Sir Isaac Newton's dog is famous for a serious incident. While Newton was attending divine service on a winter morning, he had left Diamond in his study. Upon returning from chapel, he found that the dog had knocked over a lighted candle on his desk, which set fire to several papers in which he had recorded the results of some optical experiments. These papers are said to have contained the labours of many years, and it has been stated that when Newton perceived the magnitude of his loss, he exclaimed: " Oh, Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the damage thou hast done."
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Kind and gentle man
Sir Isaac Newton's dog is famous for a serious incident. While Newton was attending divine service on a winter morning, he had left Diamond in his study. Upon returning from chapel, he found that the dog had knocked over a lighted candle on his desk, which set fire to several papers in which he had recorded the results of some optical experiments. These papers are said to have contained the labours of many years, and it has been stated that when Newton perceived the magnitude of his loss, he exclaimed: " Oh, Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the damage thou hast done."
Sunday 26 April 2009
Where are you?
Fonda's Bichon somehow wiggled away from her handler during a curtain call for her new play 33 Variations and was onstage for the actress' bows.
"I saw, through my legs, this white thing and I thought, 'That's not what I think it is!' And then I heard the click-click-click of her little nails on the stage," Fonda said. "She knows what the applause means. She knows that means that it's over and that we're going to be reunited. She came looking for me."
The play is by Moises Kaufman and Fonda portrays Katherine, a musicologist dying of a wasting disease. Sounds meaningful!
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Flemish greyhound in Amsterdam
Sunday 19 April 2009
6th Day
On the sixth day, as recounted in the Bible, God created the creatures of the earth, and man named them. Brilliantly titled in reference to that day, these pictures explore the complex relationship between man and domesticated animals. These are not animals endowed with human qualities; they are someone’s livelihood, their means of survival. Alessandra Sanguinetti skillfully portrays the lives and deaths of domesticated animals as both a practical and ritual part of human existence. Sanguinetti took these pictures in her native Argentina.
Monday 13 April 2009
Postal mascot
Owney, also known as "Globe-Trotter," was a mutt found abandoned outside an
Over the next decade Owney traveled over 140,000 miles, once even circling the globe, following postal professionals wherever they traveled. He was outfitted with a vest to which mail clerks would pin baggage tags. "American postal workers were his family," explained the curator of the
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Despite his one fatal gaff, Owney was still a beloved dog. Mail clerks raised money to have him stuffed and put on display in a glass case -- first at Post Office Headquarters in
Wednesday 8 April 2009
Unbelievable
Owner Jan Griffith said her family was devastated when their cattle dog, Sophie Tucker, fell off the side of their boat in choppy waters off the Mackay coast in north Queensland in late November.
But unbeknown to them, their hardy hound swam five nautical miles in shark infested waters to St. Bees Island, where she survived by hunting baby goats.
She was last week returned to her family after rangers captured what they believed was a wild dog.
Griffith said she and her husband had contacted rangers after friends suggested the dog — who had earned a name for herself on the island — might be their long-lost pet.
Last Tuesday the couple met the rangers' boat as it ferried the dog back to the mainland and were blown away to find Sophie Tucker on board.
"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us,'' Griffith said.
But even more unbelievable was hearing how their domesticated "inside'' dog had survived, she said.
Thursday 2 April 2009
Cornish lifeguard dog
Normal dogs are banned from beaches in Cornwall from Easter until end of September, but Newfoundland lifeguard dog Bilbo got round that by sitting in his owner's beach buggy during patrols.
But when officials decided that wasn't safe, Bilbo was banned too.
Now about 1,500 people have signed a petition to get him classed as a working dog to see him back on patrol.
If he wasn't an official working dog, Bilbo's lifeguard owner Steve Jamieson would be fined £75 every time Bilbo was spotted on the beach.
The six-year-old dog had to pass special fitness and swimming tests before he was allowed to become Cornwall's first beach rescue dog three years ago.
His water-resistant coat and webbed paws come in very handy for the work and he's even got his own lifeguard vest.