Adam Montiel’s kitchen needs some serious dog-proofing.
The San Luis Obispo, Calif., radio host wondered just how Allie, his 12-year-old Yellow Lab, was managing to open the refrigerator and freezer doors, and to pull food out onto the floor.
So he put a GoPro camera in his kitchen, which caught the old girl in action.
“My girlfriend taught Allie to open a drawer where Allie’s toys were,” he says in the description of the video, which is going viral on YouTube. “We didn’t even think that the freezer itself is a big giant drawer…with food! But how she opened the doors with her mouth, and at the hinges, was incredible to us.”
Montiel insists they are not bad pet parents. “Yes we feed her, she is a very smart and loving soul, and we love her more than anything,” he says.
But just to make sure Allie doesn’t eat anything a dog shouldn’t, hopefully Montiel will invest in a couple of latches and locks. (And put the trash can away, too.)
Here’s proof that an old dog can even teach herself new tricks.
With so many stories in the news about trigger-happy cops shooting people — and dogs — it’s good to know that there are plenty of compassionate police officers in this country.
Two such officers are Kelly Shay and Rodger Nolan of the Columbus Police Department (CPD) in Ohio. Both of them recently went out of their ways to help puppies instead of harm them. Bravo to these heroes!
Officer Kelly Shay Saves ‘Oscar’ from Trash Can and Adopts Him
While Kelly Shay was on patrol in May, a woman flagged her down. She said she had seen a man dump a puppy in a trash can near an elementary school.
Shay pulled the puppy out of the trash. His right front leg appeared to be broken.
“Ofr. Shay took him in her arms, [and] got a rescue to cover his medical bills,” according to the Columbus Division of Police Facebook page.
Shay became the puppy’s foster mom as he recovered. She named him Oscar — after the Sesame Street resident who lives in a trash can.
“Well, we are happy to tell you after fostering him and helping him post-surgery, Ofr. Shay adopted Oscar!!!” the CPD reported Nov. 10. (Hooray for foster fails!)
Oscar “has brought so much joy to us,” Shay said, adding, “He is FINALLY backing off of chasing our cat!”
Officer Rodger Nolan Pulls Pup from Wreck and Becomes His Dog Dad
“ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER CPD OFFICER RESCUES & ADOPTS A PUPPY!” says a Columbus Division of Police Facebook page update on Nov. 21.
Earlier this month, Officer Rodger Nolan was at the scene of a bad car accident on the east side of Columbus. Trapped inside the wreckage was a 4-month-old, mixed-breed puppy. Nolan managed to pull her out to safety. For unknown reasons, the puppy’s owner decided to surrender her.
“Officer Nolan fell in love with her instantly,” according to the CPD.
Nolan later managed to talk his wife into going with him to the Franklin County Dog Shelter & Adoption Center, where the pup had been taken. There they officially became the four-legged crash survivor’s new pet parents.
The pup, who they named Camden, is already becoming BFFs with the Nolans’ other two dogs, a Great Dane named Shea and Boxer named Wrigley.
Feel free to call a rescued Beagle mix named Buddy an ambulance chaser.
Buddy’s dog dad, 85-year-old JR Nicholson of Mason County, Texas, began feeling dizzy while working on his ranch last month. He asked ranch hand Brian Wright to call 911.
Emergency medical technicians loaded Nicholson into an ambulance and headed for a hospital in Fredericksburg, more than an hour’s drive away.
After they had traveled about 20 miles, a driver caught their attention. There’s a dog on the sideboard, the driver told them.
“It was kind of weird,” Tanner Brown, one of the EMTs, told the San Angelo Standard-Times. “I guess the dog wanted to be with his owner.”
Apparently. And it was kind of a miracle that Buddy had somehow managed not to fall off the ambulance’s narrow sideboard.
“We didn’t have anything else to do but to load the dog up and put him in the ambulance, and take him to the ER with us,” Brown said. Once inside the ambulance, he said Buddy “jumped onto the control switch, and turned on the sirens and the lights.”
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Wright was becoming concerned when Buddy — who enjoys roaming the property and riding on the tractor — seemed to have disappeared. Wright closed up the ranch and drove to the hospital, where he found out Buddy was safe and sound.
“Two things go through your mind in a split second,” he told the Standard-Times. “First, what could have happened to (Buddy), and second, you realize he is quite an animal.”
Most relieved of all is Nicholson, who adopted Buddy from a shelter just four months ago. During Nicholson’s overnight stay at the hospital, nurses brought him out to see his devoted dog.
“I was impressed,” Nicholson told the Standard-Times. “He didn’t have to go to the hospital with me, but he did.”
Just a week or two ago, a cute video of a baby crawling up to the family dog racked up millions of views. And now there’s this, the latest viral sensation in ridiculously adorable baby/dog interactions caught on video.
In this new video — which Sabrina Sauve uploaded on YouTube Thursday and has already been viewed nearly 3 million times as of Monday morning — her baby, Alexis, bounces in a Jolly Jumper as her Border Collar, Dakota, pounces on the baby’s shadow.
“Alexis is learning the Jolly Jumper. Day(kota) has a love for shadows. Put these two together and what do you get…,” Sauve wrote in the description of her video, “Ally & Day, Dog teaching baby to jump.”
Baby see, baby do: Alexis starts gleefully imitating the dog, and, as you can see, heartwarming hilarity ensues.
DEC. 18, 2014 UPDATE: There’s very happy news for this sweet pair — Molly and Buster have been adopted by two women who saw the dogs on KOMO News! “If we had special ordered the perfect home, this would have been it!” NOAH Center posted today in an update on its Facebook page. “The ladies have owned multiple Beagles in their past & own a beautiful farm with acres of fenced yard. Buster and Molly now have a couple of Golden Retriever friends too! This really is the season for miracles!”
After being abandoned at a farm in Washington three months ago, an older male and female Beagle were taken in by the NOAH Center, an animal shelter in Stanwood, Wash.
The two dogs, whom the shelter named Buster and Molly, didn’t seem to pay much attention to the staff. At first the workers figured it was due to their age — they are both about 8 years old — and the stress from being in the shelter.
But then they noticed that Buster frequently walked into walls. Molly would often block him from doing so, and would nudge him through the doggie doors.
“Molly is a seeing-eye dog, so for her brother she helps to make sure he doesn’t get into situations that could be dangerous for him,” Lani Kurtz, the shelter’s adoption director, told KOMO News. She said she believes the dogs may be siblings since they are the same age.
According to the shelter’s website, Buster and Molly are “a couple of goofy and energetic Beagles that have so much love and appreciation for life; a pair of friends we could all learn a lesson from.”
Buster and Molly did get adopted out together after they were brought to the shelter, but unfortunately it didn’t work out. Their new pet parent’s home had an unfenced yard and no doggie doors — two important items this pair can’t go without.
So Buster and Molly are once again available, but only as a couple.
“They have to go together. Buster needs Molly,” Kurtz told KOMO News. “We will keep them until we find that perfect place for them.”
The adoption fee for both is $200. There is a $50 discount on Mondays, as well as discounts for seniors.
“They are no longer spring chickens, and don’t have a fondness for children, so a home without kids would be best,” notes the shelter’s website.
For more information, visit the NOAH Center website, call 360-629-7055 or email info@thenoahcenter.org.
Photo via the NOAH Center
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