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The Large Resources Employed To Save A Dog


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2021 Oct 16, 6:30am   259 views  3 comments

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#cliffdogreesucepacifica 20 years ago Elena and I moved into the first home that we owned. It was a townhouse in the Blossom Hill area of San Jose. One night we were watching television in bed. A movie came on with the title of Behind Enemy Lines. Here is the IMDB report for those of you who are curious:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159273/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
The movie was set during the 1990s conflict involving Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc. A US Navy fighter aircraft with two men on board roars off the deck of an aircraft carrier. As it flies over territory controlled by the Serbians, it is shot down by a surface-to-air missile. The two men eject and are able to land safely.
The rest of the movie is the story of the fight to survive by the two downed airmen. It also followed the huge effort on the part of the US and Spanish military officials to save these two men.
Elena was mesmerized by the movie. When it was over, she told me that she was amazed at the amount of money, time, and use of personnel that was in the rescue process. She said that such a thing would never happen in Argentina.
I pointed out to her that in the US military, a social contract existed. If one was sent out on a mission and got in trouble, everything humanly possible was done to get one back to safety.
Let us first forward to a few days ago. I was out doing my afternoon walk. I saw many fire and emergency vehicles at the end of the beach near the Sharp Park golf course. More emergency vehicles arrived. Fire personnel were not talking. A lady who had been hiking high in the hills told me that she saw some fire personnel repelling down a cliff.
I went home sure that some unlucky person had fallen to their death. (We had a similar case a few weeks earlier.) When I did my research, I got a pleasant surprise. No human had fallen to their deaths. A dog had got stranded. It appears that the animal was rescued alive.
It was amazing and refreshing to see the resources employed to save a dog.

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1   HeadSet   2021 Oct 16, 12:39pm  

I wonder if this is based on that Air Force F-16 pilot who got shot down by an old SA-6 while flying over Serbia.
2   richwicks   2021 Oct 16, 12:44pm  

ohomen171 says
It was amazing and refreshing to see the resources employed to save a dog.


There is a woman in Utah that pulls Samoyeds from South Korea, to prevent being eaten.

There's some controversy with this woman since there are Samoyeds in the United States in shelters, but it's much more rare since the dogs aren't as popular as they once were. I fostered for one of her dogs. The dog had no social training, had never lived in a home, wasn't able to walk down the street without being in constant fear. I adopted her out about 4 years ago. Last dog I fostered for.
3   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2021 Oct 16, 12:53pm  

richwicks says
ohomen171 says
It was amazing and refreshing to see the resources employed to save a dog.


There is a woman in Utah that pulls Samoyeds from South Korea, to prevent being eaten.

There's some controversy with this woman since there are Samoyeds in the United States in shelters, but it's much more rare since the dogs aren't as popular as they once were. I fostered for one of her dogs. The dog had no social training, had never lived in a home, wasn't able to walk down the street without being in constant fear. I adopted her out about 4 years ago. Last dog I fostered for.


Multiple pug rescues in US do the same from China. From their Facebook postings, they have had much greater success.

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