Griffin Johnston, 4th period, "Woman carries wounded pit bull down mountain"

            Dorrine Mendoza, writing for CNN.com, reports on a woman and her daughter finding a badly wounded dog alone in the Arizona Mountains and carrying the dog safely down the mountain to safety. The mother, Andi Davis, found the black and white pit bull badly injured from bullet wounds, and fed the dog water before making the hour long hike back down the mountain carrying the 47-pound dog along with her. Once she descended the mountain, Andi took the dog to the Arizona Humane Society where veterinarians discovered multiple bullet wounds. The dog, named Elijah by the Davis family, was successfully treated and upon seeing the daughter “responded…as if ‘they had been best friends their whole lives.’ Elijah is know apart of the Davis home.

            In another recent article, scientists, by doing various MRI scans on canines, discovered that dogs have many of the same emotions to those of humans, more specifically children. Towards the end of the first article, Elijah responded to the daughter, Jessie (and most likely the mother as well), with love and compassion. This shows that dogs not only have some of the same emotions to those of humans (love, attachment, etc.), but they also know who shows them love and who does not. Being an owner of two dogs, it is heart breaking to see a dog suffer and be neglected, and heartwarming to see him/her saved and cared for by a loving family. It is important to always treat dogs with love and affection for they experience the same feelings we do. All life, whether they feel emotions or not, is sacred.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/24/us/arizona-woman-rescues-dog/index.html?hpt=us_t5

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/10/08/neuroscientist-uses-mri-scans-to-show-that-dogs-have-emotions-similar-to-humans/?intcmp=obnetwork