stray ecuadorian dog follows swedish athletes through mud and water during a race after being fed a
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rockin that resevoir dogs pose [I]heh heh heh[/I]
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[quote]Team Peak Performance says that after six days, they "crossed the finish line with 5 members instead of 4 as the 12th top team in the world."[/quote]
[quote]After a stray dog in Ecuador met a team of Swedish adventure athletes, he grew so attached to the squad that he ran for miles and swam along to keep up with them. Now Arthur the dog is world-famous — and it all started with a meatball.
Sweden's Peak Performance team was in Ecuador this month to compete in the Adventure Racing World Championship, in which athletes hike, kayak, and bike during a 430-mile endurance race through the Amazonian rain forest. It's the kind of race where athletes try to keep moving day and night (see an example).
Just before starting one stage, the team's Mikael Lindnord made friends with a dog, sharing a meatball with him. Lindnord thought that would be the end of it — but then the dog followed him, and essentially forced his way onto the team.[/quote]
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[quote]"The organization gave the advice not to bring dog Arthur out on the last leg — a dog in the kayak didn't seem like a great idea — and the team was going to follow this advice.
"Mike, Simon, Staffan and Karen put their kayaks down in the water and set off, but Arthur refused to be left and started swimming. This was too heartbreaking for the team, and Mikael helped Arthur up in the kayak. This led to standing ovations from everyone on the shore, seeing the five (!) team mates set off."[/quote]
[quote]After some uncertainty, Lindnord managed to work out a way to bring his new best friend back to live with his family in Sweden: He and his teammates opened a Paypal account and mounted a Twitter campaign to raise money to bring Arthur home. They've also had him treated for a nasty wound to his back that he had suffered months before they met in him the rainforest.
A recent Facebook post thanking people for their help and good wishes — and telling them that Arthur was safe and sound in Sweden — led one fan to write, "Thank you for sharing this story with the world. We need to witness more happy endings and acts of compassion."[/quote]
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This is why I love dogs, He was quite happy to follow them for miles all because they gave him a meatball.
Was it a Swedish meatball?
This makes me think that Swedish athletes keep meatballs on hand during exercise like it's Gatorade
-misread-
[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;46580148]After reading the thread calling for a ban on eating cats and dogs in Sweden I can think of only one reason they fed it[/QUOTE]
that was the swiss, not the swedes
Oh woops. My bad
Of course it was a meatball :v:
What was in the meatball i wonder?
[QUOTE=rewkasu;46580338]What was in the meatball i wonder?[/QUOTE]
love and swedish ingenuity
A little bit of compassion goes a long way.
People like to talk shit about dogs and bring up a load of different stuff. Breed aggression, lack of affection and other things. But dogs aren't born with any of those issues, they're things that have a cause. The same thing goes for people.
It warms my heart to know that one of them adopted him as well. I don't quite know if it's weird, but I always feel as good helping out strays as I do when I help out homeless people and people in need.
[QUOTE=fixture;46580397][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXWJGhWPuzk[/media][/QUOTE]
emailed to my mum
[QUOTE=camper182 V2;46580723]emailed to my mum[/QUOTE]
But you never call, do you?
Read about this in some danish news paper last week, that dog has some crazy endurance, man.
[QUOTE=camper182 V2;46580723]emailed to my mum[/QUOTE]
Wtf, you email your mother?
[QUOTE=Bucketboy;46585801]Wtf, you email your mother?[/QUOTE]
Found the basement dweller
Arthur has balls to go through all of this.
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;46580450]You'd never see a cat do something like this.[/QUOTE]
Idk, cats are pretty dumb as well.
[QUOTE=Satansick;46585914]Idk, cats are pretty dumb as well.[/QUOTE]
This dog just successfully immigrated to Sweden. Thousands of people fail that every year. This dog is evidently smarter than people.
[QUOTE=rewkasu;46580338]What was in the meatball i wonder?[/QUOTE]
tolerance and progressive thinking
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