Three-year-old Springer Spaniel Alice was given only days to live when vets found that her heart was only working at a third of its capacity.  Her family couldn’t afford the expensive surgery, so they started a fundraiser.  Within hours, residents in their small UK village pitched in enough to save Alice’s life!

“Alice is normally so lively and is obsessed with playing with her tennis balls, but suddenly, she wasn’t interested,” Siouxie Nelson told the Mirror.

“Then she began to faint, which was really distressing… I heard her walking into the room but as I turned around to greet her she fell to the floor.”

An exam determined that she had a life-threatening heart condition and needed a pacemaker to stay alive.  Siouxie and her husband Richard were devastated that they couldn’t afford it.  The Nelsons have some money set aside for vet expenses, but the bill – about $7,000 – was well out of their price range.  They weren’t going to give up, though.  Alice is a family member – she even went with the newlyweds on their honeymoon.

Siouxie started an online fundraiser out of desperation, and told friends and family about it.  She checked on the page later that day, and was gobsmacked to find that over £2,000 ($3,000) had already been donated!

Her Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire neighbors had heard about their misfortune, and contributed what they could.

“It’s a small village, so everyone knows Alice,” Siouxie said. “She’s so friendly, so everyone wanted to help her when she heard she was ill.

“The operation was a no-brainer for us, we would do anything for her.”

“Anyone who is a dog lover will understand how much they mean to you and are a member of your family.”

An update was posted to the fundraiser page yesterday:

“Alice had her pacemaker check on Friday she is finally signed off the sick! Hooray! The specialist said that she uses her pacemaker over 99% of the time, so lucky she had it when she did! She also has at least 8 years of battery life in her current pacemaker!  We just want to say a massive thank you again to everyone so much for supporting us, Alice is back playing with her tennis ball again!”

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On Monday the nine-week-old puppy was given to three-year-old Sapphyre Johnson who is missing both of her feet. ‘He’s just like me!,’ the toddler exclaimed with joy the first time she ever saw a photo of Lt. Dan.

The dog’s original owner Karen Riddle said that Lt. Dan, who was born with eight other puppies in a litter – and could have been euthanized.

Missing their feet: Of the nine pups in the litter, Lt. Dan, named for the character in Forest Gump who lost his legs, was the only one missing a paw and Sapphyre Johnson had to have her feet amputated

On Monday, the nine-week-old puppy Lt. Dan without a paw found a new home with Sapphyre Johnson, a toddler who lost both of her feet

Just like me!: Sapphyre and Lt. Dan made fast friends on Monday and the two will grow up together at Sapphyre’s family’s home in Tennesee

Sapphyre, who is from Tennessee, has been in the hospital ever since she was just three-months-old.

‘When I was seven months pregnant, they did an ultra sound and told us she may be missing some fingers and toes,’ said Sapphyre’s mother, Ashley Johnson.

‘They don’t know what caused it,’ she said.

Different: Lt.Dan was the only one out of nine puppies who was born without a paw and fellow breeders suggested to his original owner that he be put down

Brilliant Idea: Rather than kill Lt. Dan because he was different, his original owner Karen Riddle suggested that he be placed in a home with a wounded veteran or special needs child

Shriners gives prosthetics and orthopedic services to children under 18 no matter what their family’s income is.

‘She had just two really long toes on each foot. And when she was 1, we had them amputated so she could be fitted for prosthetics,’ said Sapphyre’s mother.

Shriners even suggested prosthetic leg could be made for Lt.Dan when he grows large enough.

When Sapphyre saw a picture of her new puppy she knew that she had to have him and she felt an instant connection.

‘The first time I showed her a picture of the dog, she looked at it for a moment, and she said, “That’s my puppy. He’s just like me,” ‘ said Elaine Hardin who works at Shriners.

‘He’s a special dog and he’s going to a special child.’

Hardin told Greenville Online that the dog will help Sapphyre make friends and will also help her to explain her disability to other kids.

‘In the future, I could see Sapphyre at her first show-and-tell in school and she could bring in her dog and explain about her dog and herself,’ Hardin said.

‘Everybody loves dogs and they’ll want to know about her dog that’s special like her.’

On Monday Saphyyre was so happy to have her new puppy.

‘Lt. Dan, Lt. Dan,’ she called out to her new furry friend.

The puppy felt so at home with his new owners that it fell asleep in the car as Sapphyre made her way home to Tennessee with her family.

Right at home: The puppy felt so at home with his new owners that it fell asleep in the car as Sapphyre made her way home to Tennessee with her family.

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That is exactly what happened in the video below! The woman covers her dog with a blanket and rubs it all over her dog. When she stands up to remove the blanket, her furry friend had that “hair-raising experience”! You can see the dog’s hair standing straight up due to static electricity! The electrons were transferred from the blanket to the dog’s hair. And because objects of the same charge repel each other, the strands of the dog’s hair are trying to get far away from each other. Amazing, right?

That’s quite an interesting hairdo you have there, doggy!

Well there you go! That’s static electricity at work! You learn something new everyday!

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