Miracle Dog Survives Gas Chamber

[bulldogz4eva]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8367053/miracle-dog-survives-gas-chamber

A beagle put in a gas chamber at an animal pound in the US somehow survived the ordeal with its tail wagging.

PHOTOS: Beagle beats gas chamber death

The five-year-old dog, named Daniel, was sent to his death along with 18 other dogs at the animal shelter in Florence, Alabama, on October 3, ABC News reports.

But when animal control officers opened the gas chamber they found Daniel waiting for them at the door, while the other dogs lay dead around it.

Karen and Michael Rudolph, who run a rescue home for Schnauzers in Tennessee, took Daniel in temporarily after hearing about his miracle survival.

Mrs Rudolph said vets were amazed that the gas chamber had not even made Daniel sick after she took him in for a check-up.

"It was almost as though angels pulled him out of there and he didn't even breathe the gas," she said.

The dog is currently living with a volunteer from another charity group, Eleventh Hour Rescue, which is trying to find a permanent home for him.

But Eleventh Hour Rescue president Linda Schiller is positive it will find a home, with more than 200 people emailing a local newspaper which first reported on the bizarre story to say they were keen to adopt the beagle.

[The Ark]

What a horrendous experience for that poor dog to have endured.

Hopefully the rest of his life will be much nicer.

[Crysti_Lei]

http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-want-death-defying-beagle-named-daniel-164236178.html

Hundreds Want Death-Defying Beagle Named Daniel

Hundreds of people are vying to adopt Daniel, a 5-year-old miracle beagle who sniffed at death and came out of an Alabama gas chamber wagging its tail.

The pooch was sent to his doom along with 18 other dogs at an overcrowded animal shelter in Florence, Ala., on Oct. 3.

But when the animal control officer in charge of the operation returned to the locked chamber he found the dog waiting at the door, wagging its tail. The other dogs were dead.

His amazing survival has attracted several charitable groups to come to his aid to make sure he isn't sent back into the gas chamber. He found a temporary home in Tennessee with Karen Rudolph, who runs Schnauzer Savers Rescue of West Tennessee with her husband Michael.

Rudolph dubbed him Daniel, inspired by the biblical story of Daniel, who walked out of a lion's den unscathed. Eleventh Hour Rescue, which brought Daniel to New Jersey with the help of Pilots and Paws, gave the dog the last name "Milagro," meaning miracle in Spanish.

When Rudolph took Daniel Milagro to see her veterinarian, he received a clean bill of health.

"Amazingly, not only did he survive the gas chamber which is very rare … he was not sick," Rudolph said. "It was almost as though angels pulled him out of there and he didn't even breathe the gas."

At 20 pounds, Daniel is underweight and his immune system is slightly compromised, but otherwise he is in good health, Eleventh Hour Rescue president Linda Schiller said. Schiller's group is trying to find a home for Daniel.

The beagle is now staying with Eleventh Hour volunteer Jill Pavlik until the organization finds an appropriate home for him.

Schiller isn't worried about finding a new home for Daniel, who is highly adoptable due to his celebrity status. In fact, just an hour after the Star Ledger newspaper first covered the story, Schiller had received over 200 emails from readers interested in Daniel, and the attention hasn't slowed down since.

But she hopes at least some of the applicants will be interested in adopting other dogs.

"We have dogs that are just as wonderful as him that were on death row, but didn't walk out of a gas chamber," Schiller said. "They're happy and they're wagging their tales and ready to be adopted."

[Crumpolo]

I cant help but think of Poppins from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the dog that never dies.

[Maxiewolf]

Why did he have to "die" for 200 people to suddenly want to give him a home?

[huskies4life88]

Why did he have to "die" for 200 people to suddenly want to give him a home?

exactly what i was thinking......and let me guess after the people adopt the "wonder dog" and the hype goes away.....he will end up back in the same situation

[Rozzie]

Why on earth would you assume that?????

[huskies4life88]

its taken an apparent miracle for anyone to want this poor lil fella..........

[raz]

Oh for goodness sake the dog has escaped death row and 200 homes have put their hand up for him but all you can do is focus on the negative.

Good on him - his time obviously wasnt up.

[Florise]

let me guess after the people adopt the "wonder dog" and the hype goes away.....he will end up back in the same situation

What, back in the gas chamber?

[Rozzie]

Not a miracle... publicity. There should be more of it.

[huskies4life88]

no not gas chamber, back into rescue i didnt word it right soz

[Janba]

no not gas chamber, back into rescue i didnt word it right soz

He wasn't in rescue but the equivalent of our pounds.

He could just as easily end up in a good forever home. It seems from the reports that he now out of pound and in the hands of a rescue group who one would hope would vet their potential adopters.

Edited October 29, 2011 by Janba

[di_dee1]

Publicity works very well. Poor dog having to go through that.

[Her Majesty Dogmad]

He is a gorgeous dog, it's a tragedy that he would have lost his life and a tragedy that so many lose their lives needlessly. Often the only issue has been crap owners, rather than the dogs having issues.

It is all about publicity and many rescue groups simply have no spare funds to get advertising. It's the advertising and publicity that has brought 200 potential owners for him. Thank God. I'm sure it will also help other dogs so this has saved more than 1 dog.

[sandgrubber]

He is a gorgeous dog, it's a tragedy that he would have lost his life and a tragedy that so many lose their lives needlessly. Often the only issue has been crap owners, rather than the dogs having issues.

It is all about publicity and many rescue groups simply have no spare funds to get advertising. It's the advertising and publicity that has brought 200 potential owners for him. Thank God. I'm sure it will also help other dogs so this has saved more than 1 dog.

Publicity can do a lot, but there are limits. If there are more dogs than good homes, the outcomes are going to be messy (bad home) or sad (pts) or messy that goes sad (escaped, run over, impounded, pts, or production of more pups that have a poor chance of finding a good home). I have lots of beefs with animal lib types, but they're right about the necessity to limit the total number of puppies born.

Edited October 30, 2011 by sandgrubber

[Fit for a King]

Err am I the only one that has an issue in the way they euthanise....it can't be peaceful...dogs choking, frenzied, trying to get out...horrendous....

[Sam the man]

Err am I the only one that has an issue in the way they euthanise....it can't be peaceful...dogs choking, frenzied, trying to get out...horrendous....

Me too. It gives me the creeps thinking about it.

[lovemyrottie]

Err am I the only one that has an issue in the way they euthanise....it can't be peaceful...dogs choking, frenzied, trying to get out...horrendous....

i'm with you, it actually makes me pretty said to think about how they would've felt in there the poor things

[Swizzlestick]

Err am I the only one that has an issue in the way they euthanise....it can't be peaceful...dogs choking, frenzied, trying to get out...horrendous....

i'm with you, it actually makes me pretty said to think about how they would've felt in there the poor things

Especially when they open the lid and put more live dogs on top of the already dead ones and start the process all over again. Poor little things. Sometimes they put cats in with the dogs too apparently.