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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 4:47 pm
you want sad and animals I'll give you a cruel idiot in Toronto this week who wanted to escape a traffic stop so he took a run at a mounted poiceman to get away - and yes he deliberately aimed at the horse. One of the poor policemen at the scene had to shoot the poor horse as it was screaming in pain from a badly broken leg (they checked with the vet before shooting him). They caught the idiot who did it but what can they charge him with. So far they have him for a hit and run. I wish they would charge him with attempted murder of the policeman as there are no long sentences for the murder of a police horse  Brigadier gets heroes sendoff
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 4:55 pm
I don't even need to go to the link to get sad and angry at that one, Jan. What a sick person 
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 8:07 pm
thanks, everyone. Mr. Duck is still hanging out in the lagoon, by himself. He's not squawking anymore, though, at least. I know it's "nature," but it was really quite sad...
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 6:37 am
And dang it, I'm a dork! Totally forgot to upload the Mr Duck picture I have from the zoo! Someone remind me tonight!
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 10:27 am
Oh that's so awful about the poor duck. Is there some sort of cover or guard that could prevent this from happening again? Nature can be cruel. But many animals do develop close pair bonds - and that's not anthropomorphizing. Twice I witnessed what I can only describe as anguish in wild animals. For a few years a pair of mallards would return to my dad's yard from early spring to summer. I'd stop and put food out for them. The female would clamber into the large low water dish to splash about. I loved to watch that, and listen to their low, raspy talking as they wandered around. And then one terrible day my mom spotted the female struggling by the side of the road near a field a couple doors down from my dad's. I raced over and we discovered she had been hit by a car. The male was walking around her in a frenzy, quacking frantically. My mom and I took her to a wild bird clinic. I desperately hoped they could save her but they said she was too hurt and put her to sleep. It still upsets me to think about it. The male came back to my dad's yard and it was obvious he was searching for her. He wouldn't eat, just walked around and around the yard, calling for her. And then I once saw a groundhog lying in the middle of the road ahead. I saw the tail move - was it alive or a breeze from a passing car? - and pulled over. Only then did I notice two other groundhogs at the side of the road. One had the skin of other's back in its mouth and was pulling it away from the road. The other was desperately trying to break free and was looking right at the groundhog in the road. It was making this wrenching growling wail. And there were two more smaller groundhogs gathered a ways down the embankment from the road, watching intently. To me, it looked like a family and the one was trying to get to its (sadly dead) relative while the other was trying to keep it from going into traffic. I'm still shaken by that memory.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 10:53 am
Stories like this prove animals have feelings and hurt when one of their own die, and are frantic with worry when someone they love is hurt or lost. It makes me so sick when I hear someone say something like,'It was only an animal, they dont know any better or feel anything'. Animals deserve so much better.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 8:15 pm
They certainly do.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 8:25 am
I finally remembered to look for my Mr Duck photo while on my computer and here at TVCH. Here's Mr Duck, enjoying his life at the San Diego Zoo. Mr Duck is a freeloader, but the zoo let's him hang around. Maybe Yankee can convince Mr Canadian Duck to become Mr San Diego Duck?

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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 12:12 pm

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Slinkydog
Member
11-30-2005
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 4:08 pm
Sweet Sheba went on over the Rainbow Bridge this afternoon, where she will join her babies that preceded her in death: Fuzzy, Mocha and Sandy, and her step-siblings, Alex and Cocoa. She is survived by her babies Bobby and Roxy, her step siblings Rock and Shadow, and her human mamas.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 4:12 pm
Dear Slinky, I am so sad for you, but happy she is now free from misery and pain. I'll bet her clan at the Rainbow Bridge was beside itself seeing their loved one once more.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 5:43 pm
\ ((((((Slinky))))))
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Baby
Member
01-08-2006
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 6:22 pm
Slinky (and all of those who have lost their little animal friends), sorry to hear about your loss! I know this must be really, really hard on you. I can't imagine what it would be like not to have Baby here with me. My thoughts and prayers are with you!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 6:59 pm
Thinking about you Slinky.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 7:00 pm
I know you will miss her. My thoughts are with you.
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 9:35 pm
{{{Slinky}}}
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 10:03 pm
Shedding tears for Sweet Sheba and Slinky 
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, March 24, 2006 - 3:06 am
Aww, Slinky. I am so sorry, hon. Encircling your heart with comforting thoughts and hoping the good memories you have of Sheba soon dance in your head.
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Slinkydog
Member
11-30-2005
| Friday, March 24, 2006 - 4:58 am
Thanks, everyone.
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Mags
Member
06-26-2001
| Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:05 pm
My baby, Tigger, went over the Rainbow Bridge on Thursday too. Her sister, Cricket, is really missing her right now...and so am I. Slinky, I am so sorry for your loss. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:11 pm
Mags, I am so sorry for your losses.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:37 pm
{{{Mags and Cricket}}}
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, March 24, 2006 - 11:55 pm
(((Mags))) Sorry for the loss of your pet.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 12:00 am
Oh, Mags. I am so sorry, hon. Breaks my heart to think of your pain--and Cricket's, as well.
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Slinkydog
Member
11-30-2005
| Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 6:06 am
Mags, I'm sorry for your loss, too. All of my dogs that are over the Rainbow Bridge like kitties, so Tigger will be well loved.
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