Fátima Folgado

[Pablo Giralt @giraltpablo]

"GRACIAS MESSI" 🥹❤️

Monumento Nacional a la Bandera. Rosario, Argentina.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Messi leading out the national team will forever be iconic 🔥🇦🇷

[Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1]

🚨 Attention dog lovers 🚨

Major is a Belgian Malinois service dog.

He has spent more than 545 days alone in an isolation kennel at the Austin Animal Center.

No walks.

No pets.

No people.

Now the city wants to put him down.

Here's what happened:

* March 2025, a pickup truck hit Major.

* He was hurt and in pain, and a woman who stopped to help tried to lift him into a car.

* He bit her.

* A municipal judge ordered him euthanized as a danger to the public.

* His human, Shane Lilly, has fought it through the Texas Supreme Court ever since.

Now a federal judge has put the euthanasia on hold and is expected to decide within days whether an independent trainer can evaluate Major for rehabilitation.

More than 54,000 people have signed the petition to free him.

An injured dog snapped while a stranger was moving him.

After a year and a half in solitary, Austin's answer is a needle?

Want to help?

Here's who to reach out to:

Austin Animal Services: 512-974-2000
Mayor Kirk Watson's office: 512-978-2100

Ask them to agree to an independent evaluation and release Major to a qualified trainer.

Please share this and let's get as many people as possible to help this pup!!

[Baby Girl 🌹🕊🌹🌹🕊🌹 @nanahendrix66]

Absolutely 💯 percent true! 😵😩😞

[Guadalupe Ramirez @GRamirezF_D12]

Buenos días Feliz inicio de semana ✨💖

[Tiger @tiger26931]

NEVER FORGET 🙏🙏

[Lj Priest (Trader Jill) @RealTraderJill]

The Unsung Heroes of 9/11

They were trained for one thing: find the living, bark, get the toy, win.

More than 300 search dogs climbed the pile after the towers fell. Hot steel. Dust. 24 hr shifts. They expected what every drill had promised. People still breathing underneath.

Almost no one was.

The last survivor came out about 27 hrs after the collapse. After that the dogs kept searching for a scent that was no longer there. Tails dropped. Sadness in every line of their bodies. They would still work. They just stopped getting the joy that made the work make sense.

So their people hid in the rubble. A firefighter. A cleanup worker. Out of camera range. The dog would find someone alive, get the toy, get the praise, and for a moment light up again like the world still worked the way it was supposed to.

Debra Tosch, there with her Lab Abby, said it was like working weeks without a paycheck. When they get that toy, it’s like they’ve gotten paid. Handlers called them mock finds. What they really were was a kindness. A way of telling a partner, you did it, good dog, I still need you.

They offered everything anyway.

They also did the job no one certified them for. Men who had just heard a friend’s body called over the radio buried their faces in a dog’s neck until they could stand. That was the other rescue. Not of the dead. Of the living still standing in the ash, held up for a minute by an animal who only wanted to help.

[Tiger @tiger26931]

Today, none of the known 9/11 search dogs remain alive. Yet their courage, loyalty and service have never been forgotten.
Twenty-five years later, we remember every life lost, every person who ran towards danger—and the remarkable animals who stood faithfully beside them.

[11 Cats @11CatsNetwork]

The rescue dogs of 9/11...

[SteelHide Smitty🌈Wess🌈Chester🌈KimberJosie Chief @HideSteel]

#NeverForget

[Lock&load @Lockload15]

There are so many heroes we remember from 9/11. And some of them had four legs.

[Janice🩷🎗️💙 🌊 🐬 @bluedolphin444]

Beautiful monument 🐾

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

The Dog Who Wouldn't Stop Searching

On September 11, 2001, Apollo disappeared into a hole in the rubble at Ground Zero.

Then a fireball erupted.

Seconds later, the German Shepherd came running back toward his handler, NYPD Officer Peter Davis.

Apollo was on fire.

Davis brushed the burning embers from his thick coat.

And Apollo went right back to searching.

Apollo was nine years old—an age when many police dogs had already retired. But that morning, he and Davis became the first canine search-and-rescue team to arrive at Ground Zero.

The conditions were brutal.

To reach the rubble, Davis later recalled wading through water that came nearly to his waist. Apollo searched across jagged concrete and dangerously hot debris. His coat was singed. His paws became cracked and bruised.

Still, he searched.

Apollo had been trained to find the living. But as the hours passed, the terrible reality of the site became clearer. Eventually, Davis had to physically pull Apollo away from the debris when the dog refused to stop looking.

And Apollo wasn't alone.

Search-and-rescue dogs and their handlers worked through wreckage, dust and toxic fumes in the aftermath of the attacks. Apollo became a symbol of all of them.

On March 5, 2002, he was awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal for courage and devotion to duty. Apollo had been selected by ballot to receive the honor on behalf of every search-and-rescue dog that had worked at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Apollo lived to be 14.

Twenty-five years later, we remember the people who ran toward danger that morning.

Apollo reminds us that not all of them ran on two legs.
❤️🐾

[The Beach From Florida @BeachFrmFL]

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[ChristyFromTO @Christy_fromTO]

Don't forget these 9.11 heroes

[Fátima Folgado @FtimaFolgado]

@RussianBerner RIP 😢🙏🙏

[RevaliTheBerner @RussianBerner]

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On September 11, 2001, dogs served in different ways across the World Trade Center disaster — searching rubble, detecting danger, and guiding people through smoke-filled stairwells to safety.
Apollo, an NYPD German Shepherd, searched the ruins of Ground Zero alongside rescue crews.
Bretagne, a young Golden Retriever with Texas Task Force 1, worked through dust, twisted steel, and devastation. Years later, she became widely remembered as the last known surviving 9/11 search-and-rescue dog.
Jake, a black Labrador who had once been abandoned and badly injured, grew up to become a certified search-and-rescue dog. After 9/11, he spent days working through the wreckage at Ground Zero.
Sirius, a Port Authority Police yellow Labrador trained to detect explosives, was inside the World Trade Center that morning. His handler, Officer David Lim, secured him before rushing to help others evacuate.
Lim survived.
Sirius did not.
He became known as the only police dog killed in the 9/11 attacks.
And then there were Roselle and Salty.
They weren’t searching the rubble.
They were guide dogs.
Roselle helped her blind handler, Michael Hingson, escape from the 78th floor of the North Tower.
Salty helped his blind handler, Omar Rivera, descend from the 71st floor.
Through darkness, noise, fear, crowded stairwells, and chaos, they kept moving.
Six dogs.
Six very different stories.
Search dogs. Police dogs. Guide dogs.
None of them knew the meaning of terrorism.
None understood why that morning had changed America forever.
They simply did what they had been trained to do — and stayed beside the people who depended on them.
More than two decades later, their names still deserve to be remembered.
Apollo. Bretagne. Jake. Sirius. Roselle. Salty.
They searched.
They guided.
They served.
Never forget September 11, 2001. 🇺🇸🐾
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