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― f ath, Monday, 23 August 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

eeek

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

A thread about Alba?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"doggone it"

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

In order to advance their evolution, I think we should start cutting off....

I actually can't finish the sentence.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, that dog looks like it eats souls.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Damnit you jerks, be happy for mutant doggie!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

if i were producing that segment, and one of the writers had shown me "doggone it," i wouldn't have said, "no, think of something else" or "nah, too cutesy," i would have stared at them cold and hard and then slapped them without flinching.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

They should race him against that upright-walking monkey.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor dog, kinda looks like a T-Rex now.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- At the Stringfellow house, Faith walks.
In fact, Faith -- the dog -- walks and runs just about everywhere, despite being born with only two working legs.
She walks upright, like a human being.
Faith is not just a name for this 7-month-old mixed breed.
"We had faith she would walk again," said 14-year-old Laura Stringfellow. "We had faith in her. And that's her name."
The Stringfellow family in Oklahoma City believed a disabled puppy should have a chance at a normal life.
They worked in shifts nursing the puppy through her early weeks.
They put her on a skateboard to show her how movement feels.
They watched her learn to roll from side to side at 5-weeks-old to running full sprints now at 7 months.
"I knew she would be special," said mother Jude Stringfellow.
"Maybe people will say, 'Hey, I don't have to have a perfect dog, but I can get one that is happy.' And Faith is certainly happy."
The family adopted Faith when the original owners were going to put her to sleep. The owners feared the congenital disability would leave her immobile.
"No dog deserves to die," said 17-year-old Reuben Stringfellow. "She was a very normal little puppy; a real strong and normal puppy with two legs. She was a cripple as a puppy, but I wanted to hold it, pet it, feed it and take care of it."
Faith can maintain perfect balance and sits on her haunches. She has a smaller, useless front limb that has atrophied and is scheduled to be amputated.
"I thought she would crawl the rest of her life," said Reuben Stringfellow. "I'm real proud of her."
Slightly taller than 3 feet, Faith can be an imposing creature to fellow pets.
Cats scurry under furniture when the Godzilla-like chow and Labrador mix darts up to play.
"The pets treat her like any other animal, but the cats are scared of her," said Laura Stringfellow.
Faith has a loving fascination with fire stations and firefighters, often sprinting at the site of either.
For fun, Faith takes walks with her family, tussles with the other family pets, chases the cats and plays tug-of-war with a sock.
A corgi helped goad her into walking by yapping at her from across a room and at times nipping her heels.
She joins a family filled with two other dogs, three cats, a couple of hamsters and a snake or two.
"She's a rough-and-tumble type of dog," said Jude Stringfellow. "We call her tyrannosaurus rex because she'll stand up to get the height advantage and bite on their necks or dive to bite their heels. I think our corgi regrets showing her how to herd and nip."
On a recent trip near a pond, Faith experienced her first swimming lesson when she jumped in the water.
"She was in over her head and looked like a mermaid," said Jude Stringfellow. "We pulled her out like a marlin; she dried off and jumped right back in."
Faith repeatedly jumped into the water, trying desperately but unsuccessfully to swim.
"There was this moment after the fourth or fifth time we pulled her out, when she went too far. She gave us a sad look and realized she couldn't do it."
But there's not much else Faith can't do.
She likes moving pillows to the couch before pouncing on it and loves attention, often whining until someone pets her.
Faith is housebroken and stands by the door with a whimper when she needs to be let outside. She uses the bathroom standing up, and rests on her legs to eat.
"She plays hard and she sleeps hard," said Jude Stringfellow. "And she's a spoiled dog. We call her the diva because sometimes she won't perform when we want her to."
Faith's story has circled the globe through stories in Canadian, Swedish, Mexican, French and Dutch tabloid newspapers. A story appeared recently in the National Enquirer and the British Broadcasting Corp.
The family would like Faith to be trained to help disabled people, but they will not give her away.

"We'd like for her to be an inspiration," said Jude Stringfellow. "I've prayed and told the Lord I want Faith to work for Him."

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.yourethemannowdog.com/

― dean? (deangulberry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ARRRGGGGHHHHHHH

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so proud to be from Oklahoma, where God has graced us with banning anti-war metaphorical films as pornography and upright walking two legged dogs.

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Cats scurry under furniture when the Godzilla-like chow and Labrador mix darts up to play.

(I will admit that in the first picture it looks like the dog is doing the Roger Rabbit and therefore isn't quite as creepy, only that mental image is REALLY CREEPY so I'm right back at "eeek".)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so fucking depressed right now I could die.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

alternate caption suggestion:

"walking tall"
"bi-pedal pup"
"give a dog a bone, in fact give him two bones covered in muscle tissue"
"get it away from me"

― f ath, Monday, 23 August 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

omg

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's sort of cute and inspirational (except for the grotesque mutant arm pointing off in the wrong direction).

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Who on ilx doesn't suffer from that?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

But, you know, I for one congratulate this inspirational disabled canine, seriously. Not as much as the woman with no arms I saw last year sitting on the sidewalk, the woman who packed and unwrapped a pack of cigarettes, removed one, lit it, and smoked it, all with her feet, but like yeah, go doggie.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

If she can roll her own cigs with her feet, it should be easy to find some work on weekends.

― dean? (deangulberry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

My face is an uncomfortable scrunch right now. I feel so icky. That is a thing that should not be. Two words: sodium pentobarbital.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Why? It seems OK to me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"what the fuck is that"

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX IN FULL OF CANINE EUGENICISTS SHOCKAH!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, beastie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That is one cool dog. Really. Anyone who thinks it should be put down is wrong. It looks so happy!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

RIGHT ON!!! Yay happy puppy!!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

they should have named the dog buford pusser

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

come to think of it i am so naming my next dog joe don baker

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think i can handle this. i love happy dogs, and that dog looks as happy as can be, but...

seriously. i dunno.

xpost

perfect name.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

does it have some kind of useless flipper leg or do my eyes deceive me?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Or you could just call the dog Mitchell.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

To clarify: I wouldn't have him put down *now.* Clearly he's done okay for himself, thanks to some *very* caring people who gave him a *lot* of special attention. I would not be that person. I would be the regular, average person who would pass that dog over for a dog more suited to doing regular doggie things.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, has she been spayed? Because I've just thought to myself "what if she went into heat and another dog tried to mount her JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR BRAIN SON?????????"

― EVIL IMAGINATION (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

somebody please photoshop the dog drumming for def leppard.

― f ath, Monday, 23 August 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this dog is actually inspirational in that she can act as an example of clearly not giving a sh*t about the cards she was dealt - I mean look at her face! And I don't mean as an inspiration to just amputees or people born without legs or whatever - this is the poster-animal for ignorance/bliss.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with that. I don't understand the cruel attitude towards this dog.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's what I meant. Except I didn't do it so eloquently.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the "Godzilla-like" adjective from the article sums up a large portion of why people are having an adverse reaction to the dog (I assume the rest is "Doggone It!" backlash that actually has nothing to do with the animal herself.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

She was in over her head and looked like a mermaid...

What the FUCK kind of mermaid are they talking about?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The kind that looks like a drowning dog with no front legs, I guess.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope she gets lots of treats for walking around like that all day and not just doing it as a trick.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This isn't shit. What about the dog who learned how to walk on its front legs, doing a handstand while walking down stairs?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

LEAVE THE DOG ALONE!

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/brew/image/1999/apr/abbott408.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What about that one dog that appeared on Letterman that could go to the store and buy a six-pack of beer?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

somebody please photoshop jim abbott drumming for def leppard.

― f ath, Monday, 23 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

These things are all over Ghana! I'm making a killing in showbusiness, PAs, filling reception jobs and providing companions for the lonely.

― L.I.A.R. (Barima), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

and what does the dog do?

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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Right on, alisa. It's called tolerance, you fuckers.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tolerance doesn't apply to gods.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Out of curiosity, do the freaked-out-by-dog folks have similar reactions to messy-looking humans?

In my case, it's a combination of "I don't like dogs" and "I really don't like dogs that look like dog/snake hybrid killing machines".

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, great. And let's just tolerate the walking dead, too. Look, I suppose that if you were walking down the sidewalk all high on LSD and this pup ran across someone's yard to greet you, you'd just pet it on its head and think it was the greatest thing in the world. Me, on the other hand...

X-post

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG "And let's just tolerate the walking dead, too." WTF???????

Did I miss a critical news story?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Have CNN excised the freaky T-rex-arm of the poor doggy?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Götterdämmerung!!!

There's a dylsexic joke in there but I ain't a gonna make it. Quit freaking on the dog you band of inwardly malformed fiends or Jeanne and Alisa and I are going to release the hounds on you.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this topic has the highest ratio of posts that have made me piss laughing that I've ever encountered.

Also, in the first picture it's totally doing the Flair Strut. If my dog could do that I'd probably tolerate the odd demonic appendage.

― Fergal (Ferg), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The hounds with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is very VICE magazine circa 2002.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Where's my check?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

where's momus?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not like people have much control over what freaks them out. Have some tolerance for the freaked-out among us, you fuckers.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

my initial reaction was the standard recoil. Then I rememebered that I'm actually deformed myself (right ear). Cripes, I feel like shit.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

omg R. Kelly is singing "Leap Of Faith" on my stereo JUST THIS SECOND!!! WOOOAAAHHH!!!!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

someone should just photoshop a trucker hat and an eyepatch on this dog while it's barking out the window of a car about how it hates kill bill without having seeing it and then you guys can just hunt this thing down and cut a scarlet letter into it with your bared fangs.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i have four nipples (two regular and two vestigial/half-formed ones that look like moles) and a misshapen ear myself.

Have CNN excised the freaky T-rex-arm of the poor doggy?
-- Markelby (boyincorduro...), August 24th, 2004.

looks more like a velociraptor in my opinion. about the same size as one in real life too.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

actally i do see the t-rex thing now, my bad...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, is this going to be a thread where we all start talking about our physical deformities? If that's the case, the only way this thread could possibly get any better is if someone performs sodomy with this dog on Gear's couch.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"better"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"butter"

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

PARKAY DAMN YOU

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

performs sodomy

I love this expression. You stand up and bow when your done?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

No, you bow in the midst of your performance.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Why don't they just have that fake arm removed? Do you think he needs it for balance?

I've seen dogs with only three legs running around, but not 2. Though I have seen a dog with only the front two legs and wheels in the back. Or maybe I just saw that in Babe, Pig and the City and made myself believe I've also seen it in real life... hmmm...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

They already amputated the vestigial arm. The smaller pics are older than the larger ones, which clearly show a lock of floppy.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

WARNING PEDANTRY AHEAD:

that arm was underdeveloped, not vestigial!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Retroactively vestigial, considering!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You may be on to something.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Why did they get it to walk on 2 legs instead of giving it wheels in the first place? Wouldn't the wheels be a lot easier?

― Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZT!! BZZZZZT!! (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40052000/jpg/_40052338_faith_203_scopfeatures.jpg

It's getting out of hand, *ahem*, so to speak.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Cats scurry under furniture when the Godzilla-like [spencer] chow [...] darts up to play.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The two-legged dog was on the front of the Daily Mail today.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Funniest ILX post ever.

I can't believe no one's mentioned the 2nd pic says "thousands more may flee" at the bottom.

Also, opinions: if this dog were male with a big ol' wang waving around in front as he's running, would CNN have blurred it out?

― wetmink (wetmink), Monday, 13 September 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure I can see a clitoris in that second pic.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 September 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, suddenly my appetite's gone.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 September 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40052000/jpg/_40052338_faith_203_scopfeatures.jpg http://www.uoregon.edu/~dogsci/retall/Paleoclasses/trex.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 September 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

discuss the two-legged upright-walking dog

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― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 September 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

discuss the two-legged upright-walking dog

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― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 13 September 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

now that's being unfair to the dog.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 September 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

at least it didn't sign on to star in 'twister'.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 13 September 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"AT 3' TALL, fAITH FRIGHTENS THE CATS1!1!1!!@#"

I never read this thread before. It feels like the front part of my brain is all crinkled up MAINLY BECAUS_E OF YOU, PERRY YOU SICK FUX0R.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 13 September 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

A winner is me(?)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 September 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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― f ath, Monday, 13 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet those little mina birds shutted the fuck up when they looked out through the glass and saw Lucifer incarnate looking back at them.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't get enough of the 2LURD.

Video:

http://www.localnews8.com/video/941067.html?video=YHI

― wetmink (wetmink), Monday, 20 September 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

somebody please photoshop the dog drumming for def leppard.

someone still needs to do this btw

― i am the small cat (HI DERE), Monday, 22 September 2008 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/1vj1DPV.gif

― pplains, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:25 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRR9EuPTNs8

― del griffith, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 03:20 (nine years ago)

do you ever just see something and wish Norm MacDonald was around to give you his take on it

― del griffith, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 03:22 (nine years ago)

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