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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Dog performs Heimlich on owner--still has to sleep on the floor

CALVERT, Md. - Toby, a 2-year-old golden retriever, saw his owner choking on a piece of fruit and began jumping up and down on the woman's chest. The dog's owner believes the dog was trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver and saved her life.

Debbie Parkhurst, 45, of Calvert told the Cecil Whig she was eating an apple at her home Friday when a piece lodged in her throat. She attempted to perform the Heimlich maneuver on herself but it didn't work. After she began beating on her chest, she said Toby noticed and got involved.

"The next think I know, Toby's up on his hind feet and he's got his front paws on my shoulders," she recalled. "He pushed me to the ground, and once I was on my back, he began jumping up and down on my chest."

That's when the apple dislodged and Toby started licking her face to keep her from passing out, she said.

"I literally have pawprint-shaped bruises on my chest. I'm still a little hoarse, but otherwise, I'm OK," Parkhurst said.

"The doctor said I probably wouldnt be here without Toby," said Parkhurst, a jewelry artist. "I keep looking at him and saying 'Youre amazing.'"

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A truly amazing story...Shows again how great golden retrievers are and that they are more intelligent than 90% of our government officials.

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Israel group about Pot on Passover: JUST SAY NO...

JERUSALEM - In bad news for its religious Jewish supporters, an Israeli pro-marijuana party announced Tuesday that pot is forbidden on Passover.

Cannabis is among the substances Jews are forbidden to consume during the week-long festival, which begins Monday, said Michelle Levine, a spokeswoman for the Green Leaf party.

Biblical laws prohibit eating leavened foods during Passover, replacing bread with flat crackers called matza. Later injunctions by European rabbis extended those rules to forbid other foods like beans and corn, and more recent rulings have further expanded the ban to include hemp seeds, which today are found in some health oils - and in marijuana.

Green Leaf is a small political party that supports the legalization of marijuana. Although it is by no means a Jewish religious authority, the group decided to warn its observant supporters away from the drug on Passover.

"You shouldn't smoke marijuana on the holiday, and if you have it in your house you should get rid of it," Levine said. The edict was first reported in The Jerusalem Post.

But not everyone needs to give up their habit for the duration of the festival. The rabbinic injunctions banning hemp were never adopted by Sephardic Jews, who come from countries in the Middle East and North Africa. That means there is no reason they can't keep smoking marijuana, Levine said, except that it remains illegal, despite her party's best efforts.

Green Leaf contested the last three national elections but never won a seat, despite gaining popularity as a protest vote. According to Levine, the party has a large number of religious supporters.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Dang...guess I'll just trash that "Puff Puff Passover" T-shirt idea.

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"All I want is to be able to sit on my front porch and not smell sheep poop"

Authorities seized a flock of sheep that had wandered away from a downtown home to graze on floral arrangements in the town cemetery.Animal neglect charges were pending Tuesday against the animals' owner, David Watts, who kept about 80 of the animals in his crumbling house in this Raleigh suburb, police said."He lives upstairs and the sheep were living downstairs," police Sgt. Robert Towell said. "He considered them pets."

Watts even walked some of the sheep around the neighborhood on a leash.

About 30 sheep were euthanized because of ailing health, said Michael Williams, director of the Wake County Animal Care, Control and Adoption Center. Police were waiting to see if additional animals would be euthanized before determining the extent of the charges.Up to 30 healthy sheep could be available for adoption, officials said.Neighbors have long complained about the sheep."All I want is to be able to sit on my front porch and not smell sheep poop," said Angie Fowler, who lives across the street.Mayor Keith Weatherly said the town council considered a proposal last year that would bar residents from keeping livestock, but it was never passed.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Ok, everybody sing together..."Secret Luuuuuhhhhverrrs...Yeah...that's what we are...Trying so hard to hide the way we feel....."

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Dog "All Hopped up on the V" hospitalized

A male dog in Chengdu, Sichuan, had to receive an intravenous drip in hospital after being given Viagra and made to mate with three female dogs on a single day.

Wang, the dog's owner, has been very busy since mating season arrived. Her dog is considered handsome, and many owners of female dogs want her dog to sire puppies with their pets. Wang can earn more than 1,000 yuan ($128) per breeding session, so in order to boost her earnings she fed her dog Viagra and made it mate with three female dogs last Sunday. The effort was apparently strenuous enough that the dog had to be taken to hospital.

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Lesson to all of you out there...ok, we know how dogs like to do the humpty dance on our legs, and this one was forced to do it 3 times in one day and it caused hospitalization, so if you want to get into the zone, that whole "erections longer than 4 hours should seek medical care" funny warning isn't so funny, now is it?

If the dog is in the hospital, where is the owner? Are his cellmates going to be given Viagra?

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Woman drops 40 cigarette a day habit, now addicted to inhalers

A SMOKER beat a 40-a-day habit — only to get hooked on plastic substitute ciggies instead.

Linda Nutt, 58, conquered her 40-year habit by using nicotine replacement inhalers.

The Nicorette Inhalators contain a cartridge impregnated with a tiny dose of nicotine.

The gadgets are designed to give smokers the sensation of having a puff while holding something cigarette-shaped in their fingers.

But three years on, mum Linda is now addicted to chewing the Inhalators’ plastic cases and gets through at least one a day.

Nicorette manufacturer Pfizer has sent her hundreds free in an attempt to help her. But now the firm has refused to give her any more, saying she must beat the addiction once and for all.

And Linda’s GP cannot prescribe any more Inhalators, which cost £6 for six, on the NHS.

Now retired Linda, of Sheldon, Birmingham, is scared she will start smoking again.

She said: “I don’t understand why Pfizer had a change of heart. It’s the plastic I’m addicted to, not the cartridge.”

Goosey's Gabbings...

Ok, so you're addicted to the plastic. Buy a couple bags of bic pens or markers, shove 'em in your mouth, and poof! You're cured!

Has this woman ever given any thought to possibly going through a 12-step program that doesn't involve something resembling a cigarette hanging from her jowls?

If she could afford 40 cigarettes a day, she can afford to get whatever she needs as far as "replica" cigarettes. Don't they still sell those candy cigarettes? Oh, wait, then she'd probably gain 100 lbs and sue the company...nevermind.

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Man Caught with 93 pounds of underwear-and it wasn't Nicole Richie!

PULLMAN, Wash. - A man was charged with theft and burglary after police said they found 93 pounds of women’s panties, brassieres and other underwear at his home.

Investigators believe Garth M. Flaherty, 24, took as many as 1,500 undergarments from apartment complex laundry rooms before he was caught, police Cmdr. Chris Tennant said.

A man was seen taking underwear from two laundry rooms Saturday, a witness recorded his license number, and Flaherty was identified from photographs, Tennant said.

Police found enough underwear in his bedroom to fill five garbage bags, Tennant said.

“He said he had a problem,” Tennant said.

Flaherty has been jailed on 12 counts of second-degree burglary and one of first-degree theft.

Police had previously received 12 reports of underwear thefts in the northeast part of town, where Washington State University is located.

“We were kind of concerned about how to match up bras and panties with victims,” Tennant said. “Based on the unique descriptions from a couple of women, we can tie him to those thefts.”

Goosey's Gabbings...

Ok, is there anyone else getting the vision from the guy from "Silence of the Lambs" when he's downstairs dancing away and...wait for it....tucks? EWWWWWWWW!!

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