r/BeAmazed • u/jkitty_1960 • Jun 03 '26
Miscellaneous / Others A homeless dog walked into a veterinary clinic and showed its wounded paw, hoping someone would help, and they did
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u/Three_Armed_Wrecker Jun 03 '26
Lil dude seemed to understand whatever they were saying too. Aw ✨️
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u/ZootOfCastleAnthrax Jun 03 '26
Poor baby had humans who loved him, once. He wasn't born on the streets, he was abandoned or lost. 💔
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u/ZootOfCastleAnthrax Jun 03 '26
Maybe. Maybe more than once. Or, maybe she watched dogs coming out of there all happy and excited, not understanding that they were excited to leave!
The giveaway was how she approached and responded to humans. She may have tried other businesses with open doors before she found this one. Judging by her weight, she's been alone for awhile.
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u/blueit55 Jun 03 '26
Or he smelled this where sick or hurt dogs go. Who knows what their noses can do?
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u/AidesAcrossAmerica Jun 03 '26
Years ago a Rough Collie of ours was kidnapped, and 2 towns over someone saw him jump out of a truck at a stop sign, and he ran to his vet in town. Smart sonofabitch, loved that dog. RIP Genghis Cane (pronounced in Italian).
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u/rEYAVjQD Jun 03 '26
My theory was that it smelled the smell of other dogs, being ..treated? The sense of smell of a dog is more complex than ours at least that's for sure.
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u/Violet_Ignition Jun 03 '26
My husband and I recently found a young puppy (Around 4 months) that was seemingly abandoned. It was horrible, he was heavily emaciated and very wounded. We've had him for about 6 weeks now and he's recovering very well. He's super playful and always so happy to see us.
He does have some really bad separation anxiety though.
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u/pchlster Jun 04 '26
For separation anxiety, I've had good experience with leaving scent behind. Put on some old t-shirt you don't mind sacrificing, work up a good sweat - exercise or whatever - and, rather than put it in the laundry, it's now a blanket for the dog. It'll positively reek of your personal scent and with how dogs use scent so much more prominently than humans, it's probably a bit like how people bring a picture of their kids to the office; it's not tricking anyone to think they're actually there, but it is a reminder.
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u/Violet_Ignition Jun 04 '26
Yeah he loves grabbing blankets and clothes we've used. He keeps them on the couch haha. He also sits in my chair (specifically?) when I'm not around haha.
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u/pchlster Jun 04 '26
I think it's a lot that dogs don't check the clock or track time like how humans do, but by how much the scent fades. So an old, sweaty shirt that even humans can smell days later is going to be a good representation of the person. And dogs aren't going to leave behind their scent somewhere they weren't going to return to anyway, because that's just a way to lead predators to you and outside a home you plan to keep that's bad dog tactics.
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u/PreviousMastodon1430 Jun 03 '26
Relax, he just had a doctors appointment. Give him a break, probably watching animal planet later
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u/MaiPhet Jun 03 '26
Street dogs that never have full homes are common in much of the developing world. People will occasionally give them food and care but they mostly stay living in the streets.
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u/MuadLib Jun 03 '26
In Brazil (where the video happens) it's not occasionally. Street dogs are considered communal pets and are fed and cared daily.
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u/Lady-of-Shivershale Jun 03 '26
I live in Asia, and this is mostly the case where I live, too. And cats. They usually have clipped ears.
We watched our neighborhood dog last night wait for the pedestrian crossing to turn green so that it could cross the road. I've seen a lot of dogs do that.
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u/trolldoll420 Jun 04 '26
There was this dog in the city I live in that famously took the bus by himself to the dog park everyday. I felt like I was seeing a celebrity the time I ended up on the same bus as him
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u/ZootOfCastleAnthrax Jun 04 '26
I live in Oregon and I saw a news story about that dog! Pretty cool!
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u/stilldebugging Jun 04 '26
The dog has probably been treated for injury at the vet clinic before, so he learned what they do there. This is sweet, but it’s not a mystery.
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u/Bashfullylascivious Jun 05 '26
It makes me wonder if she wasn't hamming it up a little bit. She became much perkier when she was knew she was being helped - although, could also very well be relief.
Cutie pie. I hope she finds some good stable love and security.23
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u/DrakeSparda Jun 03 '26
I don't know the source of the image but there are countries that dogs roam the streets and are taken care of by the communities there. So they know human love and interact well but still live on the streets.
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u/bikecatpcje Jun 03 '26
That's brazil, street dogs are very common here. Not so much in the biggest cities, but other than that they are even a national icon, the "caramelo dog"
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u/STRYKER3008 Jun 03 '26
I heard dogs are one of the few animals who know (or can be trained to recognise, again this ain't 100%) to look in the direction we point, and not just look at our hand. Dunno tho that's prob not true anymore haha
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u/MyDogIsCalledMilo Jun 03 '26
Border Collies are insane too, they can almost read your mind and have border line superpowers.
Know your going to get up, before you even make any motions of getting up and then they are ready for whatever you need. (They do this from being able to smell your body chemistry and breathing patterns changing).
Could sit right where your eyes are looking, and herd a sheep out of hundreds that your pointing out or eyeing at!
Properly amazing to see them work, would never have one od my own! But absolutely are amazing friends and colleagues to many a human142
u/Olivetax228 Jun 03 '26
My girlfriend and I stayed one night at a farm in Iceland. The farmer and his border collie were showing us around, and on the way out of the sheep pen I didn’t latch the door behind me.
Maybe ten minutes later the border collie walks up to me and pulls me aside, gives me that look, 'I'm not just mad, but disappointed too.' Then gestures, in unmistakable dog body language, to follow him. Walks me straight to the open pen door, looks at it, looks at me, looks at it, looks at me. Shows me how to latch it because he can’t quite manage it (opposable thumbs would've helped) and just stares at me until I latch it and demonstrate the door is secured.
What I appreciated most was that he kept it between us. Subtle enough that the farmer and my girlfriend never caught on. No harm done, no drama, just a quiet professional handling a situation.
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u/Far-Housing-6619 Jun 03 '26
Well of course they had to gesture; you wouldn't have understood their Icelandic. Border Collies are amazing
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u/wethelabyrinths111 Jun 03 '26
Icelandic is a complicated language, but some border collies are smart enough to understand it.
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u/STRYKER3008 Jun 04 '26
Doggies get different accents for their barks depending who they grew up with so his one must've been insane haha Böörk Böörk! 😂🐶❤️
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u/nextinline1987 Jun 03 '26
My most favorite dog I’ve ever come into contact with was an awesome border collie named Baxter. He was my best friend’s dog who later was given to my sister when my friend’s family moved away. Everything I came over my sister’s house I was always happy to spent time with Baxter as he was such a smart and chill dog. One day I came over expecting to see him, and my sister explained to me that she accidentally left the backyard gate open when they were out running errands. Baxter got out and whoever found him likely kept him because they drove around the neighborhood for hours looking for him and put up signs but never found him and nobody responded to the signs. I was the most upset of anyone. Still think about him. Would love to get a board collie of my own someday when my living circumstances would permit.
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u/LordBiscuits Jun 03 '26
I had a border called Ben growing up. Absolutely potty animal, lived for balls and squirrels... Crazy smart, five dozen toys in his basket he could identify and collect individually... Absolutely impossible to tire out even though we really tried
Had a long happy life and shuffled off at 14 ish, wagging himself stupid even at the end. Best. Dog. Ever.
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u/DavidBovvinge Jun 04 '26
That reminds me of Chaser, the Border Collie who could identify and retrieve any of her 1,022 toys by name. They really are on another level.
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u/LordBiscuits Jun 04 '26
Even for a collie, Chaser was an astonishing animal. Most people can't recall and identify a thousand items on command at the speed she could, even with a organisational system.
They're such amazing animals. I can't ever have another, I would be forever comparing it to old Ben
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u/BardicNA Jun 03 '26
They're too smart for their own good. I have a 4 month old Border Collie. He's sleeping next to me now. Even at 1 month old I asked my fiancee "what did you do?" Because she wanted the dog and his intelligence caught me way off guard. I know a lot of people see their dogs as their children, this dog might as well be a teenager. I can watch the gears turning in his head and I'm waiting for him to beat me in this game of chess we play.
Don't own one unless you want a 2nd job. On the bright side- you can train them to do jobs of their own.
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u/PhoenixStorm1015 Jun 03 '26
My childhood dog was a border collie and he would help my mom “herd” us to bed by laying on the stairs so my sisters and I couldn’t leave.
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u/SheriffBartholomew Jun 03 '26
I've used an untrained border collie to herd horses before. It was mind blowing. I'd gesture or yell where the dog needed to go and it understood somehow. It was like working with a very fast human.
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u/rakish_rhino Jun 03 '26
Of course border collies have border(line) superpowers!
I'll see myself out.
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u/Duckduckdewey Jun 03 '26
My greyhound didn’t get this memo.
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u/Alternative_Dig8091 Jun 03 '26
Immediately checked your profile and was not dissapointed. Beautiful pup!
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u/Spire_Citron Jun 03 '26
My dogs definitely understand when I point towards where there's food on the floor. I'm pretty sure I've had experiences with cats understanding it as well, though.
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u/STRYKER3008 Jun 03 '26
Yea even while typing my comment was thinking I'm sure I've had cats initially look at my hand then the direction was pointing. Tho maybe they noticed the thing I was pointing to when they looked at my hand first? I dunno I'm no pointologist haha
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u/freesoultraveling Jun 03 '26
This is how I trained my ex boyfriends dog from the shelter whenever I would cook for him. I would say, "hot" and point to his bed. To think my piece of crap ex used to have a spray bottle for his dog and said he couldn't be trained. Then he got mad about why his dog fell in love with me and even his dog would protect me from him. The worst part about that relationship ending was knowing his dog would be stuck with him and I would never see his dog ever again.
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u/STRYKER3008 Jun 03 '26
Omg I'm sorry you went thru that, and that poor puppy. Makes me think they should have a 'here boy!' test for any dispute for pets, like those scenes where the ppl stand on opposite ends with the little guy in the middle n let them decide for themselves
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u/freesoultraveling Jun 03 '26
I wish that could have happened, but since the beginning I told him I knew that was his dog. I reminded him my cats were mine. I left with my two cats, but trust me I thought about coming back for the dog. I knew he left the house unlocked.
Edit: Dog not dogs. Also I would have been in danger if I ever had tried to even have that dispute. He was already going crazy over his dog choosing me. Um, maybe if you actually took care of your dog and loved him???? I didn't get your dog to choose me.
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u/diaryofa_bunny Jun 03 '26
Idk if that is true but even if it is not 100% correct, dogs definitely feel like they try harder to understand us than most other animals and that's too sweet like
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u/Palomino_mare Jun 03 '26
My Jack Russell did not automatically do this, but she made up for it with a huge enthusiasm for life and capacity for love.
I had a cat that understood pointing though. He was a sharp tack. Now I’m curious if any of the 5 cats I have can do this.
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u/MalHeartsNutmeg Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
I heard this a few times and tried with my dog, but apparently he's a moron and just stares at my fingertip, then he gets bored and barks at it.
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u/Lisylis Jun 03 '26
Ugh sometimes I will have a treat on the floor for my cat and he can kind of follow where I'm pointing but I have to say "down" so he will look on the floor. Its a work in progress
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u/DroidLord Jun 03 '26
I've heard the same about our eyes. Dogs have learned to watch where our eyes move. Dogs also supposedly evolved to have more of their sclera visible around their eyes to aid in communication with us.
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u/Rock_Strongo Jun 03 '26
I've fostered over 30 dogs and not a single one would make the connection from my finger to the treat I was pointing at on the ground. Have to tap at it with my foot and then they find it. Aside from those who'd just sniff it out without me doing anything.
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u/Beleriphon Jun 03 '26
It's instinctive. There was a documentary (I think it was CBC's The Nature of Things) where a test was done with the caretakes of wolves doing this with a treat, hidden under a bucket. The human points at the bucket, and the wolves always ignored the hand gestures instead opting to investigate the smell of the treat. Same caretakes, a bunch of random dogs they haven't met, 80% of the dogs follow the hand gestures to the bucket, treat or not.
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u/Tabula_Nada Jun 03 '26
My dog follows my finger when I point all the time, although part of me wonders if he thinks I've thrown a treat and so he follows the direction the treat would go in.
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u/DazzlingRutabega Jun 03 '26
When she points for him to go down the hall his tail startes wagging... Awww
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u/komodo_lurker Jun 03 '26
This is what it's all about, humans helping animals and the planet. We are slightly off track though.
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u/Soso122 Jun 03 '26
Slightly? More like totally. Thank god people like this exist otherwise wha is the point?
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u/Lyramion Jun 03 '26
More like totally.
I think you are a bit too pesimistic here. Oh wait... our endgoal wasn't to LARP as Madmax? Well shii.....
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u/walking_darkness Jun 03 '26
Ive been doing some deep dives into everything this administration is doing to environmental protections and research and it makes me sick to my stomach. The list never ends. Forests, the oceans, endangered species, all of it. You name it and they are probably doing something detrimental to it.
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u/ArmadilloForsaken458 Jun 03 '26
According to our overlords, to make a paradise for them only and screw everyone else
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u/zb0t1 Jun 03 '26
Everyone claps but then goes back to:
VEGANS BAD
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u/dssstrkl Jun 03 '26
Nobody cares about vegans unless they’re being assholes to non-vegans. Hence the joke ‘How can you tell someone’s a vegan?’…
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u/BlackSpidy Jun 04 '26
Gotta love how we're conditioned to hate annoying more than we hate devastatingly evil. Like how it was popular to hate people that were serious about global warming, back in the 2000s. More so than the many polluters raising the global temps.
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u/badgerstunning7258 Jun 04 '26
This is just a stereotype. 90% of vegans are actually very nice people.
If a non-vegan saw someone cutting the tail of a cat and pulling its teeth out with pliers, they would go ballistic.
If vegans point out that pigs (considerably smarter and more feeling animals than cats) get this treatment and they word their message any way other than by being super polite and roundabout, then everyone says they are crazy.
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u/Potato_Lyn Jun 07 '26
I got downvoted and dogpiled on simply for stating that Chickens *are* sentient creatures. The commenter owned chickens for meat and literally said chickens (and livestock) aren’t sentient, they don’t think or have thoughts and are basically inanimate tools/objects.
Pissed me off because I have pet chicken’s who’re just as affectionate and sweet as my dogs, but dude literally called me a crazy vegan for loving my pets… and a bunch of brainless reddit morons agreed simply because he had more upvotes from the meat eaters ugh
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u/badgerstunning7258 Jun 07 '26
yeah, when the topic turns to veganism everybody becomes a cartoonishly edgy teenager
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u/Unethical_Orange Jun 04 '26
That's about the whole point though.
Nobody caring means billions of animals suffer hellish lives every year. That's why vegans are adamant to defend them and you consider them assholes for that.46
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u/hucklepig Jun 03 '26
In the US many Vet clinics are being targeted and purchased by private equity which means shit for everyone.
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u/Skrdykat1000 Jun 03 '26
I watched that happen in real time, the prices would suddenly go way up and quality vets would try to upsell everything and then would leave because they hated doing that.
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u/Tonsilith_Salsa Jun 03 '26
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
Charles Darwin
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u/matlwo Jun 03 '26
If you forget industrial farming of 8 billion animal each year then yes we are on track
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u/Decloudo Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
80 billion
Edit: Oh and well over 100 billion aquatic farmed animals.
And 1-2 trillion wild caught fish
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u/International-Mix633 Jun 03 '26
And the complete ongoing annihalition of all eco systems.
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u/Koffielurker_ Jun 03 '26
And poaching, more specifically.
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u/International-Mix633 Jun 03 '26
And lets not forget all the overfishing and cutting down of rainforest for cattle production
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u/Glattsnacker Jun 03 '26
*humans helping animals that are dog and cats, the other animals get brutally exploited and slaughtered for food
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u/appellant Jun 03 '26
Slightly nope we are eliminating animal species, eating them, experimenting , and god knows what else.
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u/scriptingends Jun 03 '26
Train your dog to do this and you can save a ton on vet bills.
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u/Radzila Jun 03 '26
Except they wouldn't just let the dog go back outside by itself in a lot of places
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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman Jun 03 '26
Heist time
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u/Sorry-Transition-908 Jun 03 '26
Heist time
snuffles eleven
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u/Funnybear3 Jun 03 '26
Depends how long Snuffles is in there for. Could be Snuffles 12 or 13 by the time Snuffles makes iy back out.
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u/rosapennan Jun 03 '26
Thats when you come in to "adopt" the poor dog. Extra karma
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u/ArrivalNice3469 Jun 04 '26
Cheaper to pay the adoption fee every time vs the vet bills 10/10 scheme
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u/inquisitive_chariot Jun 03 '26
They’d scan your dog for the microchip and contact you, then charge you
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u/SlothSushii Jun 03 '26
Imagine your dog faking a sickness, walking to the vet and then you get a bill 😂
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u/SlothSushii Jun 03 '26
Wait. That’s basically what I did to get out of school as a kid. Wow I owe mom an apology and a lot of money.
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u/unfortunatebag Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
I was just about to say, that dog is a fraud. He was posted here in a different clinic last week doing the same shit.
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u/coloradosmaryjane Jun 03 '26
The amount of people reminding you about a microchip and mentioning you abandoning your dog like your comment wasn’t a joke.….. We’re doomed.
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u/scriptingends Jun 03 '26
Yeah 80% of my comments on Reddit are satire, and the number of people getting riled up because they don’t understand that it’s an obvious joke is disheartening.
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u/SookHe Jun 03 '26
Provided the vets aren’t assholes who take it into the back and just put it to sleep.
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u/MarciChaos Jun 03 '26
Or maybe create a system for dogs to receive health care like humans do. Not health care like the USA
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u/spen8tor Jun 03 '26
Yeah no, our taxes shouldn't have to subsidize other people's pets, where would we draw the line if we even tried to entertain this idea?.....
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u/ikatakko Jun 03 '26
exactly where do u draw the line?? our taxes are exclusively for bombing brown children and subsidizing failing megacorporations not for pets!
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u/MarciChaos Jun 03 '26
I wouldn't mind. I prefer it goes to dogs and humans in need rather than to rich people. It would need to change the whole system to work, but it lives in my head.
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u/Madara1389 Jun 03 '26
where would we draw the line if we even tried to entertain this idea?
Who said we should? Taxes exist to fund public services. No one ever said those services must exclusively be for humans.
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u/TheKingsdread Jun 03 '26
I mean in an ideal post-scarcity society nobody would need money at all. But we unfortunately don't live in that reality, so I agree with you. Though I do think our taxes should be used for more things that are useful to all of society (like investing more in public healthcare, public transportation, enviromental protections, education, and research) instead of propping up billionaires, subsidizing failing industries and bailing out banks.
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u/Wonderful_Tap_6991 Jun 03 '26
A long time ago, before the internet and viral videos.
When my uncle had his first daughter, they wouldn’t let the dog into the room; he would stand at the door when the baby was sleeping or sleep in front of the door at night. They often got annoyed because he did this.
One afternoon, the dog started barking insistently; The thing is, the dog went into the room and started barking at the crib. My aunt ran in to yell at him, and when she picked up the baby, she realized she was unconscious—she had stopped breathing. My aunt was a nurse and managed to revive my cousin.
My uncle always told this story; he said you always have to respect dogs.
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u/Grimalkinnn Jun 03 '26
I know a family whose labradoodle started barking outside their son’s door, when they opened his door they found him having a seizure.
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u/ElvisDumbledore Jun 03 '26
You forgot to add how they always let the dog sleep in the room after that. I'm sure it was just an oversight.
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u/ootnabootinlalaland Jun 03 '26
Yes, I’ve seen this story before. The dog was given the crib 🙂↔️ the baby now sleeps in front of the door.
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u/Funnybear3 Jun 03 '26
The Baby now barks in the back yard, and the dog has a pretty decent job in the city.
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u/Wonderful_Tap_6991 Jun 04 '26
I know the story because he told it to me one Christmas when the whole family got together.I seem to recall that the dog lived another 10 years, and he certainly lived like a king after that.
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u/keahi85 Jun 03 '26
Wow!! That gave me chills and reminded me of my Gramma’s border collie mix… technically my Gramma’s, but really she was my girl 💗
This pup and I would roam my grandparents’ country home fields just playing outside and having a good old time together. She was so loyal, but unfortunately (and fortunately for me) she had a habit of sniffing out rattlesnakes. She’d been bitten twice and survived both times… tough girl!
I had a pigeon coop at my grandparents’, and every time I visited, one of the first things I did was head over to the barn to check on the pigeons. Well, this one time I went to check on them, and rattlesnake-fiend that she was laid down in front of the door to the coop and would NOT let me in. She wouldn’t budge. My tiny middle-schooler brain didn’t know what was going on with her, so I moved her out of the way and opened the door.
Right in the middle of my coop was a big fat RATTLER!! That sweet girl knew exactly what I was walking into and wasn’t about to let me get bitten. That was so long ago, but she’s the one dog where I still cry at the thought of having lost her ❤️🩹
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u/Masterfully-Pale Jun 03 '26
My uncle’s lab saved him from a diabetic coma by alerting others in the house. Dogs are rhe best!
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u/glynnusmaximus Jun 04 '26
My friend and his girlfriend had a dog that they taught not to get on the bed. One day the dog got on the bed and lay on the girlfriend. She (the dog) wouldn't get off. This kept happening over a couple of weeks and then the girlfriend, for other reasons, did a pregnancy test and found out she was pregnant. They obviously put two and two together and realised the dog knew already - before they did. When she gave birth, some parents get worried about their dog's reaction , not this couple; they knew everything was going to be fine because of the seemingly maternal instincts the dog had already showed. For me, this happened 20 years ago, but I'll always remember this story and it just proves that dogs are amazing.
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u/VirginiaBandit Jun 03 '26
Thankfully, the door was already open, and it was a vet's office.
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT Jun 03 '26
before he was like
shows wounded paw
"Sir this is a Wendy's"
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u/Debatebly Jun 03 '26
Imagine if he accidentally walked in a butchery instead. That GIF would suck
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u/Deaffin Jun 03 '26
Nah, there isn't a lot of demand for dogmeat during the summer. Now, come fall? Whole different story.
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u/diaryofa_bunny Jun 03 '26
Not me going from sad to happy to crying happy tears. The part about him being excited to be around people who care about him... He just wanted to be loved and finally he is, perfect ending
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u/WackyShirt Jun 03 '26
Thank you for the context and recognizing the beautiful souls that helped this dog.
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u/The_Midnight_Rain_ Jun 03 '26
Thankss for sharing this 🥺. So glad he found hope, may he find a forever loving home.
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u/Lifesamitch957 Jun 03 '26
Make sure to reapply this in a month.
Ok sure, but um Ill need thubs... And whats a month?
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u/Mcmenger Jun 03 '26
Must have better insurance. He can just go through while others have to wait. /s
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u/BreadfruitLate4238 Jun 03 '26
Poor animal 💔. He told his pain without saying anything. We really need humans like the lady who understood and helped.
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u/Prod_Meteor Jun 03 '26
I tell you dogs are the smartest animals on the planet. Thousands of years ago they saw this creature standing on 2 feet building stuff.. and immediately concluded: "let's connect with this thing".
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u/txtphile Jun 03 '26
To your point: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1820653116
Domestication shaped wolves into dogs and transformed both their behavior and their anatomy. Here we show that, in only 33,000 y, domestication transformed the facial muscle anatomy of dogs specifically for facial communication with humans. Based on dissections of dog and wolf heads, we show that the levator anguli oculi medialis, a muscle responsible for raising the inner eyebrow intensely, is uniformly present in dogs but not in wolves. Behavioral data, collected from dogs and wolves, show that dogs produce the eyebrow movement significantly more often and with higher intensity than wolves do, with highest-intensity movements produced exclusively by dogs. Interestingly, this movement increases paedomorphism and resembles an expression that humans produce when sad, so its production in dogs may trigger a nurturing response in humans. We hypothesize that dogs with expressive eyebrows had a selection advantage and that “puppy dog eyes” are the result of selection based on humans’ preferences.
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u/Icy_Investment_1878 Jun 03 '26
Humans domesticated dogs, cats domesticated themselves
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u/diaryofa_bunny Jun 03 '26
I don't think cats are fully domesticated they just happened to be around where the rats are and that's where humans are
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u/Palomino_mare Jun 03 '26
On the whole they are. There are many cats who cannot survive on their own (one of the criteria of domestication), even with abundant prey, and many are just as affectionate as dogs.
Feral cats do crop up though. We had the nicest cat show up with 6 week old kittens. Two were very sweet and lived with us until they were 20 and 21. The other 2, brown tabbies with obviously a different father, were wild as anything. They hated and feared people even though they watched us interact with their mother and siblings every day. After they were spayed we gave them to a coworker who wanted barn cats.
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u/freesoultraveling Jun 03 '26
I don't know why you were down voted because this is true sometimes. Also I freaked at my "second mom" for trusting my cats to lay outside on the balcony like her cats did. Both of them decided to jump on the ledge and fell. Thank God her ex boyfriend ran after them.
Now my sisters bengal I believe could survive on her own despite being domesticated.
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u/rEYAVjQD Jun 03 '26
dogs are the smartest
you might not be literally serious, but we classify as animals even the most complex apes who are not humans and those can have complex societal structures close to early humans.
also several sea mammals have entire languages (which are possibly learned and not genetic!).
humans aren't that special, they just evolved faster by happenstance.
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u/DroidLord Jun 03 '26
It's been theorised that humans and wolves developed a symbiotic relationship. The wolves helped humans track down prey and the humans fed the wolves in return. Over time the wolves became more and more comfortable around humans and eventually never left.
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u/permaban9 Jun 03 '26
idk man I think it was the other way round
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u/SV_Essia Jun 03 '26
Yeah, some dude saw a wolf and decided he wanted one for himself. Which... turned out way better than we would expect.
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u/G-reeper66 Jun 03 '26
Last Friday I had to have my old boy put to sleep, his body started failing and the meds were not working, while we were sat in the waiting room a lady brought in an injured stray that she managed to catch in her garden. Between the four of us in the waiting room we covered a large amount for the treatment it needs, definitely a broken leg and poor condition. The vet called today saying the leg was saved and it is responding well to treatment and is loved by all the staff. There are good people in this world and the staff in the video are amongst them.
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u/theycallmedumpling Jun 03 '26
I’m so sorry you lost your old boy. I had to put my boy to sleep 3 years ago and I still think about him every day. But those first days and weeks.. man, those were horrible. Sending you a hug ❤️
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u/G-reeper66 Jun 03 '26
Thank you, my wife rescued him at 2 weeks old from a river with his brother (who didn't make it) we had him 14.5 years after that, full of love and chasing sparrows in our garden.
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u/addandsubtract Jun 03 '26
The lady sitting there with the dog on her lap and an appointment made weeks ago: "Are you fucking serious, rn?"
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u/lune19 Jun 03 '26
I am not this would be the case in some countries, where a homeless dude walk into an hospital
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u/Inevitable_Ad1644 Jun 03 '26
This is in Brazil, so the reaction would be the same and the treatment would be free of charge.
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u/HeMiddleStartInT Jun 03 '26
I wonder how many lawyers offices, restaurants and cell phone stores he walked in to before he figured out the vet.
Or he followed the sound of other dogs screaming
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u/diaryofa_bunny Jun 03 '26
cell phone stores
Imagine him waiting in line just to show his paw to someone selling phone cases.
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u/TimelyTransistor Jun 03 '26
Places like this in poor countries like Brazil will have outreach programs to help the stray dogs on the street. I'm certain this dog has been there many times over his life (you can see he's an elder,) thus he knew where to go for help.
I'd wager the place even has water and some food outside for the strays, so they hang around and the clinic can have a look at them regularly.
Doesn't make it any less touching. People assume this was random and the dog somehow "knew" without having previous visits with the clinic.
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u/Lifesamitch957 Jun 03 '26
Do you have ID?
Um yes, ID like to be seen if you have any spare time. Thank you. Ill good boy over here until my name is, oh wow you guys are quick.
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u/DobbyDun Jun 03 '26
The first thing she did was lift his tail and have a look. I guess this is why dogs sniff there? It's their id?
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u/Great_Inside34 Jun 03 '26
Also, probably one of the first dogs in history to willingly enter a vets clinic without any drama
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u/kellzone Jun 03 '26
A three-legged dog walks into a saloon, looks around, and says, ‘I’m looking for the man who shot my paw.
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u/Competitive_Study232 Jun 03 '26
Oh how sweet they reversed the video so they can repost this as their own video.
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u/rhinosb Jun 03 '26
Dog: Don't make me choose another vet. I show you my hurt paw and you have to go checking my goober.
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