March 31, 2024
¿Por qué los perros son los mejores amigos del humano?
Perros actores, perros guías, perros detectores de bombas y de enfermedades. Los perros han sido quizás la especie animal más cercana al humano desde hace milenios. Hoy, más que preguntas, les quiero contar tres historias de perros que han salvado vidas.
Para este capítulo hablamos con el periodista Diego Guauque; con la odontóloga Manuela Duque; y con el músico Andrés Jaramillo.
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The day to day is full of
urgent news, noise, polemics and fanfare.
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But for peace of mind, analysis
and what we like to call slow
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- cooking journalism are my questions,
a program of medium haste made by KFAM
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inspiring smiles, dogs, actors,
dogs, guides, dogs, bomb and
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disease detectors. Dogs have perhaps been
the closest animal species to humans for millennia.
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Today, more than questions, I
want to tell you three stories of
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dogs that have saved lives for this
chapter. We spoke with journalist Diego Guauque,
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dentist Manuel Duque and musician Andrés Jaramillo. I' m Roberto Pombo,
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and this is chapter eighty- one
of my welcome questions. A few weeks
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ago it was the ceremony of the
oscar plenary sessions, the most anticipated awards
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in the world film industry. As
usual, the ceremony generated several headlines and
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social media discussions. The message of
the former president and again candidate for the
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presidency of the United States, Donald
Trump, to the master of ceremonies,
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Jimmy Kimmel, the appearance of actor
John sena nude on stage, the speech
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of director Jonathan Glazer, in which
he called for the cease- fire in
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Palestine, the musical show with the
song of Kennel Barbie character. Anyway,
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it was full of remarkable moments for
the pop culture and Batis. What he
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liked, what he didn' t
like, what was right and what wasn
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' t. Almost everything is subject
to discussion, but one moment that caused
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widespread joy was the appearance of Messi, not the Argentine footballer but the actor
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or better, the dog of breed
border collit actor who made part of the
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cast of the French film Anatomy of
a fall that and that was or was
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not nothing five awards And the truth
is that he deserved to be there to
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judge by his role in the film, which is not minor in case you
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have not seen anatomy of a fall, I tell him briefly and without ruining
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the story. Messi plays Snoh Daniel' s guide dog, a blind child
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who, after a walk, finds
his father' s body on the floor
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outside the house. Throughout the film, the real dog acts in a moment
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he plays dead, but he returns
his life in another scene, comforts the
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protagonist and so the performance Messi does
is better than many made by humans and
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if that night Messi did not win
a prize, it is because there is
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no category of better Canina performance.
But where he did win an award for
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his performance was at the Cannes Festival. It is not a dog festival,
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but the Cide festival in the city
of the French Ribera, where he was
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awarded the Palm Dog, an alternative
award that is awarded to the canines featured
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in the cinema. He' s
not the first dog in the film industry.
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You will remember classic characters like Commissioner
Rex, the German pastor who helps
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solve homicide cases, the olazi police, the acoli of the television series and
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the films that risk your life to
save your masters or owners or family.
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As you wish, Orrin Tintin,
the famous assistant dog of the United States
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Army, when the war against the
Indians. But the dogs have always been
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there beside the human and I say
it without taking my word lightly. It
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is always estimated that dogs were domesticated
about twelve thousand years ago and since then
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it has been one of the longest
evolutionary and symbiotic relationships we know. It
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is said that it all began when
wolf herds moved closer to the camps of
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humans who left remains of food like
bones and benefited more from this than from
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attacking them. Since then, like
every 12- year relationship, things have
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changed radically to the point where it
is now said that the dog is the
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human' s best friend and makes
sense. All these hero dogs that we
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see in cinema and television are the
product of the reality of real cases in
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which these animals have always been close
to each other faithfully, even in sad
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cases in which love is not reciprocal. So, today I want to tell
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you three stories of dogs who have
saved lives in various ways, moved by
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love and loyalty to their owners Amos
or relatives. When we think of dogs
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that save lives, we almost always
come to mind a large one usually of
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breeds like German shepherd or farmer,
athletic dogs that can drag a human out
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of the reach of a bomb or
that stands in the way of a bullet
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to avoid a gunshot. We resemble
them to human heroes, always muscular and
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with physical powers that exceed those of
the average. Rarely do we think that
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a creature about six inches tall,
short legs and stubble like corks can save
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a life. Martin' s case
is one of those exceptions to those unexpected
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miracles. Dash Hand is the real
name of the breed that we know as
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sausage dogs, a breed of small
dogs, short, elongated ducks and large
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ears and eyes. It was the
final months of two thousand twelve in MedellÃn,
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when Martin was born in an eight- dog litter. Of course at
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that time, his name was not
yet Martin or any other form of harsh
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sorrow. She was a tiny,
tender creature who spent her first few days
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in the world looking for one of
her mother' s tits, the warm
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herd, runched in a knot of
hair and short paws and sleeping. If
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you see a picture of that tender
puppy about ten centimeters tall, you can
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' t imagine that it can save
a human' s life by itself.
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Thirty days later, a hand pulled
him out of his litter, from that
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idyllic and pleasant life of puppy ons, Martin who was not Martin yet,
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almost fit in the palm of anyone' s hand he wore a blue lace,
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the favorite color of who today owns
him, tied on his neck to
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differentiate him from his brothers, because
daily the weight was out of control to
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verify that they were healthy. The
hands that received it were those of Manuela,
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the woman with whom she would spend
the rest of her life. Manuela
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asked her neighbor, the owner of
the litter, if she sold to one
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of the puppies and how she was
the first person to ask that question.
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She told her neighbor she was giving
it to her. Take him to spend
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the day with you and return him
to me later. He told her he
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was only a month old, she
had to give him back so he could
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still breastfeed. He was too young
to take it from his mom or wean
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it as it is normally said.
So, thinking about returning him at night,
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Manuela took him home. There was
her mother, Maria Teresa, who
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had never liked animals. They had
tried to have pets before, but ended
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up giving them away. But Martin
wasn' t an animal, he wasn
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' t a pet. Any Martin
had given all the signs of being different
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from his seven brothers and any other
dog.â That is my grandson,
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â said Doña Maria Teresa when she
saw that little elongated, black- eyed
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creature come into the house in the
hands of her daughter. One would think
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that tearing him out of that paradise
with his mother and litter would make Martin
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cry, make him despair. But
it wasn' t like that. On
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the contrary, it was a kind
of love. At first glance, Martin,
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since I arrived I have had many
dogs really in life and since he
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arrived, the connection was very different. Martin was never the typical puppy that
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when they come to the house they
cry the first nights infinitely because the mother
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needs it. Or that they are
difficult, as if to train or to
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drive. I didn' t have
a connection with Martin too big from the
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beginning since the first night he arrived. He slept all night next to me,
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if he didn' t wake up
asleep once here. I have to
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return a little The reason why,
at last, Mrs Maria Teresa agreed to
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have a pet in her house.
It wasn' t a mere whim or
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a sudden change of mind about pets. It happened because Manuela had been diagnosed
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with dysautonomy, a disease of the
nervous system that alters and also alters the
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heart and respiratory rate, blood pressure, widening or narrowing of the blood vessels
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and the response to stress. Manuela
had been having recurrent faintings because her blood
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pressure had dropped very much until then
she had not passed to adults. As
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he told me, he passed out
just a few minutes later and came back
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to himself with some discomfort for those
days. Doña MarÃa, Teresa spent her
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time between Peru and Colombia, so
her daughter spent a lot of time alone
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and in her condition, that was
not desirable. Upon your daughter' s
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request for a masque thing, Doña
Maria' s first idea was a fish
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but we all know that they are
not pets that can give much companionship.
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The fact is that that same night
Manuela took Martin back, next to her
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litter, to her neighbor' s
house. Already Manuela knew that once Martin
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showed up Tara would be welcome in
her new home, but the addition was
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faster than expected. When I told
you that he wasn' t the typical
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dog who stayed, because Martin was
crying and began to share with me the
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raticos. I went and visited him
almost every day. He took it away
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for a while, half a horita, a horita, one day, and
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Martin was only forty days old.
It was too small for this tarlo.
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She told me it' s been
a while and I took it to my
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house. When I owe it to
myself at the time, she called me
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and gave me come for this dog
is stuck under the washing machine squealing since
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you left it here. He doesn' t want to live here anymore and
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I went for him and I barely
carried him. He kept quiet. Then
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it was that night that it became
official that Martin had a new family.
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And that' s when Martin was
finally baptized like this by San MartÃn de
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Porres, a Peruvian saint recognized,
among other things, for being able to
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communicate with animals, never had a
name been so well put. Several months
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later, when he was four months
old, that little Sanchicha dog named Santo
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did his miracle. On that day, Doña MarÃa Teresa, who is a
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doctor, was at home and Manuela
was in the bathroom of her room when
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she gave her one of the usual
studies for her autonomy, Only this time
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it was not just a normal fainting, but the pressure so strong that she
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entered a cardiorespiratory arrest, that is, her heart, interrupted all her activities.
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His breathing stopped. Manuel was on
the verge of death. Martin,
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who was with her, started barking
already, but barking from such a small
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dog and getting lost in the walls
and nobody listened to them. Then he
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ran as fast as four four-
inch legs and an elongated, small body
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allow. He looked for Maria Teresa
on the balcony of the house and began
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barking at her. Of course,
she didn' t understand what was going
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on and she just threw in to
ask him to shut up, but Martin
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didn' t stop. He was
forced to bite her pants and take her
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to the bathroom. Maria Teresa,
who is a doctor, found her daughter
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collapsed on the unconscious floor, took
her vital signs and realized that she had
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no pulse and did not breathe.
I would say that luckily he could revive
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her and bring her back to life, but it was actually because of Martin
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who knew what was going on and
came to his aid. Since then,
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Manuela must use a pacemaker and Martina
is trashed. It' s been twelve
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years and Martin' s sick and
old now, but he keeps taking care
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of her. He really did He
loved company all the time. I feel
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like when I' m bad at
myself, I don' t need him
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to be next to me. And
it' s kind of like feeling safe.
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Sometimes when, before I had the
sea capped, I felt like I
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was going to get connected. That
feeling that you lose control of your body
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and you don' t know what' s going to happen. It'
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s very hard to handle. Then
my tears came out, like when I
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felt like I was already fainting,
and he was just lying down from over
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my chest and starting to lick my
face. So he' s always made
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me feel that security, that company
with him. He' s a very
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small mud, but still, he' s too brave, he' s
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too quiet, he' s too
strong for how old Martin' s story
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is. It' s the smallest
superhero I' ve ever met and still
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fascinates me, and it' s
believed that dogs can detect disease even before
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humans know it. In fact,
the use and potential of biomedical detection dogs
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for disease outbreaks has been studied for
some time. A study published in the
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magazine Fronquius in Medicine in two thousand
twenty- two concludes, among other things,
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that, unlike the other traditional tools
of detection or diagnosis agrocomillas, biomedical
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detection dogs are able to locate the
target smell to find the infected person,
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obtain the unique volatiloma signature, that
is, that the smell is actively releases
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or alerts to the slightest sign of
a specific biological odor among the wide range
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of biological noise present in the operating
environment. This search function, combined with
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the ability of biomedical detection dogs to
quickly eliminate patients from non- ill areas,
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makes the potential of biomedical detection dogs
incomparable in a disease outbreak scenario.
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I close quotes better said, as
well as today, millions of dogs are
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able to find alert when they feel
the smell of drugs and explosives. They
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can do the same with some diseases. The organization Dogs medical detection dedicated to
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training dogs for disease detection. In
his research of two thousand fourteen he found
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that his dogs were able to detect
small traces around one part per billion,
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the equivalent of a teaspoon of sugar
in two Olympic pools of smell created by
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different diseases. These dogs are trained
to detect diseases such as cancer, neurological
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diseases such as parkinson, diseases caused
by bacteria and malaria. This reminded me
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of a story that recently became well
known and is that of brown, the
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chocolate farmer, of journalist Diego Wauke. Several years ago, when Diego and
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Alejandra Rodriguez, his current wife,
decided to live together, he told her
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that he had a daughter of whom
he had custody and that he would live
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with them and she that had a
son, dog, a chocolate farmer named
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Brown. So they formed a family
of four, but Marro didn' t
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want much anymore. I met him
when Arrosito was four, an absolutely spectacular
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dog. I knew him obviously when
we were boyfriends with Aleja and he came
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to me because obviously he already lived
in the apartment. And so the amount
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of memories and adventures, because it
is incomparable. It was the first time
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Diego was going to live with a
dog, and not because he didn'
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t want to, but because,
although he always wanted one as a child,
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his parents never gave him the desire
to have a dog. However,
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the relationship at first was careful and
he had to earn it. So the
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relationship with Brown was the best.
Anyone who likes dogs. If you have
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had one, you will feel identified
how to walk, favorite food toys and
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cear places to make the body.
All these intimate details of the animal become
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part of one' s life.
For example, from Brown, it can
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be said that he was a farmer
who liked bread very much and even if
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he was forbidden to go to bed, it was sometimes impossible to resist his
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gaze and let him sleep with them. Even at his eleven and a half
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years old, Brown didn' t
grow up. He always looked like a
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child dying to run in the park, until a veterinarian detected a tumor in
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his belly and due to his advanced
age. Operating it had a very high
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risk. A veterinarian made a comment
that did not like much in the family
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to Brown Comillas bro. You must
be sucking bad energy here, something bad
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Locking Comillas. Despite being ill,
Brown did not give in to the terany
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of the years and remained as active
as he could. Diego and Alejandra tried
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to make him understand that now life
could not be the same as it had
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to lighten his pace. Then his
diet and habits changed, but in his
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case the disease was relentless, until
he simply one day did not want to
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get up and did not want to
eat. One day he didn' t
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want to eat that for me that
was a very sad sign, because he
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was an absolutely gluttonous dog and he
didn' t even want to eat for
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example, the bread he loved.
We were forbidden to do so, but
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in the end we told him to
grind bread, to grind the things he
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wants. I didn' t eat
bread, I didn' t want to
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eat meat, I didn' t
want to eat chicken. I mean,
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in a dog that says no,
he turns his five away. I was
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saying it shouldn' t be hurting
him enough to get him out on the
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street. I was playing the tsarlo. He loved being in the park and
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those last days of it he went
out on the street and he was a
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little bit quiet and boom fell flat. It was my turn to pick him
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up. We put him in the
elevator. It wasn' t very sad
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and we knew that he was suffering
and especially because he was rejecting the food.
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because it probably hurts so much.
The disease contrasts more vital things that seem
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no longer to be them. That
day they knew that all that was left
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was pain and that it was better
to end their suffering. That day,
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Brown received autanasia. Two years later, several media reported the news that the
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colleague Caracol channel, Diego Wauke,
diagnosed a cancer a zarcoma that affected his
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pancreas the doubter, the vein on
horseback a kidney, was found at a
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stage of the cancer in which it
could still be treated. So on the
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24th of May he underwent surgery in
which he was removed from the cercoma and
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then came thirty- four sessions of
radiation therapy, a long process when I
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get cancer too, as we remember
the story of Brown, who Brown died
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of cancer. We found out it
was a coincidence that it was also the
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same place he gave me. So, when we evoked that veterinarian, we
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said, well, what that veterinarian
wanted to tell us was not a bad
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energy, a dark shadow that was
here in the apartment, but really what
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was going on was that Brown was
sucking off a disease suddenly, my illness.
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And now, because we try to
interpret it so maybe he, because
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he sucked some of my illness,
did not let it mature. And because
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she didn' t let her grow
up, because my tumor, when it
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was discovered, was still treatable.
I can' t stop thinking about the
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classic image of the escort that goes
between the bullet and its protégé only deferred.
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If we stick to scientific research,
there' s no evidence that Marron
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has absorbed much of a disease I
die had. But there are moments in
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life when it makes more sense to
stick to the mysticism of our relationship with
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dogs. I know it' s
not the same, but there are studies
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that suggest that dogs have the ability
to feel empathy towards humans. An experiment
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found a connection between empathy and contagious
yawning. That phenomenon when someone in a
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yawny room and that in turn makes
you yawn, so the dogs started yawning
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when a human yawned nearby. Dr
Brian Hear, founder of Duke University'
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s Canine Commission Center, said that
canines have learned to bond with us and,
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to some extent, to read our
minds like no other animal can.
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Diego reflects on this in his book
Love against Cancer, which he co-
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wrote with Alejandra RodrÃguez, and in
which he collects a kind of diary of
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his sick days. This says a
frangin. Today I don' t feel
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it' s crazy that a pet
has the power to do that for its
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loved ones. So, today,
when I close my eyes and pray,
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I also ask for help in the
Perrón sky. We have no way of
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knowing if Brown really helped make diego
cancer less intense. However, Diego his
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family and many people choose every day
to believe in the magical and inexplicable power
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that dogs have and is that these
animals help in mysterious ways, but for
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a long time, early twentieth century, dogs have also been guides, and
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I say it in the most literal
sense, assistance dogs or Rosarillo, as
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they are also known, has been
one of the ways that these best friends
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have saved lives or at least have
prevented accidents or better, have improved lives.
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Just ask him. Andrés Caramillo,
a thirty- nine- year-
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old musician, told me about his
story. For the blind. The acronyms
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A six of c do not mean
before Christ and after Christ, but those
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letters have a translation if you want
deeper, before you are blind and after
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you are blind. The life made
of Andrew was until the 11th of January
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of two thousand and ten, when
by an eye glaucoma he lost his sight.
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A memory like this is not erased, even if you want. I
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went blind on January 11, two
thousand and ten. I remember it clearly
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because it was a crucial time for
me, a very strong stage where I
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had to start from scratch, especially
that I had very high economic responsibilities,
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because I was the father of three
very small daughters, My youngest daughter had
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seven days of birth and so,
well, I still have a little trouble
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remembering. However, I thank life, God, of course, the people
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who have been with me so that
I can carry out my life project.
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It' s been a big effort. I' ve made it. I
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feel calm and among the things I
should most appreciate, because it is the
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unconditional support of my guide dogs.
That for me marked life one before and
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one after. It' s a
ovity to say it, but of course,
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his life changed. One of the
dominant senses is sight. We distinguished
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a known person. When we watch
it we spend hours of our lives watching
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movies and series. The change was
drastic, being he, as much of
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the adults, a person accustomed to
solving his day to day independently. As
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he himself says, the world is
made for those who see, so he
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practically had to learn again many routines
we took for granted, but especially one
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the most difficult to move around the
city. If being a pedathon in this
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city is quite difficult to be a
blind pedestrian, it is the double or
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more, the bikes and cars badly
parked, the flying, the aggressiveness of
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many drivers and the signals made for
people who can see make it quite difficult
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for people like Andrés to walk peacefully. Capacitism was another barrier it encountered,
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i e it is a form of
discrimination or prejudice towards persons with disabilities,
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in which trained persons are the norm
in society and persons with disabilities must adapt
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to the norm or be excluded from
the social system. Capacitist. It was
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a few years after he learned of
an association of assistance dogs, that his
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life changed again yaria gem, a
farming bitch and a German shepherd his guides.
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The link then created between a blind
user and his guide dog is absolute.
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It' s so different from what
can happen to another kind of human
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relationship dog that it' s called
binomial. According to Andrew, each dog
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is different to adapt. That'
s the secret, getting to know each
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other, distinguishing emotions and reactions from
each other. Their guide bitches have practically
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become their shadows and where he is
they are in the Usually, the guide
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dogs are of breeds such as labrador
or golden retreater. However,Ãria is
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the only German pastor guide in the
country and has been a challenge because it
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is a more active race that has
worked for Andrés, who is an agile
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guy accustomed to walking fast the system
as aria guide Andrés is quite peculiar,
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but let him explain it to us
between that good relationship that there is.
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Then you learn to identify nerves to
area. For example, if a dog
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approaches him, I identify an era
in the position he puts himself if suddenly
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he sees any danger in the change
and that we normally carry and is not,
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for example, right now, they
are in a house in a few
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hours. Then there' s a
scaffolding. So his moves already indicate good
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batteries to me that it' s
time to do something different here and we
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need to get down to the street. Keep an eye on it, then
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that alerts me. She also knows, as a human being, when I
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am sad, then either I am
distressed or I am not stressed. It
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gets up to my legs and starts
licking me and expressing its affection to me
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in a very nice dog way.
Let' s also say I can perceive
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her needs. So, if I
manage your schedules well done, then I
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already feel the need to get to
the bathroom suddenly with a stomachache or something
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so that I can present the dog. It' s a way of expressing
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if you have any need. She
comes to me, she starts to smell
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what mayaria has given her more than
a guide to Andres. Already millions of
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people in the world have allowed him
to be autonomous and move on. It
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' s definitely a way to save
life. Of course my little dogs have
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changed my life, some aspects have
improved, such as independence in travel.
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In this way, they have made
support for my good work performance, to
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have an autonomous mobility and, of
course, to take forward my life project,
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which is music, which is teaching
in this way, because they are
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always present, so they have changed
my life in a positive way. The
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question that gives title to this chapter
is why dogs are the best friends of
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humans. Unlike other chapters, there
are no figures, studies, or scientific
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publications to answer it, but these
stories seemed to me the perfect argument to
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answer it. They are best friends, because it is an age- old
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friendship, because it has evolved and
taught us that loyalty and selfless love exist.
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I don' t want to finish
the program without mentioning the hundreds,
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but thousands of armed forces dogs that
each day help us to be safer and
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somehow save lives with their work.
Sometimes I feel like we can do more
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for them, especially when I see
cases of abuse or abandoned dogs on the
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street. Different institutions, foundations and
agencies do what they can in the country.
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Sometimes, however, it seems insufficient. I wish, like Messi,
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more dogs could have the recognition and
fame for their work, for saving lives
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like Martin Brown, Gema Aria and
many more or at least they could have
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happier lives. I am Roberto Pombo
and this was chapter eighty- one of
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my questions. See you in the
next chapter from now on. This chapter
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of my questions is available on all
podcast platforms. This episode was made possible
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by Kafam, inspiring Smiles. Dirección
Roberto Pombo, Producción General, Juan Abel
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Gutiérrez, Asesor editorial, Daniel San
Pedro Espina, scripts juan Abel Gutiérrez and
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Johnny RodrÃguez. Field production, Marcela
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The day to day is full of
urgent news, noise, polemics and fanfare.
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But for peace of mind, analysis
and what we like to call slow
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- cooking journalism are my questions,
a program of medium haste made by KFAM
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inspiring smiles, dogs, actors,
dogs, guides, dogs, bomb and
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disease detectors. Dogs have perhaps been
the closest animal species to humans for millennia.
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Today, more than questions, I
want to tell you three stories of
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dogs that have saved lives for this
chapter. We spoke with journalist Diego Guauque,
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dentist Manuel Duque and musician Andrés Jaramillo. I' m Roberto Pombo,
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and this is chapter eighty- one
of my welcome questions. A few weeks
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ago it was the ceremony of the
oscar plenary sessions, the most anticipated awards
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in the world film industry. As
usual, the ceremony generated several headlines and
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social media discussions. The message of
the former president and again candidate for the
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presidency of the United States, Donald
Trump, to the master of ceremonies,
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Jimmy Kimmel, the appearance of actor
John sena nude on stage, the speech
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of director Jonathan Glazer, in which
he called for the cease- fire in
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Palestine, the musical show with the
song of Kennel Barbie character. Anyway,
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it was full of remarkable moments for
the pop culture and Batis. What he
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liked, what he didn' t
like, what was right and what wasn
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' t. Almost everything is subject
to discussion, but one moment that caused
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widespread joy was the appearance of Messi, not the Argentine footballer but the actor
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or better, the dog of breed
border collit actor who made part of the
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cast of the French film Anatomy of
a fall that and that was or was
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not nothing five awards And the truth
is that he deserved to be there to
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judge by his role in the film, which is not minor in case you
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have not seen anatomy of a fall, I tell him briefly and without ruining
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the story. Messi plays Snoh Daniel' s guide dog, a blind child
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who, after a walk, finds
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outside the house. Throughout the film, the real dog acts in a moment
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he plays dead, but he returns
his life in another scene, comforts the
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protagonist and so the performance Messi does
is better than many made by humans and
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if that night Messi did not win
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no category of better Canina performance.
But where he did win an award for
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his performance was at the Cannes Festival. It is not a dog festival,
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but the Cide festival in the city
of the French Ribera, where he was
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awarded the Palm Dog, an alternative
award that is awarded to the canines featured
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in the cinema. He' s
not the first dog in the film industry.
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You will remember classic characters like Commissioner
Rex, the German pastor who helps
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solve homicide cases, the olazi police, the acoli of the television series and
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the films that risk your life to
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As you wish, Orrin Tintin,
the famous assistant dog of the United States
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Army, when the war against the
Indians. But the dogs have always been
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there beside the human and I say
it without taking my word lightly. It
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is always estimated that dogs were domesticated
about twelve thousand years ago and since then
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it has been one of the longest
evolutionary and symbiotic relationships we know. It
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is said that it all began when
wolf herds moved closer to the camps of
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humans who left remains of food like
bones and benefited more from this than from
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attacking them. Since then, like
every 12- year relationship, things have
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changed radically to the point where it
is now said that the dog is the
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human' s best friend and makes
sense. All these hero dogs that we
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see in cinema and television are the
product of the reality of real cases in
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which these animals have always been close
to each other faithfully, even in sad
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cases in which love is not reciprocal. So, today I want to tell
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you three stories of dogs who have
saved lives in various ways, moved by
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love and loyalty to their owners Amos
or relatives. When we think of dogs
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that save lives, we almost always
come to mind a large one usually of
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breeds like German shepherd or farmer,
athletic dogs that can drag a human out
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of the reach of a bomb or
that stands in the way of a bullet
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to avoid a gunshot. We resemble
them to human heroes, always muscular and
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with physical powers that exceed those of
the average. Rarely do we think that
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a creature about six inches tall,
short legs and stubble like corks can save
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a life. Martin' s case
is one of those exceptions to those unexpected
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miracles. Dash Hand is the real
name of the breed that we know as
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sausage dogs, a breed of small
dogs, short, elongated ducks and large
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ears and eyes. It was the
final months of two thousand twelve in MedellÃn,
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when Martin was born in an eight- dog litter. Of course at
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that time, his name was not
yet Martin or any other form of harsh
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sorrow. She was a tiny,
tender creature who spent her first few days
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in the world looking for one of
her mother' s tits, the warm
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herd, runched in a knot of
hair and short paws and sleeping. If
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you see a picture of that tender
puppy about ten centimeters tall, you can
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' t imagine that it can save
a human' s life by itself.
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Thirty days later, a hand pulled
him out of his litter, from that
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idyllic and pleasant life of puppy ons, Martin who was not Martin yet,
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almost fit in the palm of anyone' s hand he wore a blue lace,
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the favorite color of who today owns
him, tied on his neck to
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differentiate him from his brothers, because
daily the weight was out of control to
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verify that they were healthy. The
hands that received it were those of Manuela,
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the woman with whom she would spend
the rest of her life. Manuela
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asked her neighbor, the owner of
the litter, if she sold to one
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of the puppies and how she was
the first person to ask that question.
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She told her neighbor she was giving
it to her. Take him to spend
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the day with you and return him
to me later. He told her he
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was only a month old, she
had to give him back so he could
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still breastfeed. He was too young
to take it from his mom or wean
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it as it is normally said.
So, thinking about returning him at night,
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Manuela took him home. There was
her mother, Maria Teresa, who
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had never liked animals. They had
tried to have pets before, but ended
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up giving them away. But Martin
wasn' t an animal, he wasn
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' t a pet. Any Martin
had given all the signs of being different
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from his seven brothers and any other
dog.â That is my grandson,
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â said Doña Maria Teresa when she
saw that little elongated, black- eyed
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creature come into the house in the
hands of her daughter. One would think
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that tearing him out of that paradise
with his mother and litter would make Martin
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cry, make him despair. But
it wasn' t like that. On
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the contrary, it was a kind
of love. At first glance, Martin,
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since I arrived I have had many
dogs really in life and since he
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arrived, the connection was very different. Martin was never the typical puppy that
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when they come to the house they
cry the first nights infinitely because the mother
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needs it. Or that they are
difficult, as if to train or to
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drive. I didn' t have
a connection with Martin too big from the
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beginning since the first night he arrived. He slept all night next to me,
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if he didn' t wake up
asleep once here. I have to
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return a little The reason why,
at last, Mrs Maria Teresa agreed to
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have a pet in her house.
It wasn' t a mere whim or
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a sudden change of mind about pets. It happened because Manuela had been diagnosed
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with dysautonomy, a disease of the
nervous system that alters and also alters the
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heart and respiratory rate, blood pressure, widening or narrowing of the blood vessels
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and the response to stress. Manuela
had been having recurrent faintings because her blood
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pressure had dropped very much until then
she had not passed to adults. As
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he told me, he passed out
just a few minutes later and came back
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to himself with some discomfort for those
days. Doña MarÃa, Teresa spent her
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time between Peru and Colombia, so
her daughter spent a lot of time alone
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and in her condition, that was
not desirable. Upon your daughter' s
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request for a masque thing, Doña
Maria' s first idea was a fish
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but we all know that they are
not pets that can give much companionship.
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The fact is that that same night
Manuela took Martin back, next to her
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litter, to her neighbor' s
house. Already Manuela knew that once Martin
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showed up Tara would be welcome in
her new home, but the addition was
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faster than expected. When I told
you that he wasn' t the typical
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dog who stayed, because Martin was
crying and began to share with me the
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raticos. I went and visited him
almost every day. He took it away
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for a while, half a horita, a horita, one day, and
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Martin was only forty days old.
It was too small for this tarlo.
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She told me it' s been
a while and I took it to my
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house. When I owe it to
myself at the time, she called me
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and gave me come for this dog
is stuck under the washing machine squealing since
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you left it here. He doesn' t want to live here anymore and
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I went for him and I barely
carried him. He kept quiet. Then
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it was that night that it became
official that Martin had a new family.
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And that' s when Martin was
finally baptized like this by San MartÃn de
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Porres, a Peruvian saint recognized,
among other things, for being able to
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communicate with animals, never had a
name been so well put. Several months
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later, when he was four months
old, that little Sanchicha dog named Santo
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did his miracle. On that day, Doña MarÃa Teresa, who is a
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doctor, was at home and Manuela
was in the bathroom of her room when
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she gave her one of the usual
studies for her autonomy, Only this time
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it was not just a normal fainting, but the pressure so strong that she
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entered a cardiorespiratory arrest, that is, her heart, interrupted all her activities.
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His breathing stopped. Manuel was on
the verge of death. Martin,
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who was with her, started barking
already, but barking from such a small
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dog and getting lost in the walls
and nobody listened to them. Then he
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ran as fast as four four-
inch legs and an elongated, small body
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allow. He looked for Maria Teresa
on the balcony of the house and began
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barking at her. Of course,
she didn' t understand what was going
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on and she just threw in to
ask him to shut up, but Martin
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didn' t stop. He was
forced to bite her pants and take her
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to the bathroom. Maria Teresa,
who is a doctor, found her daughter
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collapsed on the unconscious floor, took
her vital signs and realized that she had
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no pulse and did not breathe.
I would say that luckily he could revive
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her and bring her back to life, but it was actually because of Martin
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who knew what was going on and
came to his aid. Since then,
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Manuela must use a pacemaker and Martina
is trashed. It' s been twelve
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years and Martin' s sick and
old now, but he keeps taking care
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of her. He really did He
loved company all the time. I feel
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like when I' m bad at
myself, I don' t need him
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to be next to me. And
it' s kind of like feeling safe.
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Sometimes when, before I had the
sea capped, I felt like I
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was going to get connected. That
feeling that you lose control of your body
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and you don' t know what' s going to happen. It'
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s very hard to handle. Then
my tears came out, like when I
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felt like I was already fainting,
and he was just lying down from over
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my chest and starting to lick my
face. So he' s always made
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me feel that security, that company
with him. He' s a very
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small mud, but still, he' s too brave, he' s
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too quiet, he' s too
strong for how old Martin' s story
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is. It' s the smallest
superhero I' ve ever met and still
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fascinates me, and it' s
believed that dogs can detect disease even before
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humans know it. In fact,
the use and potential of biomedical detection dogs
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for disease outbreaks has been studied for
some time. A study published in the
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magazine Fronquius in Medicine in two thousand
twenty- two concludes, among other things,
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that, unlike the other traditional tools
of detection or diagnosis agrocomillas, biomedical
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detection dogs are able to locate the
target smell to find the infected person,
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obtain the unique volatiloma signature, that
is, that the smell is actively releases
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or alerts to the slightest sign of
a specific biological odor among the wide range
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of biological noise present in the operating
environment. This search function, combined with
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the ability of biomedical detection dogs to
quickly eliminate patients from non- ill areas,
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makes the potential of biomedical detection dogs
incomparable in a disease outbreak scenario.
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I close quotes better said, as
well as today, millions of dogs are
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able to find alert when they feel
the smell of drugs and explosives. They
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can do the same with some diseases. The organization Dogs medical detection dedicated to
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training dogs for disease detection. In
his research of two thousand fourteen he found
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that his dogs were able to detect
small traces around one part per billion,
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the equivalent of a teaspoon of sugar
in two Olympic pools of smell created by
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different diseases. These dogs are trained
to detect diseases such as cancer, neurological
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diseases such as parkinson, diseases caused
by bacteria and malaria. This reminded me
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of a story that recently became well
known and is that of brown, the
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chocolate farmer, of journalist Diego Wauke. Several years ago, when Diego and
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Alejandra Rodriguez, his current wife,
decided to live together, he told her
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that he had a daughter of whom
he had custody and that he would live
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with them and she that had a
son, dog, a chocolate farmer named
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Brown. So they formed a family
of four, but Marro didn' t
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want much anymore. I met him
when Arrosito was four, an absolutely spectacular
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dog. I knew him obviously when
we were boyfriends with Aleja and he came
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to me because obviously he already lived
in the apartment. And so the amount
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of memories and adventures, because it
is incomparable. It was the first time
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Diego was going to live with a
dog, and not because he didn'
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t want to, but because,
although he always wanted one as a child,
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his parents never gave him the desire
to have a dog. However,
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the relationship at first was careful and
he had to earn it. So the
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relationship with Brown was the best.
Anyone who likes dogs. If you have
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had one, you will feel identified
how to walk, favorite food toys and
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cear places to make the body.
All these intimate details of the animal become
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part of one' s life.
For example, from Brown, it can
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be said that he was a farmer
who liked bread very much and even if
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he was forbidden to go to bed, it was sometimes impossible to resist his
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gaze and let him sleep with them. Even at his eleven and a half
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years old, Brown didn' t
grow up. He always looked like a
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child dying to run in the park, until a veterinarian detected a tumor in
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his belly and due to his advanced
age. Operating it had a very high
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risk. A veterinarian made a comment
that did not like much in the family
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to Brown Comillas bro. You must
be sucking bad energy here, something bad
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Locking Comillas. Despite being ill,
Brown did not give in to the terany
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of the years and remained as active
as he could. Diego and Alejandra tried
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to make him understand that now life
could not be the same as it had
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to lighten his pace. Then his
diet and habits changed, but in his
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case the disease was relentless, until
he simply one day did not want to
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get up and did not want to
eat. One day he didn' t
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want to eat that for me that
was a very sad sign, because he
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was an absolutely gluttonous dog and he
didn' t even want to eat for
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example, the bread he loved.
We were forbidden to do so, but
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in the end we told him to
grind bread, to grind the things he
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wants. I didn' t eat
bread, I didn' t want to
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eat meat, I didn' t
want to eat chicken. I mean,
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in a dog that says no,
he turns his five away. I was
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saying it shouldn' t be hurting
him enough to get him out on the
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street. I was playing the tsarlo. He loved being in the park and
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those last days of it he went
out on the street and he was a
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little bit quiet and boom fell flat. It was my turn to pick him
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up. We put him in the
elevator. It wasn' t very sad
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and we knew that he was suffering
and especially because he was rejecting the food.
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That' s what I said,
Cimarrón rejects food. It' s
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because it probably hurts so much.
The disease contrasts more vital things that seem
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no longer to be them. That
day they knew that all that was left
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was pain and that it was better
to end their suffering. That day,
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Brown received autanasia. Two years later, several media reported the news that the
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colleague Caracol channel, Diego Wauke,
diagnosed a cancer a zarcoma that affected his
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pancreas the doubter, the vein on
horseback a kidney, was found at a
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stage of the cancer in which it
could still be treated. So on the
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24th of May he underwent surgery in
which he was removed from the cercoma and
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then came thirty- four sessions of
radiation therapy, a long process when I
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get cancer too, as we remember
the story of Brown, who Brown died
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of cancer. We found out it
was a coincidence that it was also the
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same place he gave me. So, when we evoked that veterinarian, we
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said, well, what that veterinarian
wanted to tell us was not a bad
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energy, a dark shadow that was
here in the apartment, but really what
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was going on was that Brown was
sucking off a disease suddenly, my illness.
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And now, because we try to
interpret it so maybe he, because
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he sucked some of my illness,
did not let it mature. And because
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she didn' t let her grow
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was discovered, was still treatable.
I can' t stop thinking about the
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classic image of the escort that goes
between the bullet and its protégé only deferred.
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If we stick to scientific research,
there' s no evidence that Marron
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has absorbed much of a disease I
die had. But there are moments in
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life when it makes more sense to
stick to the mysticism of our relationship with
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dogs. I know it' s
not the same, but there are studies
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that suggest that dogs have the ability
to feel empathy towards humans. An experiment
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found a connection between empathy and contagious
yawning. That phenomenon when someone in a
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yawny room and that in turn makes
you yawn, so the dogs started yawning
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when a human yawned nearby. Dr
Brian Hear, founder of Duke University'
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s Canine Commission Center, said that
canines have learned to bond with us and,
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to some extent, to read our
minds like no other animal can.
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Diego reflects on this in his book
Love against Cancer, which he co-
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wrote with Alejandra RodrÃguez, and in
which he collects a kind of diary of
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his sick days. This says a
frangin. Today I don' t feel
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it' s crazy that a pet
has the power to do that for its
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loved ones. So, today,
when I close my eyes and pray,
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I also ask for help in the
Perrón sky. We have no way of
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knowing if Brown really helped make diego
cancer less intense. However, Diego his
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family and many people choose every day
to believe in the magical and inexplicable power
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that dogs have and is that these
animals help in mysterious ways, but for
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a long time, early twentieth century, dogs have also been guides, and
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I say it in the most literal
sense, assistance dogs or Rosarillo, as
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they are also known, has been
one of the ways that these best friends
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have saved lives or at least have
prevented accidents or better, have improved lives.
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Just ask him. Andrés Caramillo,
a thirty- nine- year-
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old musician, told me about his
story. For the blind. The acronyms
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A six of c do not mean
before Christ and after Christ, but those
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letters have a translation if you want
deeper, before you are blind and after
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you are blind. The life made
of Andrew was until the 11th of January
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of two thousand and ten, when
by an eye glaucoma he lost his sight.
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A memory like this is not erased, even if you want. I
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went blind on January 11, two
thousand and ten. I remember it clearly
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because it was a crucial time for
me, a very strong stage where I
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had to start from scratch, especially
that I had very high economic responsibilities,
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because I was the father of three
very small daughters, My youngest daughter had
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seven days of birth and so,
well, I still have a little trouble
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remembering. However, I thank life, God, of course, the people
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who have been with me so that
I can carry out my life project.
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It' s been a big effort. I' ve made it. I
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feel calm and among the things I
should most appreciate, because it is the
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unconditional support of my guide dogs.
That for me marked life one before and
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one after. It' s a
ovity to say it, but of course,
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his life changed. One of the
dominant senses is sight. We distinguished
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a known person. When we watch
it we spend hours of our lives watching
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movies and series. The change was
drastic, being he, as much of
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the adults, a person accustomed to
solving his day to day independently. As
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he himself says, the world is
made for those who see, so he
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practically had to learn again many routines
we took for granted, but especially one
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the most difficult to move around the
city. If being a pedathon in this
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city is quite difficult to be a
blind pedestrian, it is the double or
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more, the bikes and cars badly
parked, the flying, the aggressiveness of
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many drivers and the signals made for
people who can see make it quite difficult
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for people like Andrés to walk peacefully. Capacitism was another barrier it encountered,
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i e it is a form of
discrimination or prejudice towards persons with disabilities,
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in which trained persons are the norm
in society and persons with disabilities must adapt
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to the norm or be excluded from
the social system. Capacitist. It was
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a few years after he learned of
an association of assistance dogs, that his
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life changed again yaria gem, a
farming bitch and a German shepherd his guides.
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The link then created between a blind
user and his guide dog is absolute.
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It' s so different from what
can happen to another kind of human
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relationship dog that it' s called
binomial. According to Andrew, each dog
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is different to adapt. That'
s the secret, getting to know each
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other, distinguishing emotions and reactions from
each other. Their guide bitches have practically
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become their shadows and where he is
they are in the Usually, the guide
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dogs are of breeds such as labrador
or golden retreater. However,Ãria is
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the only German pastor guide in the
country and has been a challenge because it
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is a more active race that has
worked for Andrés, who is an agile
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guy accustomed to walking fast the system
as aria guide Andrés is quite peculiar,
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but let him explain it to us
between that good relationship that there is.
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Then you learn to identify nerves to
area. For example, if a dog
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approaches him, I identify an era
in the position he puts himself if suddenly
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he sees any danger in the change
and that we normally carry and is not,
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for example, right now, they
are in a house in a few
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hours. Then there' s a
scaffolding. So his moves already indicate good
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batteries to me that it' s
time to do something different here and we
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need to get down to the street. Keep an eye on it, then
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that alerts me. She also knows, as a human being, when I
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am sad, then either I am
distressed or I am not stressed. It
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gets up to my legs and starts
licking me and expressing its affection to me
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in a very nice dog way.
Let' s also say I can perceive
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her needs. So, if I
manage your schedules well done, then I
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already feel the need to get to
the bathroom suddenly with a stomachache or something
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so that I can present the dog. It' s a way of expressing
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if you have any need. She
comes to me, she starts to smell
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what mayaria has given her more than
a guide to Andres. Already millions of
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people in the world have allowed him
to be autonomous and move on. It
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' s definitely a way to save
life. Of course my little dogs have
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changed my life, some aspects have
improved, such as independence in travel.
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In this way, they have made
support for my good work performance, to
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have an autonomous mobility and, of
course, to take forward my life project,
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which is music, which is teaching
in this way, because they are
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always present, so they have changed
my life in a positive way. The
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question that gives title to this chapter
is why dogs are the best friends of
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humans. Unlike other chapters, there
are no figures, studies, or scientific
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publications to answer it, but these
stories seemed to me the perfect argument to
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answer it. They are best friends, because it is an age- old
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friendship, because it has evolved and
taught us that loyalty and selfless love exist.
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I don' t want to finish
the program without mentioning the hundreds,
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but thousands of armed forces dogs that
each day help us to be safer and
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somehow save lives with their work.
Sometimes I feel like we can do more
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for them, especially when I see
cases of abuse or abandoned dogs on the
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street. Different institutions, foundations and
agencies do what they can in the country.
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Sometimes, however, it seems insufficient. I wish, like Messi,
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more dogs could have the recognition and
fame for their work, for saving lives
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like Martin Brown, Gema Aria and
many more or at least they could have
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happier lives. I am Roberto Pombo
and this was chapter eighty- one of
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my questions. See you in the
next chapter from now on. This chapter
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of my questions is available on all
podcast platforms. This episode was made possible
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by Kafam, inspiring Smiles. Dirección
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