Tag Archives: South Carolina

Suryia and Roscoe – a special friendship

This story came to me a few weeks ago via a friend’s email.  So I did a bit of digging to get the full story.

Suryia is an Orangutan and Roscoe is a a Blue Tick Hound.  They live together at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in South Carolina, where they met in 2008 when a thin Roscoe followed caregivers back to the reserve.

The two became fast friends and now have a book about their story.

When you purchase it from their website, proceeds go to support wild orangutan conservation in Borneo.

Ordinarily, dogs and primates don’t mix but this pair proves an exception to that rule!

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Black lab puppy, rescued from freight train, finds a new home

A self-confessed dog fanatic in South Carolina was driving home on Sunday evening.  As a freight train passed, she spotted a frightened little puppy on the top of a large  freight car that was traveling at 50 mph.

Tina Parker called 911 to have the train stopped and firefighters rescued the puppy.  Tina has adopted her, saying it was ‘fate.’  The three-month old puppy has been named Boxcar Hunter, Boxy for short.  Boxy joins a household of two other dogs.

WYFF news covered this story, mounted here courtesy of YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Ru6rxfZvY