Animal segments

[Victoria81]

Anyone have a favorite? Annoyed with these segments? Etc.?

I always believed Nova the Cat, wasn't the same cat the owner just wanted to believed he came back :O Maybe that's just me.......

I like the episode where the pig was stopping traffic lol

[scc1222]

is that the cat found by the owner's workplace,that she lost when traveling cross country?
I'm on the fence on that one,bc I did have a cat i was giving to my gma 50 miles away,and he got lost once we got there.upon returning home,he beat me into the garage! he'd managed to ride up in the engine somehow,without getting hurt.so i think it's possible this cat may have done the same,and been hiding that way.i know it's not likely..still possible,though.

[amandab1234]

Originally Posted by Victoria81

Anyone have a favorite? Annoyed with these segments? Etc.?

I always believed Nova the Cat, wasn't the same cat the owner just wanted to believed he came back :O Maybe that's just me.......

I like the episode where the pig was stopping traffic lol

I enjoyed the story about the dog who saved a man from drowning. The man was deaf/mute..i agree with u about Nova... there are a million black cats out there n even tho that woman claimed he had the same white spot as Nova, another hundred cats could've had the same white patch. Wasn't too fond of the family who had the two dogs Lady & Wolfka. .they were more concerned about Lady n didnt seem to care too much about Wolfka

[Spark Of Spirit]

I'm fairly certain it was Nova. Stray cats don't usually let you pick them up, pat them, or bring them into your home. Try it sometime.

Lost animals have been known to return, so it's not that crazy to think he made it all the way there.

[Victoria81]

Originally Posted by amandab1234

I enjoyed the story about the dog who saved a man from drowning. The man was deaf/mute..i agree with u about Nova... there are a million black cats out there n even tho that woman claimed he had the same white spot as Nova, another hundred cats could've had the same white patch. Wasn't too fond of the family who had the two dogs Lady & Wolfka. .they were more concerned about Lady n didnt seem to care too much about Wolfka

UGH, me too!!! I hated when Robert Stack would say, "Especially Lady, their favorite pet"

[1990 UM fan]

- Boo, Oscar and Ringo, the 2 dogs and cat that saved their owner's lives or stranger's lives
- Mia and Shadow, 2 dogs that detected illnesses in their owners
- Lady and Nova, a dog and a cat that traveled long distances to come back to their owners
- The cancer-detecting dogs episode
- Harley, the dog who helped Victoria Doroshenko with her epilepsy
- Eagle, the cadaver dog
- Norman, the dog who rescued a teen girl from drowning in a river

[MegtheEgg86]

I actually thought the segment about the wild broncos in Nevada was really interesting. The explanation about the supposed shooters being connected to cattle ranching was a very plausible one, but I still don't understand at all why so many (weren't there like hundreds?) were found dead in one place. That always gave me pause--it just didn't seem like something that could've been intentional. I always wondered about the nature of that investigation and how thorough it was. I certainly don't doubt people shoot feral horses, but I just don't know if it was as epidemic as the segment made it out to be.

[1990 UM fan]

Originally Posted by MegtheEgg86

I actually thought the segment about the wild broncos in Nevada was really interesting. The explanation about the supposed shooters being connected to cattle ranching was a very plausible one, but I still don't understand at all why so many (weren't there like hundreds?) were found dead in one place. That always gave me pause--it just didn't seem like something that could've been intentional. I always wondered about the nature of that investigation and how thorough it was. I certainly don't doubt people shoot feral horses, but I just don't know if it was as epidemic as the segment made it out to be.

I have that case on VHS. I didn't understand the need to kill all those wild horses, it's their home for crying out loud.

[DarkDante]

Originally Posted by MegtheEgg86

I actually thought the segment about the wild broncos in Nevada was really interesting. The explanation about the supposed shooters being connected to cattle ranching was a very plausible one, but I still don't understand at all why so many (weren't there like hundreds?) were found dead in one place. That always gave me pause--it just didn't seem like something that could've been intentional. I always wondered about the nature of that investigation and how thorough it was. I certainly don't doubt people shoot feral horses, but I just don't know if it was as epidemic as the segment made it out to be.

Well that one is a little different as that is a true crime segment. The victims just happened to be animals. Most of the other segments involving animals border on pure stupidity in my opinion and are a blatant waste of time that could've otherwise been used to profile criminals and help locate missing persons.

In regards to the Nevada Wild Horse slayings, I'd suggest anyone interested in this segment to google some of the names brought forth in the segment. There are both articles from back when the slayings to place up until more than a decade later that are quite interesting to say the least.

[wiseguy182]

I'm a huge animal lover so I do like the animal ones. Remember Yogi the bloodhound? He turned up on Cold Case Files yesterday! Succesfully found a girl in a winter storm. Not exactly what I call "borderline stupidity"

[1990 UM fan]

Originally Posted by wiseguy182

I'm a huge animal lover so I do like the animal ones. Remember Yogi the bloodhound? He turned up on Cold Case Files yesterday! Succesfully found a girl in a winter storm. Not exactly what I call "borderline stupidity"

Love that bloodhound. He died in 1998 but did alot of work, including finding Alie Berellez.

[WishfulDreamer]

The animal segments weren't my favorite, but I still enjoyed most of them. I love the one with the pig because of the reenactment where the Good Samaritan looks pissed that a pig is blocking the road, incredulously follows the pig, and opens the door all the while having this look on his face like, "Am I really following a pig?" Thank goodness he did, though.

I agree about poor Wolfka. What the h? I would be pretty damn sad that my other dog was still missing.

I also loved Yogi and the dog who beat up (as in bit the crap out of) the guy who tried to rob his owner at gunpoint. I love the line when RS says the dog is covered in blood but it's not his- it's the robber's blood!

[MegtheEgg86]

Originally Posted by DarkDante

In regards to the Nevada Wild Horse slayings, I'd suggest anyone interested in this segment to google some of the names brought forth in the segment. There are both articles from back when the slayings to place up until more than a decade later that are quite interesting to say the least.

I checked some of those out last night. I saw that Terri Jay has a website. THAT was interesting.

I still don't know what to think about this one. I did read a lot from Deloyd Satterthwaite, who made what I think were a number of good and valid points about why the Wild Horse and Burro Act is problematic, but that still doesn't mean the horses who were shot weren't shot by ranchers or someone connected to them.

I didn't find anything definitive stating ALL the horses for certain had been shot. Some of them were, and I believe that was just as alleged in the segment: intentional. Some of them were simply assumed to be shot, from what I gathered from the articles (there didn't exist physical evidence on the animals nor any firearm rounds in a number of them). It certainly doesn't negate the fact that some animals were definitely shot--but I do still wonder if that is indeed how they all perished.

[MegtheEgg86]

Originally Posted by 1990 UM fan

I have that case on VHS. I didn't understand the need to kill all those wild horses, it's their home for crying out loud.

I don't understand the need to kill those horses, either. I wouldn't go so far as to say the range is "theirs".

There is no such thing as a wild American horse. They're all descendants of Spanish domesticated horses. They've been let go to live in the wild, and of course have done so for hundreds of years. But calling mustangs wild is like saying a family of alley felines behind a restaurant are "wild cats". In fact, because there are so many on the range, the state of Nevada has actually implemented programs for citizens to adopt the horses. Volunteers and some prison inmates train and care for the animals before they go to private homes and ranches.

I've loved horses for literally as long as I can remember and have had them in my life off and on for just as long, but the more I read about this Wild Horse and Burro Act, the more broken it looks to me. It looks like it was developed by individuals with a pretty much zero understanding of ecology OR equine animals.

[RobinW]

This isn't an animal segment per se, but I've always thought one of the more bizarre and creepy animal mysteries was the dead dog which was shot and found next to the dead body believed to be Dan Tondevold. They never mentioned Tondevold owning a pet, so you're left wondering where that dog came from and what it has to do with anything.