My schipperke mix gets just as excited when I come home after being away at the grocery 30 minutes. She has me trained to give her a rawhide chew to calm her down.
When my father returned from Europe, 1945, his dog Butch was able to figure out his impending arrival from more than a quarter of a mile away.
Then, upon entering the living room, my father sat down with his parents and brothers — in total silence — a word not having been said.
Butch just put his head in Dad’s lap — and it’s said the dog cried!
Certainly, that was the reaction of everyone there at that moment.
After all of the mayhem of D-Day — (one of the forlorn hope) all were astonished to see him in one piece – – having never suffered a battle wound — while all around him lay the fallen. (!)
The question is: how in heck can the video’d dog and Butch detect their masters through door and distance?
One of the great things about dogs is their love for their people.
My dog does this to me when I return from a 30 minute trip to the store.
blert:
I think they can smell them through the door, or recognize their footsteps.
The longer distance situation is another phenomenon entirely, one that has been documented and researched. See this.
Very sweet!
Hi blert,
Don’t know if he had a dog, but I ran across this tidbit in a biography of my wife’s paternal Great-great Grandfather:
In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry, as a private, and served until June, 1865, meantime taking part in a number of noted battles and accompanying Sherman on his march to the sea. In spite of his long and active service he was neither wounded nor taken prisoner.
Also like this bit from the same source:
His character was that of a typical Scotchman, strictly honest, industrious and thrifty, and in religion he was a Presbyterian.
Descriptions were more restrained then 😉
Some dogs have a connection to their human that defies reason. My little dog knows when I am approaching the house (quietly) from 100 feet away. She is able to read my mood better than my wife of 44 years, and my sweetheart knows my mind/mood very well. Its a mysterious connection between human and canine that never ceases to amaze me. However, not all dogs or humans are equal.
Dogs v. Cats
I had a similar dog, Beaumont, whom I often left with my parents for weeks or months. He reacted like this every time, when I returned for him. Contrast with my girlfriend’s cat Trixie, who, for seven years, I regularly fed and she seemed to enjoy lying on my warm chest, in bed. After we broke up and I came over for a visit, Trixie only expressed mild curiosity.
A good movie along these lines is ‘Hachi’ starring Richard Gere. Apparently it is based on a true story from Japan.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your [our modern] philosophy.” William Shakespeare
Q: “Are you a cat person or a dog person?”
A: “I like both. But I brake for dogs.”
Neo-
That video made me cry…a dog’s display of it’s love for it’s master can be so powerful…I suspect they can detect degrees of goodness in their master(s)…and this guy must have been one heckuva good person
Sweet! that was adorable.
My two cats, Perkins and Georgia, used to hang out on top of my window air conditioner on 14th Street in NYC, the fifth floor. One day when I was walking home along the sidewalk far below, I looked up (there were a lot of people on the sidewalk), and the two little goobers were watching me approach.
How did they pick me out of the crowd from up high? Had to be by sight.
We are no where close to understanding existence.
The bizarre and odd thing about Leftists and Islam is their shallow certainty we do.
The effective and beneficial things we are given to understand (for what ever reason) are truth, objectivity, personal modesty, and compassion.
In the reality of certain necessities (such as the corruption of categorically unavoidable government) we cannot avoid paradox. Paradox is the intellectual, spiritual and practical truth which confuses actual life.
I went to a home show today where Mennonites? Amish? sold their wares in the simplicity of their being. You would have to see it to get it. Or were they fake? Personally, I don’t think so.
The loveability of human beings is there for the seeing.
Even ourselves.
Second only to the game of baseball, dogs are the Creator’s best work. Loving and faithful companions, always.
The daily Mail piece linked by Neo is documentation, but is not to be dignified as “research.”
The relationship twixt man and dog is really quite wonderful and amazing. It is worthy of more investigation than SETI.
Dogs have been socialized with man for what, 20,000 years now?
Their brains are so much more dedicated to olfaction and scents than ours;bad smells don’t offend; their hearing is way more acute at high frequencies we can’t hear(as everyone knows) and possibly at sub-woofer low frequencies also. My dogs sense thunder long before I can hear it, and head for shelter before there is any change I can see in the cloud over.
Dogs understand teamwork, both in feral packs and in company of man; and, of course almost all dogs are blessed with devotion.
And Neo, they run on their toes. Natural ballerinas!
They have a sense of time, maybe linked in with biorhythms.
Dogs also have remarkable degrees of patience, and of serenity. My great Rhodesian Ridgeback male, 125 lbs, a devoted protector, developed a cervical spinal cord tumor which made him paraplegic despite surgery and radiation. He spent his last weeks on a mattress, was lifted up with a belly band to pee and poop, and was serene, grateful for our affectionate attention, never impatient with or frustrated by his infirmity or our failure to get something done right. He always felt as one of us.I remember cracking pecans for him in my workshop as an evening “bonding”, and with a week he was picking up and crackin his own pecans under the tree! My French Brittany (for hunting woodcock) studies squirrels high up in oak trees for hours, immobilized.Their eyesight’s pretty fair too. They understand success and failure When I miss a wookcock flushed off her point, my Meg looks back at me over her shoulder, still on point, with a sardonic look.
Think if women were more like dogs! No endless repetitious chatter,no outrageous material wants, stacked up RoundToIts, and a treat is a treat,gratefully received.
Dogs are wonderful creatures.
Dogs and cats each have their place in our universe. I have lived with and loved both.
For the poster who wrote, “but I brake for dogs”; the implication was clear. Very cute. Not sure that I would brake for anyone who did not brake for a cat.
Super sweet! We have 3 dogs and they are always excited in their own ways when we come home. However, they are most excited to see my husband each time. Today my husband is getting ready to leave for extended business in the NY, CT, DE, PA area. He is an insurance adjuster and is being sent to help with all the water damage claims in the northeast that come from ice dams and other water leakage. He will likely be gone for several months. Our 3 dogs are following him around the house this morning as he packs and al all visibly pouting. They know he is leaving for a long time and are definitely letting us know that they do not like it.
Matthew M and Oldflyer;
Yep, I’ll brake for dogs AND cats; not too sure that I’ll break for cars with Obama stickers any more. Luckily, I don’t see any of those in my neighborhood.
It all depends on the dog.
The beagle we have now acts like that when I return from taking out the garbage. On the other hand, when our son returned after a year in Afghanistan the Lab we had then wagged her tail but didn’t bother to get up.
Dogs have a soul.
What I’ve never understood about the dog breeding community is why they have never worked on breeding long lived dogs. The longest lived don’t typically last more than 20 years. People would pay big money for a dog that lives 30 to 40 years.
Harold,
Sometimes you just can’t fight biology. Besides, the breeders would have to be mating dogs at the ends of their lives, since living long is your object. If you breed them at 12 and they die at 14, how have you selected for longevity? Critters and humans don’t come with use-by dates.
Smaller dogs live longer than big ones.
For a longer-lived pet, get an elephant.
Parrots live as long as elephants do.
Dogs however are the only domesticated animals that have a preternatural connection to humans.
You don’t have to breed at end of life. You breed lines. It takes many generations and much data but it can be done.
Chris: “On the other hand, when our son returned after a year in Afghanistan the Lab we had then wagged her tail but didn’t bother to get up”
It sounds like your dog might have arthritis or something. We had a older dog like that; when younger she was very happy jumping all around and on top of people. She’d gladly knock you over and think it was the natural way to react.
But, the last few years of her life she was content to lift her head up, get all bright eyed, and wag her tail. But, she wouldn’t get up or move from her rug because of her arthritis.
It really doesn’t surprise me that there are so many dog videos on Youtube. Dogs (says this cat and dog lover) are Man’s best friend. Ha, another reason not to trust some folks in the Muslim world since they don’t trust dogs.
Charles: Actually you’re exactly right, she was 14 at the time and was having a difficult time getting around.
We were all worried that she wouldn’t make it to the end of our son’s tour since they were best buddies, and we were overjoyed that she was still there to great him when he came home.
She was the best dog we’ve ever had and we still miss her.
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My schipperke mix gets just as excited when I come home after being away at the grocery 30 minutes. She has me trained to give her a rawhide chew to calm her down.
When my father returned from Europe, 1945, his dog Butch was able to figure out his impending arrival from more than a quarter of a mile away.
Then, upon entering the living room, my father sat down with his parents and brothers — in total silence — a word not having been said.
Butch just put his head in Dad’s lap — and it’s said the dog cried!
Certainly, that was the reaction of everyone there at that moment.
After all of the mayhem of D-Day — (one of the forlorn hope) all were astonished to see him in one piece – – having never suffered a battle wound — while all around him lay the fallen. (!)
The question is: how in heck can the video’d dog and Butch detect their masters through door and distance?
One of the great things about dogs is their love for their people.
My dog does this to me when I return from a 30 minute trip to the store.
blert:
I think they can smell them through the door, or recognize their footsteps.
The longer distance situation is another phenomenon entirely, one that has been documented and researched. See this.
Very sweet!
Hi blert,
Don’t know if he had a dog, but I ran across this tidbit in a biography of my wife’s paternal Great-great Grandfather:
In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry, as a private, and served until June, 1865, meantime taking part in a number of noted battles and accompanying Sherman on his march to the sea. In spite of his long and active service he was neither wounded nor taken prisoner.
Also like this bit from the same source:
His character was that of a typical Scotchman, strictly honest, industrious and thrifty, and in religion he was a Presbyterian.
Descriptions were more restrained then 😉
Some dogs have a connection to their human that defies reason. My little dog knows when I am approaching the house (quietly) from 100 feet away. She is able to read my mood better than my wife of 44 years, and my sweetheart knows my mind/mood very well. Its a mysterious connection between human and canine that never ceases to amaze me. However, not all dogs or humans are equal.
Dogs v. Cats
I had a similar dog, Beaumont, whom I often left with my parents for weeks or months. He reacted like this every time, when I returned for him. Contrast with my girlfriend’s cat Trixie, who, for seven years, I regularly fed and she seemed to enjoy lying on my warm chest, in bed. After we broke up and I came over for a visit, Trixie only expressed mild curiosity.
A good movie along these lines is ‘Hachi’ starring Richard Gere. Apparently it is based on a true story from Japan.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your[our modern] philosophy.” William ShakespeareQ: “Are you a cat person or a dog person?”
A: “I like both. But I brake for dogs.”
Neo-
That video made me cry…a dog’s display of it’s love for it’s master can be so powerful…I suspect they can detect degrees of goodness in their master(s)…and this guy must have been one heckuva good person
Sweet! that was adorable.
My two cats, Perkins and Georgia, used to hang out on top of my window air conditioner on 14th Street in NYC, the fifth floor. One day when I was walking home along the sidewalk far below, I looked up (there were a lot of people on the sidewalk), and the two little goobers were watching me approach.
How did they pick me out of the crowd from up high? Had to be by sight.
We are no where close to understanding existence.
The bizarre and odd thing about Leftists and Islam is their shallow certainty we do.
The effective and beneficial things we are given to understand (for what ever reason) are truth, objectivity, personal modesty, and compassion.
In the reality of certain necessities (such as the corruption of categorically unavoidable government) we cannot avoid paradox. Paradox is the intellectual, spiritual and practical truth which confuses actual life.
I went to a home show today where Mennonites? Amish? sold their wares in the simplicity of their being. You would have to see it to get it. Or were they fake? Personally, I don’t think so.
The loveability of human beings is there for the seeing.
Even ourselves.
Second only to the game of baseball, dogs are the Creator’s best work. Loving and faithful companions, always.
The daily Mail piece linked by Neo is documentation, but is not to be dignified as “research.”
The relationship twixt man and dog is really quite wonderful and amazing. It is worthy of more investigation than SETI.
Dogs have been socialized with man for what, 20,000 years now?
Their brains are so much more dedicated to olfaction and scents than ours;bad smells don’t offend; their hearing is way more acute at high frequencies we can’t hear(as everyone knows) and possibly at sub-woofer low frequencies also. My dogs sense thunder long before I can hear it, and head for shelter before there is any change I can see in the cloud over.
Dogs understand teamwork, both in feral packs and in company of man; and, of course almost all dogs are blessed with devotion.
And Neo, they run on their toes. Natural ballerinas!
They have a sense of time, maybe linked in with biorhythms.
Dogs also have remarkable degrees of patience, and of serenity. My great Rhodesian Ridgeback male, 125 lbs, a devoted protector, developed a cervical spinal cord tumor which made him paraplegic despite surgery and radiation. He spent his last weeks on a mattress, was lifted up with a belly band to pee and poop, and was serene, grateful for our affectionate attention, never impatient with or frustrated by his infirmity or our failure to get something done right. He always felt as one of us.I remember cracking pecans for him in my workshop as an evening “bonding”, and with a week he was picking up and crackin his own pecans under the tree! My French Brittany (for hunting woodcock) studies squirrels high up in oak trees for hours, immobilized.Their eyesight’s pretty fair too. They understand success and failure When I miss a wookcock flushed off her point, my Meg looks back at me over her shoulder, still on point, with a sardonic look.
Think if women were more like dogs! No endless repetitious chatter,no outrageous material wants, stacked up RoundToIts, and a treat is a treat,gratefully received.
Dogs are wonderful creatures.
Dogs and cats each have their place in our universe. I have lived with and loved both.
For the poster who wrote, “but I brake for dogs”; the implication was clear. Very cute. Not sure that I would brake for anyone who did not brake for a cat.
Super sweet! We have 3 dogs and they are always excited in their own ways when we come home. However, they are most excited to see my husband each time. Today my husband is getting ready to leave for extended business in the NY, CT, DE, PA area. He is an insurance adjuster and is being sent to help with all the water damage claims in the northeast that come from ice dams and other water leakage. He will likely be gone for several months. Our 3 dogs are following him around the house this morning as he packs and al all visibly pouting. They know he is leaving for a long time and are definitely letting us know that they do not like it.
Matthew M and Oldflyer;
Yep, I’ll brake for dogs AND cats; not too sure that I’ll break for cars with Obama stickers any more. Luckily, I don’t see any of those in my neighborhood.
It all depends on the dog.
The beagle we have now acts like that when I return from taking out the garbage. On the other hand, when our son returned after a year in Afghanistan the Lab we had then wagged her tail but didn’t bother to get up.
Dogs have a soul.
What I’ve never understood about the dog breeding community is why they have never worked on breeding long lived dogs. The longest lived don’t typically last more than 20 years. People would pay big money for a dog that lives 30 to 40 years.
Harold,
Sometimes you just can’t fight biology. Besides, the breeders would have to be mating dogs at the ends of their lives, since living long is your object. If you breed them at 12 and they die at 14, how have you selected for longevity? Critters and humans don’t come with use-by dates.
Smaller dogs live longer than big ones.
For a longer-lived pet, get an elephant.
Parrots live as long as elephants do.
Dogs however are the only domesticated animals that have a preternatural connection to humans.
You don’t have to breed at end of life. You breed lines. It takes many generations and much data but it can be done.
Dog’s diary vs. cat’s diary:
http://i.imgur.com/p3JVL.jpg
How the two conceive of their relationship with humans:
http://funnyanimalphoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/dog_cat_funny_photo-660×808.jpg?bd03d3
Chris: “On the other hand, when our son returned after a year in Afghanistan the Lab we had then wagged her tail but didn’t bother to get up”
It sounds like your dog might have arthritis or something. We had a older dog like that; when younger she was very happy jumping all around and on top of people. She’d gladly knock you over and think it was the natural way to react.
But, the last few years of her life she was content to lift her head up, get all bright eyed, and wag her tail. But, she wouldn’t get up or move from her rug because of her arthritis.
It really doesn’t surprise me that there are so many dog videos on Youtube. Dogs (says this cat and dog lover) are Man’s best friend. Ha, another reason not to trust some folks in the Muslim world since they don’t trust dogs.
Charles: Actually you’re exactly right, she was 14 at the time and was having a difficult time getting around.
We were all worried that she wouldn’t make it to the end of our son’s tour since they were best buddies, and we were overjoyed that she was still there to great him when he came home.
She was the best dog we’ve ever had and we still miss her.