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.
“Our little girl crawls for the first time on video, but what happened next melted our hearts,” wrote Don Swift, of Atlanta, in regard to a video he posted on YouTube Oct. 21 that’s going viral.
Watch the baby and big, black Labrador Retriever’s very first meet-up below.
“Labs are the best family dog ever!” wrote proud baby/dog daddy Swift.
After a Toy Poodle named Muffin began losing his vision due to cataracts — and took a spill down some stairs — his dog mom, Silvie Bordeaux, decided to do something to help him safely get around.
Bordeaux invented the Muffin’s Halo Guide for Blind Dogs, a lightweight, three-piece device that includes a harness, copper tubing “halo” and wing-shaped padding on the back. It stops vision-impaired pups of all sizes from bumping into walls and furniture, or worse.
“They can eat and sleep and play and run with it on,” Bordeaux told the Associated Press. “It’s like their superpowers.”
Dr. Christin Fahrer, of Eye Care for Animals in Culver City, Calif., told the AP that if the halo hits the wall before the dog does, it will slow him down and help prevent injury to his face.
“We are the ones who struggle with the concept of our pets being blind,” Dr. Fahrer said, noting that dogs can adapt fairly easily to losing their sight. “We struggle with what it would be like for us. Our pets don’t drive or read, but we use our vision every moment of every day. It’s a different world for them.”
On the Muffin’s Halo website, Bordeaux wrote, “Muffin now knows his home again and can travel with me to any hotel or friend’s house and gets to familiarize any new surroundings, quickly. He just loves this aid and is back to his peppy confident self!”
Bordeaux wrote that she was “stunned” over how many dogs are abandoned or euthanized when they lose their eyesight. To help these pups, she started the non-profit Second Chances For Blind Dogs, which donates Muffin’s Halos to blind dogs in shelters.
Like the dogs wearing the device she created, Bordeaux has earned her angel wings. (Muffin’s Halo is also available in butterfly and quarterback shapes.) For information about ordering it, visit the website.
A 9-week-old German Shepherd named Batman became an Internet sensation today, and for a very worthy cause.
Batman is in training to become a member of the Boston Police Department’s K-9 unit. In this photo by Jonathan Kozowyk, the little pup is wearing a vest that’s just a wee bit too large for him.
The hand and legs in the photo belong to Officer Troy Caisey, the head trainer of the K-9 unit.
The photo is included in the 2015 Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog Calendar, on sale now for only $10 (plus shipping and handling). Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog is a volunteer-run nonprofit whose goal is to ensure that every police dog in that state has a bulletproof vest.
“All Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog calendar proceeds will be used to support Massachusetts police dogs, helping provide vests, essential equipment, training and dogs,” according to the organization’s Facebook page.
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