the water, are trained from puppyhood until they are at least two years old to make water rescues. Dogs have long been taught to respond to specific types of water accidents and other emergencies as well as to use their keen hearing and sense of smell to assist in search-and-rescue missions - canines were used to help find survivors in the rubble of the recent earthquake in L'Aquila, for example. But now some 70 pooches have been authorized...
...years) when he should have enjoyed the bounding prime of youth, a Utah beagle's muzzle was grey, his bones brittle, his joints creaky. Reason: since puppyhood, he had received regular injections of radioactive isotopes at the University of Utah's Beagleville (TIME, Dec. 27, 1954). Radiobiologists guessed that constant exposure to internal radiation somehow diminished the beagle's natural resistance to stress, accelerating the aging process. Further studies of radioactive beagles may provide clues to the nature of the aging process in man, suggest ways to impede...
Eskimos Too. The University of Oregon's Dr. Frederick P. Haugen reports that dogs raised from puppyhood in a solitary, restricted environment, so that they cannot hurt themselves or be hurt, do not act as though they feel pain when tested in early maturity. Even Sherrington's "imperative protective reflex" is missing-these animals have to learn to stay away from a hot stove, and it takes repeated burns to teach them. Dr. Haugen comments: "The influence of past experience and learning is evident in any group of patients as one observes the notable differences in their reactions...
...succor and save benighted travelers in the 8,111-ft. pass under Mt. Blanc's cold shoulder near the Franco-Swiss frontier. Weighing up to 200 Ib. in maturity, the St. Bernard dogs are noted for great strength, docility, intelligence, and an expression of almost idiotic benignity. From puppyhood, the dogs are taught to drag unconscious travelers as far as they can, then run & fetch the monks from the hospice. In times past the clogs actually carried around their necks the pictorially famed little kegs of brandy. Most illustrious of these lifesavers was Barry, who died while trying...
Flush was a red cocker spaniel of good breeding whose puppyhood was passed in the pleasant English countryside near Reading. Before he was out of his doggy teens he had tasted the pleasures of love and was a father. Then his owner, Miss Mitford, gave him to her invalid friend, Elizabeth Barrett. In his new mistress's home, on London's genteel Wimpole Street, Flush passed into polite and celibate seclusion. Though not by nature a lapdog, Flush sacrificed his roaming instincts and became a devoted stay-at-home, never stirring from Miss Barrett's room except...
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