Слайд 1Faithfull friends
The dog is said to be a man’s (human’s)
best friend, but it could also be said that we are a dog’s best friend.
Слайд 3Hachiko
A man brought his dog, Hachiko, to Tokyo in 1924, and
every day when he left for his teaching job, Hachiko would stand by the door and watch him go. Then at 4 p.m. it came to the Station to meet his owner. A year later Ueno died of a stroke at work, but Hachiko continued to return to the train station at 4 p.m. every single day, searching for his owner’s face. Eventually, the stationmaster made the dog a bed at the station and began leaving him bowls of food and water.
Hachiko returned to the train station every day for 10 years until he died in 1935. A year before his death, on this Station was installed a bronze statue of Hachiko.
Слайд 5Shrek
In January 2009, 10-year-old Maxim Kurguzov was playing outside his Russian
home when a fox wandered into the yard, killed one of the family chickens and then turned on the young boy. Then Shrek, the family dog, gallantly leapt in front of Maxim and fought off the fox with several bites to the head. Upon hearing the commotion, Maxim’s father, Alexey, grabbed his son and began snapping photos of his fearless dog, which engaged in a 25-minute standoff with the fox.
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Dorado
On Sept. 11, 2001, Omar Eduardo Rivera, a blind computer technician,
was working on the 71st floor of the World Trade Center with his guide dog, Dorado. When the hijacked plane hit the tower, Rivera knew it would take him a long time to evacuate the building, but he wanted his Labrador retriever to have a chance to get out so he unclipped his leash. “I thought I was lost forever — the noise and the heat were terrifying — but I had to give Dorado the chance of escape. So I unclipped his leash, ruffled his head, gave him a nudge and ordered Dorado to go,” Rivera said.
Dorado was swept downstairs by the mass of evacuating people, but a few minutes later Rivera felt the dog nuzzling his legs — Dorado had come right back to his side. Dorado and a co-worker then helped Rivera climb down 70 flights of stairs, which took nearly an hour. Soon after they escaped the tower, the building collapsed, and Rivera says he owes his life to his faithful dog.