Some more Cart Photos

I love looking at old photos. They provide a view into our past. These are quite interesting. Obviously, if you couldn't afford a car, you could perhaps chose of of the transportation methods below?

Camel express...not noted for speed.

A bit far from the North Pole.

 

Fast but I wonder how the steering is....

OK, unless there is a lion about....

 

Well, I spoke too soon,  as here is a lion...next to two sheep....then a bear.....

 

 

Dog paralyzed by spine damage walking again

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As he strolls across the lawn, it is hard to believe Jasper the dachshund was unable to use his hind legs just two years ago.  Paralysed in an accident, he needed years of physiotherapy and a special trolley to get around.  But scientists conducting a study at Cambridge University have helped him walk again with a pioneering treatment that offers hope for human patients with spinal injuries.

Breakthrough: Pet dogs left paralysed by spine damage have been able to walk again after pioneering cell treatment. This image shows Jasper the dog at the start of a trial with his rear legs limp and unusable

 

Better: After six months of treatment, Jasper's legs are seen walking almost normally. The treatment involves injecting cells from the dogs' nose into the injured part of their back

 

Injecting cells from the dog’s nose into the injured part of his spine helped repair the damage. After the treatment, Jasper was able to move his previously paralysed hind legs and co-ordinate movement with his front limbs. The ten-year-old dog is now ‘whizzing around’ unassisted and can also swim.

Early trials involving humans have taken place, and Professor Robin Franklin, co-author of the study from the Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, said: ‘Our findings are extremely exciting because they show for the first time that transplanting these types of cell into a severely damaged spinal cord can bring about significant improvement.

 

 

‘We’re confident the technique might be able to restore at least a small amount of movement in human patients with spinal cord injuries, but that’s a long way from saying they might be able to regain all lost function.

‘It’s more likely that this procedure might one day be used as part of a combination of treatments, alongside drug and physical therapies, for example.’

Smiling again: Jasper is shown six months after the treatment walking on a treadmill without any aid. His owner says she now 'can't stop him whizzing round the house' and that he is able to keep up with other dogs

In the study, published in the journal Brain, scientists looked at 34 pet dogs with severe spinal injuries that left them unable to use their back legs to walk. Those injected with olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) from their noses showed a considerable improvement, moving previously paralysed limbs. Some also regained lost bowel and bladder control.

A second group treated with a placebo showed no benefits. Previous research suggests OECs, which maintain the communication pathway between the nose and the brain, can help form a bridge between damaged and undamaged parts of the spine by regenerating nerve fibres.

The latest study was the first conducted on animals at least 12 months after their spines were damaged in accidents. Scientists say this more closely resembles a scenario that would involve human patients. Jasper suffered a slipped disk that left his hind legs paralysed in 2008. His owner, May Hay, said: ‘Before the trial, he was unable to walk at all. When we took him out we used a sling for his back legs so he could exercise the front ones. It was heartbreaking.

‘But now we can’t stop him whizzing around the house and he can even keep up with the two other dogs we own. It’s utterly magic.’

HOW THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED

 

Scientists studied 34 pet dogs that had all suffered spinal cord injuries as a result of accidents and back problems. None were injured deliberately for the sake of research.

A year or more after their injuries, the animals were unable to use their back legs to walk and incapable of feeling pain in their hindquarters. Many of the dogs were dachshunds, which are especially prone to this type of injury. Unlike humans, dogs can suffer serious damage to their spinal cord just by having a slipped disc.

One group of dogs had OECs taken from the lining of their own noses and injected into the injury site. Another was only injected with the liquid in which the cells were suspended. The trial was 'double blind', meaning that until the study ended neither the researchers nor the dog owners knew which animals had received the active treatment.

 

Dogs were tested for neurological function at one month intervals and had their walking ability assessed on a treadmill. Significant improvement was seen in the dogs injected with OECs, but not those receiving the placebo treatment, according to the findings reported in the journal Brain.

OEC-treated dogs moved previously paralysed hind limbs and co-ordinated the movement with that of their front legs. However, the researchers found that new nerve connections were only generated over short distances within the spinal cord.  

 

 

 

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Simon's Cat and the Christmas Tree

I love these videos of this cat! Wonderfully done.

 

Are you smarter than a Sheep?

I found this test and thought you might like this. I got all of them right. Whew, it was a tough test but I managed to succeed. See if you are smarter than a Sheep!

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T	F	1	The ram went over the cliff because he did not see the "U" turn.
T	F	2	The ram committed suicide after hearing the hit song "There Will Never Be Another You."
T	F	3	Virgin Wool comes from sheep that are both fast and ugly.
T	F	4	The ewes did not get pregnant because they were under the weather.
T	F	5	During the breeding season, an odd number of rams must be put with the ewes. One ram will breed ewes; two will spend their time fighting; with 3 rams, 2 fight and one breeds, etc. , etc. , etc.
T	F	6	Willard Straight Hall (the Comell student union) is an example of a creep feeder .
T	F	7	If Papa Ram weighs 200 lb and Mama Ewe weighs 140, J.R. Ewing's ideal slaughter weight would be 102 lb.
T	F	8	Twin lambs can be said to be wombmates.
T	F	9	Half-sib twin lambs usually are produced by white-faced ewes because "blondes have more fun."
T	F	10	Aab, Aab, is the typical sound of a dyslectic lamb
T	F	11	A hot-house lamb must be potted before sale.
T	F	12	Ewe-tah is the most important sheep state in the U.S.
T	F	13	The Booroola Merino gene manifests itself in the double recessive (bb) form when lambs stand on their hind legs and say "booroola, booroola."
T	F	14	Corried Ale is a fermented beverage made from sheep's milk by Australian shepherds in the outback.
T	F	15	Orf; Orf, is a sound made by baby lambs when they are hungry.
T	F	16	Proper protocol requires that before disposal of a dead sheep, it must have the wool pulled over its eyes.
T	F	17	Rambo-llet is a synthetic breed developed by Sylvester Stallone.
T	F	18	Each year in March, sheep breeders in Finland gather together and enter their top rams in the finnish Land Race.
T	F	19	St. Croix is a church in France for shepherds.
T	F	20	The two hormones necessary to initiate and synchronize estrus in anestrous ewes are TLC and PTL.
T	F	21	Several rams competing for a cycling ewe in an accelerated lambing system is referred to as STAR wars.
T	F	22	The French have recently announced an improved old English breed, now called the Lincoln Continental.
T	F	23	Eileen is one of Brian Magee's ewes that grew up on a hillside with one set of legs shorter than the other.
T	F	24	Flushing is the process of giving sheep large quantities of water to clean out their system.
T	F	25	The Tunis was "Red" Skelton's favorite breed of sheep.
T	F	26	Fall-bom dwarf lambs are usually named Sneezy, Dopey, Doc, Bashful, etc., and sold as Hot-House lambs at 30 to 40 lb.
T	F	27	Sheep that don't pay their bills are known as I.O. Ewes.
T	F	28	Sssisss BOOM BAAaa! are the last three sounds of an exploding sheep.
T	F	29	The Happy Hunting Ground of Sheepdom is known as Ewe-topia.
T	F	30	The Southdown breed received its name when it was noted that all of the sheep face south when they lie down.
T	F	31	Blue tongue is a perceived disease of sheep usually occurring in August in sheep grazing pastures infested with wild blueberries.
T	F	32	The term "mob-stocking" originated in Chicago in the 1920's when Al Capone used shipments of ladies stockings to disguise contraband liquor.
T	F	33	Mulsing is a term originating in the 1800's in Australia when sheep were trailed into the outback behind mule drawn wagons.

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