(Found them both on CNN.COM)
One was about cancer-sniffing canines. That's right. Scientists are finding that dogs can detect cancer better than some kinds of high-tech machines.
More research, as they always say, needs to be done. But the day may come when dogs will be used to smell you for cancerous tumors or moles.
Makes sense to me. After all, dogs have a sense of smell hundreds (thousands?) of times more keen than ours.
Second piece I noticed about dogs was from Istanbul, Turkey. Hundreds of dogs (many of them golden retrievers) are roaming the streets there. Once they were puppies and had good homes. But now, bigger and not as cute, their owners have left them to fend for themselves in Istanbul.
They don't have a chance making it on their own because they're so used to being taken care of. As one of the women in the story noted, "All a Golden wants is food, love and affection."
Many of the dogs, thankfully, are being adopted by an agency in Atlanta, Ga., which is helping them find good homes.
Excellent program!
I love dogs. Some dogs are better than some humans. Hate that so many of our four-legged friends are being abandoned in Turkey.
Shame on their Istanbul owners!
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