Two Endearing Stories Of A "Mother's" Love~~Animal Style

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I heard these two separate stories the other night...the kind that make you go AWWWWW big time. The first took place in Miami, Florida, where a stray female dog whose "baby" somehow fell and got stuck in a storm drain. A couple who was walking near the drain at the time noticed a female dog, pacing back and forth whimpering and in distress, and kept looking down the drain. The couple called 911, and moments later a fire rescue team came...and yes...successfully were able to get the puppy out. Since the two were stray dogs they were taken to the nearby animal shelter. Here's a link to the story which also has a video of the rescue. The two, mother and pup are still being held at the shelter, but news is that people are dying to adopt them as soon as their "shelter" quarantine is over. In fact, one of the firefighters who actually did the rescue wants to adopt the puppy himself. http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/567123.html The second story involves a mother mallard duck, also in distress as somehow her six baby chicks fell in a sewer system..Here's an excerpt from that story.. (quote) [i]Trapped in a dark sewer, the six little mallard ducklings found themselves cut off and facing an uncertain future. Their only hope of seeing daylight again lay with their mother - who they had last seen more than a mile away as they were sucked into a drain. Rescue seemed impossible. Yet somehow the mother duck had managed to follow her offspring for more than a mile, apparently listening to their cheeps of distress at manhole covers as they were swept along below ground. Her incredible journey took her across a busy roundabout, countless roads, a metro rail line, a housing estate, two school playing fields and hospital grounds. The trail finally ended when she waddled on to Barrasford Close in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, where her chicks suddenly stopped. And it was there, standing over another man-hole cover, that the mother remained for the next four hours until local residents heard chirping coming from down below. They in turn launched a rescue operation, removing the manhole cover and using a child's fishing net to scoop all six from the sewer one by one and reuniting them with their mother in a paddling pool. [/i] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026801/Amazing-rescue-mother-duck-went-extra-mile.html The article above even shows a map of the long, long journey these little chicks went through and of their patient "mom" who faithfully tracked them. And they say animals are dumb! Even in the animal world a mother will do everything to protect their young ones...sometimes, in my opinion...they do a better job than some human women...don't you think?