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Topic Started: May 28 2006, 11:17 AM (2,790 Views)
Callista	May 28 2006, 11:17 AM Post #1
Missions Expert Posts: 2,323 Group: Adult Members Member #3 Joined: January 19, 2006	Thought I'd start a new topic to discuss our furry friends.... Yes, I mean our cats and dogs and other pets..... :D So I thought this would make a fine first topic.... Pet Oxygen masks Quote: Houston Fire Department Capt. Matt White has heard his share of fire victims beg rescuers to save their babies, only to have that "baby" turn out to be a beloved pet, unconscious or groggy from inhaling smoke. Despite using an ill-fitting oxygen mask made for people, White has managed to resuscitate some, including a disoriented Rottweiler that quickly became friendly with firefighters after receiving oxygen, a change in demeanor that surprised neighbors Now, White is hoping an oxygen mask designed for cats and dogs will improve the odds for pets. There are have been many incidents in the Houston area in recent months where they have used regular oxygen masks to revive pets. About the Rottweiler's change of attitude after being rescued.....even normally aggressive animals recognize what was done for them. Quote: The growing number of municipal fire departments with pet oxygen masks illustrates the change in how people view pets, animal welfare activists say. Some pet owners buy health insurance for their animals or include them in their wills. Perhaps nowhere was the idea of Fido and Fluffy as full-fledged family members more apparent than during the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, when some evacuees refused to board buses or enter shelters without their pets. Quote: Since 2004, Best Friends, a chain of kennels, has given more than 2,000 pet oxygen masks to fire departments across the country. This organization and other are trying to raise money to provide more pet oxygen masks so that every fire truck can have one.
	To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you "Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much"--Oscar Wilde


Linne52	May 28 2006, 11:27 PM Post #2
Missions Expert Posts: 3,183 Group: Adult Members Member #18 Joined: February 3, 2006	I Love this. I watch a show called Animal Rescue & have seen many rescued that way . I'd only seen the masks in footage about Animal Hospitals . I am glad to know there is a project in place to help get these where they are needed . I have a lovely picture on my computer of a Firefighter being licked on the face by a pregnant Doberman he rescued . He had been scared of Dobies but he grabbed her & she showed her thanks by slurping off some of the soot . It makes me want to cry even thinking abou it .



Mark	Jun 5 2006, 09:20 PM Post #3
Chief Administrator Posts: 2,065 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: October 28, 2005	Mark: I found a real cutie-pie! :duh: No, not the brunette! :lol: Posted Image
	*Mark* Some people give and forgive;others get and forget. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. Happiness consists in activity--it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. The way to be happy is to make others happy. The best gifts are tied with heartstrings.


Callista	Jun 7 2006, 04:32 AM Post #4
Missions Expert Posts: 2,323 Group: Adult Members Member #3 Joined: January 19, 2006	Miss Fluff, the kitty...or as she prefers to be addressed, Queen Fluff :rolleyes: has decided to be an outside kitty. Completely on her own. Most of her days are now spent draped over the front porch railing (in a rather precarious way, but so far she hasn't fallen off--that I know of) or under the shrubs.
	To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you "Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much"--Oscar Wilde


Linne52	Jun 8 2006, 12:42 AM Post #5
Missions Expert Posts: 3,183 Group: Adult Members Member #18 Joined: February 3, 2006	What a cute little fuzzy britches.No not the brunette . Our male cat Fluffy resides in Mom's bedroom now . He can but doesn't move around much anymore ,but when he wants his water which is usually away from him,he points at it with one front paw or he will point when he sees Us drinking & we know we had better get him some . I sit on a chair next to where the water is so he will also jump on me to get his drink then jump back off me onto His Chair or Mom's bed or sometime just back onto me for a cuddle . He got his name the old fashioned way. He looks & feels very soft . I love to snooze with him under my chin sitting in the chair .He is also the only cat we have who I'm so allergic to I have to take antihistamine to keep my eyes from watering all over him .



Linne52	Jun 10 2006, 03:30 AM Post #6
Missions Expert Posts: 3,183 Group: Adult Members Member #18 Joined: February 3, 2006	I am watching Animal Rescue while I do my email & they just fixed up a 23 foot python with abcessed teeth. I think it was Inside Edition that had a story about a guy walking a Hollywood Dog of his[a Jack Russell terrier who has done movies & ads]poochie went down a roadbank after squirrel ."Dad" chased him & the roadbank gave way, he had to hang on for dear life till Firefighters Rescued Him . A Dear Lady had snatched the pooch by the scruff if his neck out of traffic in the Highway he ran into & took him to vet for checking .They read his tags & "Dad" & Dog were soon reunited with rescuer too. Yes I'm a sucker for Happy Ending ."Dad" got a few bumps & bruises , the scare he deserved & a Resolution to Use his Leash !



Callista	Jun 10 2006, 06:42 AM Post #7
Missions Expert Posts: 2,323 Group: Adult Members Member #3 Joined: January 19, 2006	Not exactly a pet thing but they had a show on Animal Planet last night that I intend to catch future episodes of as well as the re-air of this episode. Called Meerkats and all about those critters. I've read the reviews and they say it is fascinating to watch them. Twas intending to watch it last night but I've never seen Runaway Jury before as I knew they changed a lot of the main story from the book. Anyhoo....Buddy the dog has decided that now he is allowed in the house during the heat of the day....(97 today)....that the floor is not good enough. I've caught him sprawled out on the couch---on his back, feet in the air---and he made himself comfortable in my bed...at least twice I've caught him there. Wondering if he might have been allowed in the house as a puppy (since he was a stray)....and spoiled rotten back then. Or if he has just always been a stray and outside dog who knows how to take advantage of the opportunity to sleep in comfort
	To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you "Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much"--Oscar Wilde


Linne52	Jun 10 2006, 09:39 PM Post #8
Missions Expert Posts: 3,183 Group: Adult Members Member #18 Joined: February 3, 2006	Shorty sprawls on Mom's bed too usually after we come back from shopping I chase him off & make her bed again. She Has caught him & didn't know wheter to laugh or want to smack his rump. I am sitting in here with Thomas Gray cat behind me on my chair .TJ on the tray box on top of the monitor,Weaver on the tray box on the Old monitor & Shorty on the floor in one of his plastic stacking box beds .



Starshipp	Jun 11 2006, 09:21 PM Post #9
Astronaut Candidate Posts: 498 Group: Adult Members Member #8 Joined: January 27, 2006	Wow oxygen masks! What a great idea! We watched Nature on the local PBS channel tonight and it was all about the rescues of pets after Katrina. At the end, the feds had learned not to turn pets away during Rita when folks were evacuating because of the disasters of refusing pets during Katrina. Least SOMETHING good came of it! <_<
	Everything I ever needed to know I learned from Star Trek


Mark	Jun 11 2006, 10:50 PM Post #10
Chief Administrator Posts: 2,065 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: October 28, 2005	Mark: I learned how to perform CPR on my dog after I'd learned of his heart condition. The morning he passed, I used a bit of that knowledge, and his head went from a laying down, non-moving position, to moving quickly up...like he was startled. He quickly layed his head back down as the fresh blood I'd supplied via CPR, from his heart to his brain, subsided. :crybaby: I decided making him endure another day of heart malfunctioning wasn't worth it. Animal CPR is great, just make sure you use it at the right time.
	*Mark* Some people give and forgive;others get and forget. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. Happiness consists in activity--it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. The way to be happy is to make others happy. The best gifts are tied with heartstrings.


Linne52	Jun 11 2006, 11:59 PM Post #11
Missions Expert Posts: 3,183 Group: Adult Members Member #18 Joined: February 3, 2006	Mark: My little fellow who looks very similar has crashed a couple of times . It scared me badly . I picked him up & jostled him a bit & he came back . I have saved a couple of mine with the Heimlich Maneuver .



Mark	Jun 12 2006, 12:28 AM Post #12
Chief Administrator Posts: 2,065 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: October 28, 2005	Linne52 Jun 12 2006, 01:59 AM Mark: My little fellow who looks very similar has crashed a couple of times . It scared me badly . I picked him up & jostled him a bit & he came back . I have saved a couple of mine with the Heimlich Maneuver . Mark: Yeah, I've actually put my finger in "the lion's mouth", so-to-speak. Twas a precarious feat. :eek: EW, I forgot! Don't say "feat", or anything sounding like that word around, Callista, right now. :unsure:
	*Mark* Some people give and forgive;others get and forget. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. Happiness consists in activity--it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. The way to be happy is to make others happy. The best gifts are tied with heartstrings.


Linne52	Jun 12 2006, 02:27 AM Post #13
Missions Expert Posts: 3,183 Group: Adult Members Member #18 Joined: February 3, 2006	You want the Lions Mouth,deliver a breech kitten from a Mama cat who is Not Happy ,understandably . But yes I've fetched choking things out of their mouths & if you want them to drop something from their mouth,pinch the sides of their jaws & they will likely drop whatever or whoever ,it is . Just use both index fingers & jab in the sides of their jaws ,reasonably gently . I rescued a little pooch from a big one by jabbing it's jaw from a distancewith a metal pole .The little pooch got away safely.



Starshipp	Jun 12 2006, 07:40 AM Post #14
Astronaut Candidate Posts: 498 Group: Adult Members Member #8 Joined: January 27, 2006	What a cuuuuuuuuuuuuute doggie Mark! Sorry he's gone. Did you get another one? I'm not looking forward to my babies end of life. They are 9 years old right now, so we ought to get a few more years out of them, but my heart and guts will be ripped out when they go. I imagine losing yours was tough. :crybaby:
	Everything I ever needed to know I learned from Star Trek


Mark	Jun 12 2006, 08:32 AM Post #15
Chief Administrator Posts: 2,065 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: October 28, 2005	Starshipp Jun 12 2006, 09:40 AM What a cuuuuuuuuuuuuute doggie Mark! Sorry he's gone. Did you get another one? I'm not looking forward to my babies end of life. They are 9 years old right now, so we ought to get a few more years out of them, but my heart and guts will be ripped out when they go. I imagine losing yours was tough. :crybaby: Mark: I'll never get over the loss of my pets. :(
	*Mark* Some people give and forgive;others get and forget. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. Happiness consists in activity--it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. The way to be happy is to make others happy. The best gifts are tied with heartstrings.


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