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Dog adopted by reservation students is shot
The heartwarming story of an injured stray dog taken in by students at a Catholic school on the Crow Reservation in Montana came to an abrupt end when someone drove onto school grounds and fired six shots at the dog.
Named Mission, the female Rottweiler mix — who’d been nursed back to health after limping onto the grounds of Pretty Eagle Catholic Academy in St. Xavier six years ago — was fatally wounded.
Students are still grieving her death, more than two months ago, according to the Billings Gazette.
“We’ve had dogs come and go, but never one that stuck around like she did,” said Garla Williamson, the principal at the private school for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. “She adopted us, and we adopted her.”
The shooting is being investigated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and a small reward is being offered by the school for information leading to an arrest.
Samantha Stoddard said she was watching television and heard through an open window at her campus residence what she heard shots, then heard Mission yelp in pain. She ran outside and saw a white sedan parked at a cattle guard near the entrance to the school property.
Two more shots were fired as she ran to the dog.
She found Mission collapsed on the ground and helped carry the dog to the porch of her residence.
“She was trying to die, and it was really painful,” she said. With the dog sufferering and no veterinarian, a staff member got a gun and put her down.
Several days passed while staff struggled with how to tell students what had happened.
Stoddard said Mission is buried near her residence, and the children have been making regular visits to the grave.
“It’s turned into a little shrine,” she said.
Posted by jwoestendiek May 25th, 2012 under Muttsblog.
Tags: academy, adopted, animals, bureau of indian affairs, catholic, crow, crow reservation, dog, dogs, grief, injured, investigation, mission, mix, montana, mourning, pets, pretty eagle, private, rescued, reservation, rottweiler, school, shooting, shot, shrine, st. xavier, stray, students, taken in
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Cat and Crow: From video to childrens book
Between a YouTube video gone viral, the Oprah Winfrey Show, the National Geographic Channel and Animal Planet, the playful antics of Cassie the cat and Moses the crow have been viewed my millions.
Now, the special friendship between members of two species that are normally mortal enemies is the subject of a childrens book, coming out next month.
“Cat and Crow: An Amazing Friendship” tells story of the four-year relationship between a stray kitten and the crow who befriended her in the yard of Ann and Wally Collito in Attleboro, Mass.
Conveying a hopeful message of love and peace, the book was written by Lisa Fleming and pubished by Collage Books, Inc. It is aimed at ages 3 and up.
Fleming, a former newspaper columnist and freelance writer, first saw Cassie and Moses on YouTube. She contacted the Collitos. They encouraged her to tell the story, and gave her access to their collection of photos and videos.
The book is illustrated by Anna Marie Domink-Harris, and includes contributions from naturalist Bernd Heinrich and Nancy Peterson, cat programs manager for the Humane Society of the United States.
It is scheduled for release on Oct. 16 — National Feral Cat Day.
To learn more about “Cat and Crow,” visit the book’s Facebook page
Posted by jwoestendiek September 12th, 2011 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: animals, ann collito, attleboro, book, cassie, cat, cat and crow, cats, childrens book, collage books, crow, friends, lisa fleming, moses, pets, unlikely friends, video, viral, wally collito, youtube
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Unlikely Friends: The cat and the crow
Cassie the cat and Moses the crow just showed up one day in the yard of Ann and Wallace Collito, a Massachussetts couple, and stayed there.
Their antics, videotaped by the elderly couple, have drawn more than 5 million views on YouTube. The relationship lasted four years, until Moses flew off.
“Maybe he got a girlfriend, we don’t know what happened to the crow,” said Wallace. His wife, Ann, has since passed away, but Wallace still treasures Cassie the cat.
The crow-cat relationship was featured on “Unlikely Animal Friends,” a National Geographic Channel special that aired Saturday night.
Posted by jwoestendiek September 28th, 2009 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: animals, ann collito, bird, birds, cassie, cat, cats, crow, friends, kitten, moses, national geographic channel, television, tv, unlikely animal friends, video, wallace collito
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