Even the flies thought he was dead...

Sep 3, 2016 9:43 PM

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Yay for Oliver beating the odds stacked against him.

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Animal Aid Unlimited, India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKF9ocFfw9Y
*I am not part of this organization. At this point, I'm only a viewer of their videos on YouTube.

I always skip to the end of these to see happy dogs.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Now this is a company i would donate money to help support ....ive seen them do so many amazing things for animals on here...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I thought it was a deer at first

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Not today flies!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Crap I'm crying heh

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

A real rescue. awesome.

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

When I read 'puppy' my heart sunk. I am amazed this little guy is so healthy and happy after what he went through.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Dogs are so awesome. Most continue to love even when treated horribly or going through terrible ordeals.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Oct 21, 2024 11:40 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

In true dog fashion, Romeo seemed completely unfazed by the traumatic event, happily wagging his tail... (2)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You'll never believe this one simple trick this dog did to resurrect from the dead. - Christians hate him!

9 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 7

A very stupid comment that made me laugh.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

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9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm not crying or slightly hugging my dog a little too tight, you are

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm not hugging your dog, I'm stealing him. Stop blocking the door.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 258 Dislikes 1

This deserves more up votes

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm giving you my upvote through my emotional tears.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

why would you do this to mE

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thank you for reminding me of this movie, and for the gif. v

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I did cpr on a dog all the way to vet today after it was hit by a car. It didn't live...

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Good on you for trying though--that little guy will remember you in heaven one faraway day :)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So sorry.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

v

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Animal Aid is truly awesome! Everyone should donate http://animalaidunlimited.org/how-to-help/donate/.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm not crying you're crying.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

You're not crying, I'm crying!.......wait......No, yeah I'm crying.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Even though I know these stories have happy endings. I can't endure them.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The feels

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why are the words gifs?

9 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 1

I thought the same.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Because fuck data plans

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I was wondering about that. I sat there watching it for a few minutes, thinking I might miss something if I scrolled past.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

It's my new dream to set up an organization like this when I retired. I am still at college but it will be my life goal.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My dog's name is Oliver and he's the best thing to ever happen to me. I'm so happy that dog is happy and healthy. Now I have to hug my pup!!

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I'm not going to lie. I seriously thought it was a young deer judging by the length of the legs.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Dog-deer is alive!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

FUCK YOU DEATH, I'M A GOOD BOY!

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

this deserves to be at the top.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

The goodest boy.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

10/10 thought it was a deer for a bit

9 years ago | Likes 112 Dislikes 1

Same

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My daughter thought he looked like a deer, too.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I think that we all thought it was a deer at first. Thanks so much for rescuing the pupper. Greatly appreciated !

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes, & not me that did the rescue. The great folks in India that work for Animal Aid Unlimited, India did the rescuing.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I mostly hate people but i fucking love these people

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

it is currently 1809 on the east coast and i just sign in to work for a 12 hour shift worth of feels. thank you for that.

9 years ago | Likes 224 Dislikes 7

By "work" you mean smoke breaks and imgur. You've been taught well. You should thank your shift lead for setting such a fine example.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

well, he did help me get to (s)sgt after-all. i guess you're right, i'll let him know when he gets back from his smoke break.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Happy to be your first of the new "day".

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Nurse?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Air Force. And not a nurse.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well, we have the same shift!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

people that actually work usually do ;)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well played.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1809? How's the Madison presidency treating you?

9 years ago | Likes 125 Dislikes 2

How is the Mary Kies patent being received?

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

god, women you know? think they can do whatever the hell they want. all over some damn thread.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

for you, +1

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

well i'm black so not the greatest, but i'm hanging in there.

9 years ago | Likes 118 Dislikes 0

This should have more upvotes

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hang in tight there brother. Sending prayers lol

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hanging? Awkward choice of word there.

9 years ago | Likes 88 Dislikes 1

no it's about right i'm from south carolina.

9 years ago | Likes 78 Dislikes 0

Well keep on hanging in there. Your kids will be swinging from the front tree in no time with the money you are making.

9 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 0

This is the best comment train

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Entymology question - so how do the flies "detect" that the dog is going to die? What attracts flies to that dog even tho he was alive?

9 years ago | Likes 684 Dislikes 2

They collect on my body, too, when I don't move. So, body heat? After showering! Annoying as hell when you try to sleep.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Could be because his body temperature was low. Flies also eat rotting/dead flesh and lay their eggs, even on a living (but dying) animal.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

when your dying your body knows and it starts to shutdown and the flies come

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Flies are attracted to dimethyl trisulfide, released by decaying tissue and bacteria. Severe respiratory infection can release a lot of it.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Due to the respiratory infection the dog had

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

According to google, they have a 7km range of smell.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

According to common sense, that has to depend on things like wind direction and what particular molecules cause the smell

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They are attracted to foul smells in general-- hence why they are attracted to livestock and horse shit.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Thank you, you are now subscribed to Fly Facts!

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

Do you know how people can "smell sick"? Like they get a certain unpleasant odour? I'd imagine something similar for animals 2/

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

also, if the dog lay unmoving, the flies wouldn't be wafted away so they would probably just accumulate...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Flies don't care about alive or dead, merely seek out favourable conditions. Hold still long enough and they'll feed/lay eggs on you too.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The flies aren't drawn to death as such, but it's a stationary piece of meat. The dog probably emanated foul odours from the mouth too

9 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

Flies are attracted to the scent of decay or rotting, (which on a cool side note some plants use to their advantage by getting flies (1)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

To pollinate for them). The poor dog probably smelled sick or was just unmoving and a perfect place for them to try and find moisture (2)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I.e. eyes, nose, mouth, etc to lay their eggs.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*entomology

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Might have mixed it up with Etymology. I wonder where that word comes from.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

It's Greek.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's all Greek to me...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Entomology grad student here. Flies are attracted to certain chemicals that are associated with decaying organic matter. 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2/2 This is how most fly baits attract their targets, although the chemicals are synthetic in the baits.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

3/2 The dog is most likely giving off some of these chemicals in his poor health.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Flies also get all over my horse and he's pretty alive so they don't only like death.

9 years ago | Likes 169 Dislikes 2

Those are a different kind though. Botflies are a common one to bother horses and lay eggs around their legs despite them being alive.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Well your horse smells like shit so

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9 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

Made my night

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are you sure? Does your horse have a black coat, glowing red eyes and can ride up mountains almost vertically?

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9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*whispers* Shadowmere.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Flies don't care if it's alive or dead, they come either way. Only thing that stops them is being scared away by movement.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You mean entOmology. Flies are attracted to moisture (eyes, nose, mouth) and heat (flesh). Live animals swat them away.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Reminds me of the children in Africa with flies landing on their faces. :(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It can't be they're attracted to death, my ex was dead inside but never once saw a fly come near her

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Savage.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Probably would've been if the dead tissue was exposed. Next time, try stabbing her in order to let the flies get at the dead tissue.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, flies land on me if I sit perfectly still for long enough.

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

you have severe respiratory infection

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

U ded

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Sir or madam, I have bad news. You are dying ( but arn't we all... ).

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Good question. Maybe a bug expert will answer. Flies are attracted to foul scents. Maybe the dog was putting out some pre-death odour.

9 years ago | Likes 481 Dislikes 2

Putricine

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I bet, they smell illness.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The dog was starting to rot and flies smelled it first.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Cadaverine

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Maybe it was the infection that was causing the odor.

9 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 0

Could be. Infections do have distinct smells, so you may be on to something.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Flies will even eat a living person if the person is too weak to shoo them away. This is why flies eat at horses legs. They simply can't 1/

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

stamp enough to get the damn things gone. Flies are drawn to blood and the air you exhale just like mosquitoes.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I doubt it had anything to do with "death". He was motionless, smelly af, and covered in bacteria and filth. Fly heaven.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

This.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Flies locate cadavers using their keen sense of smell thanks to powerful olfactory organs located on their feet. They do this thanks to

9 years ago | Likes 306 Dislikes 0

Is that also how you located grandma's G-spot?

9 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 6

Just followed the flies right to her grave, and I think we all know what happened next.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

You know, that's nice and all, but what's up with Euler's number? What made you choose it?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dimethyl trisulfide, which is detectable in concentrations as small as 1 part per trillion, released by decaying organic matter.

9 years ago | Likes 313 Dislikes 0

So was some of his flesh probably starting to rot, then?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fun fact: the heliodiceros muscivirus (dead-horse alum) also gives off this compound, resulting in its dead meat smell and fly attracting.

9 years ago | Likes 220 Dislikes 0

so does Grandma's G spot

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

So what was the dog emitting when it wasn't technically dead (yet)?

9 years ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 0

Damn, that's some cold, sexy science. Well done.

9 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

Thanks for the lesson! @iFoundGrandmasGSpot

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Found the bug expert! Thanks for the awesome info.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I too was wondering if the information you gave was in direct relation to your username.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Very interesting; hilarious username!

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