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Lucky dog! Adrift pooch is plucked from Pacific isle

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Lucky dog! Adrift pooch is plucked from Pacific isle - Yahoo! News
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Lucky dog! Adrift pooch is plucked from Pacific isle

LOS ANGELES - Snickers the Sea Dog is barely more than a pup, but he's already an old salt.

The 8-month-old pooch spent three months adrift in the Pacific with his owners and a parrot until their 48-foot sailboat ran aground in December on tiny Fanning Island, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. Snickers and Gulliver had to be left behind as their owners hitched a ride on a cargo vessel.

Then in March, the SOS was sent out in a boating journal that the orphaned critters were to be destroyed on Fanning, one of 33 scattered coral atolls that make up the remote island nation of Kiribati.

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Airlines, moved by the dog's survival story, has given the go-ahead on flying the animal for free to the mainland, said Peter Forman, a Hawaii-based airlines historian who helped negotiate Snickers' transport.
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Wow, Hawaiian Airlines...you had to be negotiated just to fly a dog for free? Way to make a great sacrifice. :roll1:
 
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Baurile said the pets were left in the care of islanders.
"They don't have the same concept of taking care of pets," Baurile said.
Efforts to contact the Merrows on Friday were unsuccessful. Joslin said he has been unable to contact the pair, and Baurile said she believes the Hawaiian Humane Society never tried to reach them.
"The Merrows got to the point where they had to move on with their lives," said Forman, who is friends with Robby and Lorraine Coleman, a couple with a sailboat off Fanning Island who originally talked to a boating journal about Snickers.
"The Merrows basically signed a release of ownership of the dog," Forman said.
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I don't get it, how long, exactly did they leave the dog with the islanders? What the hell kept them from returning for the dog if they knew where they left it, which the article seems to imply? This whole section here is confusing. If they "signed a release" it doesn't sound like they gave a shit what happened to the dog. And what the hell does "they dont have the same concept of taking care of pets" mean? I hate this sort of writing, too much vagueness.
 
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might not be as lucky as you think... dude wants his dog:

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something about needing a hat...
 
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OCBuckWife;1145242; said:
I don't get it, how long, exactly did they leave the dog with the islanders? What the hell kept them from returning for the dog if they knew where they left it, which the article seems to imply? This whole section here is confusing. If they "signed a release" it doesn't sound like they gave a shit what happened to the dog. And what the hell does "they dont have the same concept of taking care of pets" mean? I hate this sort of writing, too much vagueness.
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If you live on a coral reef in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you probably aren't going to have much food to share w/ Fido-the islanders aren't giving up their protein for some white people's cocker spaniel.......
 
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stxbuck;1145338; said:
If you live on a coral reef in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you probably aren't going to have much food to share w/ Fido-the islanders aren't giving up their protein for some white people's cocker spaniel.......
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Considering it seems to be a vacation spot, albeit somewhat isolated and out of the way, I'm not sure this assessment of how little protein may or may not be available is a bit exaggerated. In fact, if it's a damn vacation spot, why didn't they give the dog to someone also on vacation? According to "history and culture" page one on that website a Norwegian cruise line stops by!

*The Nowegian Star visits once a week.
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OCBuckWife;1145353; said:
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Considering it seems to be a vacation spot, albeit somewhat isolated and out of the way, I'm not sure this assessment of how little protein may or may not be available is a bit exaggerated. In fact, if it's a damn vacation spot, why didn't they give the dog to someone also on vacation? According to "history and culture" page one on that website a Norwegian cruise line stops by!

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Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) does whatever they can to not go there because of the cost of fuel. NCL was supposed to go there each trip because they need to make a "foreign" stop so they can run their on-the-sea gambling, but they usually "don't make it" there. I went on a trip in 2004 where we were supposed to make a 3-4 hour stop on Fanning Island as part of a 7-day interisland cruise. We got about halfway down and suddenly developed "engine trouble" and had to turn back to Hawaii. Funny thing was, the engine trouble wasn't serious enough to keep us from finishing the cruise around the rest of the islands and in fact spend an extra day in Maui. NCL doesn't go there anymore because their ships are now US-flagged ships and no longer require a foreign port stop.

By the way, Fanning Island is far from a "vacation" spot. There is next to nothing there and the island is very, very small small and the highest point is only 10 feet above sea level.

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OCBuckWife;1145242; said:
I don't get it, how long, exactly did they leave the dog with the islanders? What the hell kept them from returning for the dog if they knew where they left it, which the article seems to imply? This whole section here is confusing. If they "signed a release" it doesn't sound like they gave a shit what happened to the dog. And what the hell does "they dont have the same concept of taking care of pets" mean? I hate this sort of writing, too much vagueness.
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To be honest, you put me out to sea for more than a couple weeks, I'm eating the fuckin' parrot and tying a note to the dogs collar and hoping his corpse washes ashore to get help.
 
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