Dog adrift on ice saved from Baltic Sea

A dog was found adrift on ice in the Baltic Sea and was saved by a Polish research team. Read the article in USA Today here.

Photo: Krzysztof Mystkowski

The president of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, has sent a letter to the crew who saved the dog to thank them and to say quote "Acts like this make our world a better place" and I can just agree with him :)

A poem to a dear friend...

BEYOND THE RAINBOW
Author Unknown
As much as I loved the life we had and all the times we played,
I was so very tired and knew my time on earth would fade.
I saw a wondrous image then of a place that's trouble-free
Where all of us can meet again to spend eternity.

I saw the most beautiful Rainbow, and on the other side
Were meadows rich and beautiful -- lush and green and wide!
And running through the meadows as far as the eye could see
Were animals of every sort as healthy as could be!
My own tired, failing body was fresh and healed and new
And I wanted to go run with them, but I had something left to do.

I needed to reach out to you, to tell you I'm alright
That this place is truly wonderful, then a bright Glow pierced the night.
'Twas the Glow of many Candles shining bright and strong and bold
And I knew then that it held your love in its brilliant shades of gold.

For although we may not be together in the way we used to be,
We are still connected by a cord no eye can see.
So whenever you need to find me, we're never far apart
If you look beyond the Rainbow and listen with your heart.

No Pet Therapy course...

As I wrote earlier (here) I had been planning to do a Pet Therapy course at the University this spring, but they called me this morning to tell me that the course had been cancelled. Apparently not enough people had applied. I still don't understand why 1st - you had to have a university degree from before and 2nd - why the course was so expensive (€1600). Anyway there is nothing I can do about that so it is just to keep studying by myself. My test-object Max is a very good dog and endure my training with him with patients. I actually thinks he likes it and even though I'm only in Naples once a week he listens much more to me now than his real owner. My ultimate goal is to stop him from killing all the cats that crosses his path - he is a real serial-killer when it comes to cats. Wish me good luck...!