Anybody else catch this video? That's just disgusting. I mean gimmee a break, what an a f'n stupid stupid idiot. Beautiful dog too. https://www.kwqc.com/2020/07/23/vid...-highway-fuels-outrage-calls-for-legislation/
Yep, that ticks me off. I've started the process of looking again. We lucked out on our two Goldens. The first failed his last living assisted test and we just gave a donation to the facility for him, and Joshua was only $500 from a small breeder who has closed her business. I could go to the Humane Society, but I have to say our Goldens were such great guys it's hard to look for anything else, even though I know they can all be great guys.
94% accuracy on 1000+ people. That's incredible. Adds a whole new dimension to the thread title I guess. Trained dogs were able to sniff out Covid-19 infections with 94% accuracy: study Published Fri, Jul 24 202012:39 PM EDT Dogs have smell receptors up to 10,000 times more powerful and accurate than humans. That allows certain trained dogs to sniff out diseases like cancer, malaria and viral infections. Now, according to German researchers, trained dogs can sniff out coronavirus infections. A new study, which was piloted by the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, the Hannover Medical School and the German Armed Forces found that, if properly trained, dogs were able to discriminate between human saliva samples infected with SARS-CoV-2 and non-infected samples with a 94% success rate overall. The hope is this method of detection could be one day be used in public areas such as airports, sporting events and other mass gatherings (in addition to laboratory testing) to help prevent future Covid-19 outbreaks, according to researchers. To conduct the study, researchers trained eight dogs from Germany's Armed Forces for one week. The trained dogs sniffed the saliva of more than 1,000 people that were either healthy or infected with the virus. Samples infected with Covid-19 were distributed at random and neither the dog handlers nor the researchers on site knew which ones were positive. In a YouTube video about the project, Maren von Koeckritz-Blickwede, a professor at the university, who conducted the study, says they think dogs are able to do this because the metabolic processes of an infected person "completely change." "We think that the dogs are able to detect a specific smell of the metabolic changes that occur in those patients," she says. While more research is still needed, Von Koeckritz-Blickwede says the next step is to train dogs to differentiate Covid-19 samples from other diseases like influenza. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while dogs can get infected with Covid-19, there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading the virus. The study was published in BMC Infectious Diseases on July 23.
Dogs have been trained to sniff all sorts of conditions. Some have the ability to feel - whether it's scent or some other signal - upcoming epileptic seizures.
'Close to 100% accuracy': Helsinki airport uses sniffer dogs to detect Covid https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ort-enlists-sniffer-dogs-to-test-for-covid-19 Also the results in the UK seem very positive!
Pretty girls and the garden It was pure luck gettin dummy-head Golden to lie still for the shot. Had to jump on it it when it happened. I swear the lab see's a camera, and she gets up and moves. That pic came out good.
I worked for a while with a physician who treated recovering addicts. He had a lot of success helping people battling addiction. His basic prescription was to ensure his patients received any needed treatment for mental health issues, and to instruct them to get off every single addictive substance (including caffeine and cigarettes), exercise every day, and get a pet. It's nice to get up every morning to someone who 'loves' and needs me (even if it takes the form of waking me to beg for food at 5 AM). I have a wonderful cuddly Main Coon mix. She may add 10 years to my life, but it will seem like 20.
We lost our 2 Maine Coons this year on top of our best buddy. Loved those 2 just as much. They made it to 16 years old and were brother and sister. The male, Rocket, was hilarious with our Golden. Rocket was the boss since he was here first in his mind. When Joshua was a puppy Rocket would get in a chair and and the 2 would have playful fights endlessly. Joshua thought it was great fun, but I am pretty sure Rocket was thinking he was establishing he was the boss around here. At the end of the day the 2 goofballs would cuddle in together and take a nap.
Last year we lost all our pets within a few months too - two cats and a dog. It was a difficult time, I know how much that hurts.