May 31, 2007

• Animals

  The Dog in the Bible
  In the fifty-ninth Psalm you will find the verse: “They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city,”-and a little farther on you will see, “Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.” 
         There is a sad story in some of the chapters of the two books of Kings, in which you will find these dogs mentioned. There was a very proud and wicked queen, named Jezebel, and she tried to make her husband, king Ahab, do all the evil she could.

         Once Ahab wanted a piece of ground that was near his palace, so that he might have it made into a garden, and he asked the owner of it, whose name was Naboth, to sell it to him. But Naboth was not willing, because he used it for his vineyard, and because his father had given it to him before he died. Then Ahab was very angry about it, and acted just as I have seen some foolish children do when they were not pleased.

         He went into his great splendid house, and laid himself down on the bed; then he turned his face towards the wall, and when it was dinner time he would not get up or eat any thing. So his wife Jezebel asked him what was the matter; and when she found out, she told him that he need not be troubled, for she could get that vineyard for him. Then she contrived to have Naboth killed by stoning, and when he was dead king Ahab took the vineyard.

         After Ahab had taken the vineyard, God sent to him the prophet Elijah to say to him these words, “Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.” And of Jezebel he said, “The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.” 
  The word of God was fulfilled, just as he had said.

  
  City uses dog to chase away geese

  BRAMPTON, Ontario (UPI) — The City of Brampton in Canada is employing the services of a 2-year-old English springer spaniel to keep geese at bay in its public parks.
  
  The dog, Rocket, is employed by the city to annoy and chase the geese away — without hurting any of the birds — from areas that were previously minefields of droppings, the Toronto Star reported.
  
  “It makes the geese uncomfortable, but it doesn’t harm them in any way,” said Tamara Taylor, Brampton’s supervisor of animal services and Rocket’s owner.
  
  She said she opted to take the dog to Loafer’s Lake, Chinguacousy and Professor’s Lake to scare geese away rather than have the birds relocated — a process that could kill or injure the geese.
  
  “I knew he’d be fantastic at it,” she said. “He loves to chase birds because it’s his instinct.
  
  He knows he needs to be a working dog.”
  

  Police: Man used pigs to trash house

  EAGLE CREEK, Ore. (UPI) — Police were looking for an Oregon man who allegedly locked three pigs in his home hoping they would trash it after the house went into foreclosure.
  
  Detective Jim Strovink of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said Shane Lovett of Eagle Creek had been distraught about the foreclosure and joked to neighbors he had locked the pigs in his home more than a week ago without any food or water, KGW-TV in Portland, Ore., reported.
  
  Deputies responded to a neighbor’s complaint about the pigs and found the inside and outside of the house had been trashed. Thomas Getten, an animal rescue expert, said the pigs were dehydrated but otherwise healthy after he coaxed them outside.
  
  The pigs had an escape route all along through the busted back door, but refused to make the jump to the patio below the door.
  
  The sheriff’s department was asking anyone with information about Lovett’s whereabouts to contact them.

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