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Passengers in crowded bus let sleeping dog occupy seats
A video showing a dog occupying two empty seats in a crowded bus has gone viral on social media.
The clip was posted on Twitter and read: “Although the wagon was crowded and it was occupying two seats, nobody disturbed its (the dog’s) rest.”
The heartwarming video showed a number of passengers standing inside a crowded bus, waiting to get a seat. As the camera panned out, the clip then showed a canine peacefully sleeping on two seats, while passengers stood around it.
What melted the hearts was the fact that even though there were a number of people in the vehicle waiting to get a seat, none of them disturbed the sleeping pooch.
One user wrote, “Let sleeping dogs lie. Let every sleeping living thing sleep in peace and love. Be kind,” while another added, “Wow, kindness is still alive in this unkind world.”
Similar cute videos of animals are available on the internet. A while back a video clip showing a man singing a song for his dog to fall asleep surfaced on social media. —ndtv.com
An Alberta baseball team hosted a Guinness World Record attempt involving an Australian shepherd jumping across the backs of 56 people.
The Edmonton Riverhawks, an amateur summer collegiate team in the West Coast League, hosted the record attempt for the most jumps between people by a dog in one minute during a June 14 game.
Chardonnay, a 4-year-old Australian shepherd belonging to dog trainer Jennifer Fraser, bounded across the backs of 56 fans arranged in a straight line in the outfield.
The record’s rules set a time limit of one minute, but Chardonnay managed to set the record in just 16 seconds.
Fraser said she trained Chardonnay to jump onto her back a few years ago, and her trick repertoire has since expanded.
“Jumping across backs is just one of her many skills,” Fraser said.
Firefighters and an animal control officer in San Francisco came to the rescue of a wild parrot that got its head stuck between panes of glass on a third-floor balcony.
San Francisco Animal Care & Control said on social media that Officer Mullen responded alongside the San Francisco Fire Department on Sunday when a parrot was spotted with its head stuck between two panes of glass on the balcony of an under-construction building.
Firefighters went to the roof of a building and lowered a ladder to the balcony, where they were able to slide the bird upward to free its head.
“They wrapped the bird in a towel and handed it off to Officer Mullen, who checked out the bird,” the post said. “Thankfully they were fine: their wings, legs and neck were all OK, so Officer Mullen released the bird.”
The parrot made its way to a nearby tree to rest on a branch. UPI.com
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