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Balto

Balto (c. 1922 – 14 March 1933) was a Siberian Husky sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease. Kaasen did not consider Balto a particularly good lead dog, but Balto proved himself on the Iditarod trail, saving his team from certain death in the Topkok River. Balto was also able to stay on the trail in near whiteout conditions in which Kaasen admitted he could barely see his hand in front of his face. During a blizzard, Kaasen and his team missed the last sled dog team and had to take the medicine twice as far, which was what eventually brought them to fame.
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Seaman, a black Newfoundland dog, was purchased for $20 by Captain Meriwether Lewis for his famed Lewis and Clark expedition. During the expedition, around May 14, 1805, both Captains, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, performed surgery on one of Seaman's arteries in his hind leg, that had been severed by a beaver bite. In early 1806, as the expedition was beginning the return journey, Seaman was stolen by Indians and Lewis uncharacteristically threatened to burn down their village unless the dog was returned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaman_%28Newfoundland_dog%29
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A bruised and battered south Georgia woman credits a stray German shepherd with rescuing her after her car careened down an embankment, tossing her through the rear window and leaving her sprawled, cut and bleeding, on the vehicle's trunk. Shannon Lorio, 36, said the dog, which has since been named Hero, pulled her by her shirt collar off the trunk and dragged her about 50 yards through briars to the edge of a highway Jan. 26. He let her lean against him so that she could stand up and flag a passing motorist.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/pets/stories/DN-herodog_03nat.ART.State.Edition1.297
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my dog would never do this shit for me
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Rex the MOTHERFUCKING Wonder Dog fought a Tyrannosaurus Rex with the threat of being nuked looming over his head!
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>>209770
Hey, that's from my hometown, Thomasville, GA.

I haven't heard that story, though I suppose it's been all over the news at some point.
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A seven year old German Shephard - Timberwolf mixed dog named Shana is quite a canine hero in Alden as the story spreads of her efforts to save her owners during the October surprise storm.

Eve and Norman Fertig, who are both 81 years old, were out treating injured birds in the Wildlife Sanctuary on their Alden property on the night of October 12th. They left as the storm intensified but, were soon trapped by falling trees and heavy snow as they tried to walk back to their home. Eve realized they could die in the bitter cold but, fortunately, Shana was with them.

http://www.wgrz.com/news/Daybreak_article.aspx?storyid=43081
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>>209774
I lol'd
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Hachik? (???, Hachik?? November 10, 1923 – March 8, 1935), sometimes known in Japanese as ch?ken hachik? (?? ???,, ch?ken hachik?? lit. 'faithful dog Hachik?'), was an Akita dog born in the city of Odate, Akita Prefecture remembered for his loyalty to his master

In 1924, Hachik? was brought to Tokyo by his owner, Hidesamuroh Ueno (?????), a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo. During his owner's life, Hachik? saw him off from the front door and greeted him at the end of the day at the nearby Shibuya Station. Even after Ueno's death in May 1925, Hachik? returned every day to the station to wait for him, and did so for the next 10 years. In 1928, a new station master came to Shibuya Station who grew fond of the dog and allowed him free run of the facility. Hachik? still kept his schedule, but also was allowed to remain in the station throughout the day, sleeping in a storeroom set aside for him by the new station master.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
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;_; Reminds me of pic.
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Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dogs for Defense was (DFD) was established. Word soon got out that the armed forces needed dogs. Thousands of patriotic pet owners across America responded by donating their pets for enlistment into the K-9 Corps. Little did a family from Pleasantville, NY know that their shepherd mix, Chips, would become the most decorated dog hero of World War II.

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Perhaps the event that most exemplifies his courage and devotion occurred early one morning on a beach in Sicily. As he and his handler proceeded up the beach, they came under fire from a disguised pillbox. Chips broke free from his handler and launched himself right into the pillbox. Moments later several bitten and surrendering Italian soldiers emerged, all shepherded by a very determined Chips.

Though wounded in the melee, Chips returned to duty that night, and alerted troops to an approaching group of Italians. This allowed his handler and squad time to capture all of them.
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http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,K9_051605,00.html
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Heroic American soldiers parade prisoners of war. This of course was before the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of POWs.
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Gerald Davies, his wife and 23-year-old son were in bed in their house in Gwersyllt, near Wrexham, when their kitchen cooker caught fire - but Barney the cat came to the rescue.
Six-year-old Barney woke the family by racing upstairs and making lots of noise.

His heroic antics won him a national competition run by the Cats Protection League.

The organisation, which rescues and rehomes unwanted and abandoned cats, named Barney cat of the year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/pets/pages/barney.shtml
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Tibbles the Cat

Tibbles was the cat of a lighthouse keeper of Steven's Island. Tibbles the cat soon made Stephens Island her home and hunting ground during 1894. It was not long before she was presenting her master with gifts of local wildlife — in particular, a small bird which was unlike any that Lyall had ever seen. After Tibbles brought him a handful of the birds, Lyall shared his find with a Mr Henry Travers of Wellington.

Eleven of the birds were brought to Lyall by Tibbles in almost pristine condition, as she seemd to enjoy the act of the chase and the kill rather than eating the birds. The discovery quickly found its way to Sir Walter Buller, New Zealand's ornithological expert at the time. A duly excited Buller reported the find to the British Ornithologists' Club in London after classifying the bird as a member of the wren family.

Due to Tibbles' expert mousing skills (or indeed, 'birding' skills), the wren colony on Stephens Island, perhaps a total of ten mating pairs, was extinct within the year of discovery.

The Stephens Island Wren has a rare place in ecological history. Not only was it one of only three flightless songbirds in the world, it also holds the distinction of being the only known species on Earth to be entirely wiped out by a single being.
>> Anonymous
>>209861
The human species ought to be ashamed. Bested by a housecat!
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Sergeant Stubby (1916 or 1917 – 16 March 1926), was the most decorated war dog of World War I, and the only dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat.

Stubby served with the 102nd Infantry, 26th (Yankee) Division in the trenches in France for 18 months and participated in four offensives and 17 battles. He entered combat on February 5, 1918, at Chemin des Dames, north of Soissons, and was under constant fire, day and night for over a month. In April 1918, during a raid to take Schieprey, Stubby was wounded in the foreleg by the retreating Germans throwing hand grenades. He was sent to the rear for convalescence, and as he had done on the front was able to improve morale. When he recovered from his wounds, Stubby returned to the trenches. After being gassed himself, Stubby learned to warn his unit of poison gas attacks, located wounded soldiers in no man's land, and — since he could hear the whine of incoming artillery shells before humans could — became very adept at letting his unit know when to duck for cover. He was even solely responsible for capturing a German spy in the Argonne. Following the retaking Château-Thierry by the US, the thankful women of the town made Stubby a chamois coat on which were pinned his many medals. There is also a legend that while in Paris with Corporal Conroy, Stubby saved a young girl from being hit by a car. At the end of the war, Conroy smuggled Stubby home.
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>>209768
Man, I remember that movie.
>> Anonymous
You forgot to mention the Sgt. Stubby was an American Pit bull terrier: a breed that is banned in most parts of the country now.
>> Anonymous
>>You forgot to mention the Sgt. Stubby was an American Pit bull terrier: a breed that is banned in most parts of the country now.

If you are referring to the US the only places I know of that have banned them is in Chicago and Denver, neither of which is enforced. There are more after the ban then before.

They are banned in many other nations, but I don't know if it is enforced.
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Is this true? I have never heard anything about it before.