Dog mourns at casket of fallen NAVY SEAL

[TER]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44271018/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/?GT1=43001

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029688/Navy-SEAL-Jon-Tumilsons-dog-sits-coffin-funeral.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/24/article-2029688-0D8E847600000578-726_634x659.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/24/article-2029688-0D8E7CFE00000578-81_634x348.jpg

[aGameOfThrones]

Just made same post :)

[Bruno]

Touching, patriotic, let's go kill more bad guys so dogs don't have to mourn.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

My favorite Dog story ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

I have a few pictures of me standing next to this dog's statue.

[TER]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPx2Wnc0lI&feature=player_embedded#!

[Bruno]

My favorite Dog story ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

I have a few pictures of me standing next to this dog's statue.

My wife and I have been to this monument in Antwerp, Belgium, of A Dog Flanders.

http://i52.tinypic.com/14bne4w.jpg

[LibertyEagle]

That is so very sad. :(

[Dr.3D]

Darn it... I'm crying again. I just lost my 12 year old Doberman and am still trying to get over it.

[angelatc]

Darn it... I'm crying again. I just lost my 12 year old Doberman and am still trying to get over it.

So sorry for your loss. :( Where did you get him?


There's a statue of a dog in Japan, too. Here's the Wikipedia entry:


In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō as a pet. During his owner's life, Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never returning to the train station where Hachikō was waiting. Every day for the next nine years the golden brown Akita waited at Shibuya station.

[surf]

save the dogs!

[Anti Federalist]

Tombstone of Boatswain, Lord Bryon's Newfie dog.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_7ccF3pZ0-9s/SpU1Ww2IfII/AAAAAAAAARw/E4VS02FhuhQ/s320/Summer2009+037.jpg

http://www.dog-names-and-more.com/images/Newfoundland-Dog-Picture.jpg

[Bruno]

Darn it... I'm crying again. I just lost my 12 year old Doberman and am still trying to get over it.

Real sorry to hear that. :(

[Rael]

Darn it... I'm crying again. I just lost my 12 year old Doberman and am still trying to get over it.

Real sorry to hear that =( I have a Doberman. He's my best buddy.

[fisharmor]

Now someone needs to photoshop a cop with a pistol pointed at the dog, and we'll have a complete picture of what he died for.

[Rael]

It doesn't seem apparent to me that the dog is "mourning"; he appears to be simply laying down.

[Dr.3D]

Real sorry to hear that =( I have a Doberman. He's my best buddy.

Thanks.... he was my best buddy too. Here is what he looked like when I brought home another Doberman puppy seven years ago. She (the puppy) has helped me feel a little better about my loss.
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/DrThreeDee/Sniffing-1.jpg

[TER]

It doesn't seem apparent to me that the dog is "mourning"; he appears to be simply laying down.

From the article: "Hawkeye walked up to the casket at the beginning of the service and then dropped down with a heaving sigh as about 1,500 mourners witnessed a dog accompanying his master until the end, reported CBS."

[Rael]

From the article: "Hawkeye walked up to the casket at the beginning of the service and then dropped down with a heaving sigh as about 1,500 mourners witnessed a dog accompanying his master until the end, reported CBS."

My dog lays down with a great big sigh about 15 times a day. I think people want to believe the dog is mourning, so that is what they have decided to see.

[Rael]

Thanks.... he was my best buddy too. Here is what he looked like when I brought home another Doberman puppy seven years ago. She (the puppy) has helped me feel a little better about my loss.
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg202/DrThreeDee/Sniffing-1.jpg

Aww. My dogs ears are not cropped either. He's a red dobie though. I'm glad you have the pup around.

[Dr.3D]

Aww. My dogs ears are not cropped either. He's a red dobie though. I'm glad you have the pup around.

My buddy used to smile too. I couldn't get a picture of him doing it, because he would only do it for a very short time. I did however find a video of another Doberman doing it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmu9hUUwGYo&feature=related

Often people mistake the smile for viciousness and I believe that is why Dobermans have such a bad rap.

[angelatc]

It doesn't seem apparent to me that the dog is "mourning"; he appears to be simply laying down.

I thought the same thing. Dogs and cool tile floors - that's what they do. How would the dog know that the guy is in the box? Maybe smell, but after the embalming process would it still be the same?

[Dr.3D]

So sorry for your loss. :( Where did you get him?


There's a statue of a dog in Japan, too. Here's the Wikipedia entry:

I bought him from a lady when he was just a little puppy.

[ItsTime]

I thought the same thing. Dogs and cool tile floors - that's what they do. How would the dog know that the guy is in the box? Maybe smell, but after the embalming process would it still be the same?

That is what I was thinking and another thing I was thinking, why was the dog there?

[anaconda]

Maybe it was sniffing for heroin transported in the casket.

[purplechoe]

That's such a sad story. And some people are surprised that we think of our dogs as family members.

[Rael]

My buddy used to smile too. I couldn't get a picture of him doing it, because he would only do it for a very short time. I did however find a video of another Doberman doing it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmu9hUUwGYo&feature=related

Often people mistake the smile for viciousness and I believe that is why Dobermans have such a bad rap.

LOL wow, my Dobie has never done that.

[Vessol]

So sad :(

[Agorism]

He looks like he's growling his teeth at someone rather than smiling.

[BlackTerrel]

This was all over Facebook.

I didn't cry but some dust did get in my eye.

[Dr.3D]

He looks like he's growling his teeth at someone rather than smiling.

LOL, when I see some people smile, I think the same thing.

The former speaker of the house is one of them. :D