Rescue Dog Rescue with John Oliver 

My dog was 7 when I adopted him. He is 10 now and I love him so much. Every minute we have together is a joy.

I've adopted a few older dogs. Puppies are precious but so are grandma and grandpa babies. That's what I call them. Everyone of them has brought me so much happiness.

You are so right. Seniors are easy as well.

I agree that it's important to showcase senior dogs, but they seem to work consistently with North Shore Animal League, which gets puppy mill puppies by the truckloads on a weekly basis. It's important to get them adopted so that North Shore has the space and resources to help the dogs that are harder to adopt.

My family basically exclusively adopts older dogs. Love them all

Especially not these cute and healthy puppies who basically looks pure bread to me, an untrained dogeye..

I totally agree. ❤️

I don't get it either because I love dogs when they are older! They don't tear stuff up and are house trained. Most are more calm, but that's just me.

I was thinking the same thing

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On long island?

Beautiful memory, special love 💕

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@@dannykavanaugh6257 yep!

She was chilling because she was waiting for the someone who was going to love her for HER WHOLE LIFE!

i know 😂

I'm wondering if he's a cat person like me.

You can hear him quietly telling each one “it’s okay” while he’s picking them up

@@muffininorbit each one... or himself?

@@lorigoshert6667 he has a dog but he definitely gives me cat person vibes (I am also a cat person 😂)

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Oh, they are the classiest, kindest, funniest and most genuine duo in the game! ✌️♥️

I agree, funny when they both look at each other and you know they are thinking the same thing. The long pause (easpcially at the end) says a lot!

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Every time at least 100 people request this but it’s ignored

Yes. Dress them up like Stephen Colbert

Me, toooooo! 🥰

I'm hoping Conan does a yearly circuit visiting other shows now that he's retired. Always felt like he was great with other late night hosts.

Jon heard you!

Agreed and they are also wonderful, relaxed pets. I only adopt seniors - it is so hard to lose them, but it feels so good to give a senior dog or cat some happiness and comfort.

@@___3988 it's really nice that you do that.

Most people get from breeders because they don't realize shelters have puppies. So they are still helping animals and giving a fuck you to greeders with this segment: www.watchdominion.com

My senior rescue and I agree 100%!

We adopted an older dog from an abusive home. He was so scared of humans at first, but after years of spoiling him (he was old and sad, we had no choice!) Smokey would put his head under your hand and nudge you if you weren't petting him enough! He was the chillest dachshund I've ever met. Oh, he'd bark of someone knocked at the door and chase after our cats (well, he chased after April. Our old cat, Chet, who had to be.... at least 15 when this happened, took one look at these two new interlopers stealing his daddy's lap, took a few good swipes at them, and after that both weenies would jump off my dad's lap and hide when Chet came in a room! The one time Smokey did corner a kitten that my sister brought home, we freaked out, only to find the poor thing on the ground, clearly terrified, but Smokey was just... Licking it. He'd lick and lick then bark. I don't think he understood what to do once you tracked down your quarry!) But he wasn't whiney or protective like other dachshund 's often get. Smokey didn't care who you were, if you were willing to sit on the couch or his favored chair and just chill with him, he liked you. If you had chicken, all the better. The vet put him at over 20 when he passed. He went in his sleep, curled up in the big fluffy dog bed that we got him, burrowed deep in the blankets that were all for him. His last few years of life he went deaf and blind in one eye, and by the end could hardly see at all. But he still ran around using his "guide dog" Beanie, and later Francie. He even deaf and blind he knew every time the fridge opened, let me tell you, especially since towards the end he had to take pills and couldn't have hard food, so it was all soft bits of chicken, all the time. Haha, he probably thought he was living the life of a king! We never had him walk up steps or jump, we carried him everywhere, set him down, gave him chicken and blankets and love. He was the happiest dog ever. I'm so glad we took him in. The shealter, they literally couldn't find any one to take him. He was old, he'd been in a bad situation, his teeth were already bad and his ears where slightly frayed (frost bite, from the inhumane pieces of garbage that had kept him before), he was a mix of a mini and full sized dachshund - possibly something else in there, he was the length of mini but he had shoulders like a linebacker! - and he was black, brown and white rather than the more classic red. No one wanted this dog. My parents didn't even want him, at least when they went to the shelter they were there to pick up Bean (Bean was also a mini/full mix, but he was only 3 years old, was the handsomest cinnamon colored dachshund you'd ever seen, and was much more what people think of and look for when they think dachshund. He had some attachment issues after his first owner gave him up as a puppy, then his second family had abandoned him a park in crate with a bowl of water, but not the kind of behavioral issues that might make him hard to adopt by a family, he just needed a lot of attention and people to be around) and the rescue agency explained that "Cinnabun" (Bean) and "Slinky" (Smokey, because he use to literally get on his belly and crawl around when people approached him, he was so use to getting beaten.... God, I hate the people who did that so, so much) were so attached to one another that if we agreed to take Slinky they would pay for all their shots and paperwork. (For the record, Smokey could do with or without Bean. Bean, however, was incredible attached to Smokey. Bean had people and dogs he liked, and everyone else was just an enemy trying to separate him from his Forever Soul Mates... Until you left him for more than two days, in which case he would attach himself leach like to whoever was around and they would become his New Favorite Person.) Of course my parents, who have a long history of taking in animals, and they couldn't say no to this older dog who so needed a home. They only worried because my siblings and them had all met Bean before then, and what if none of us really connected with "Slinky"? But even if we weren't the perfect family for him, we had to be better than no family at all. Not that it mattered because we were absolutely the perfect family for him. Or he was just the perfect dog. Of our pets, four have been from rescue shelters, three we found on the streets/homeless, five were adopted at vet clinics/emergency vet hospitals, one was adopted through a rehoming program, one was adopted from a friend who decided it was too much work, and on three different occasions someone in my family has straight up pet-napped a dog from abusive/negligent owners which, to be clear, is not something I personally endorse. Of all those, one was a kitten and five were puppies, while four of the dogs and three of the cats were older (the others being between 2 and 5ish, I'd say). And I can't say there is a mountain of differences. No, okay, I prefer the older animals but that's a personal bias (even the ones like Diesel that my sister found as a puppy, I just think he's chiller now that he's older.) Also, of our thee pets that made it to ANCIENT (though at 17, Diesel is slowly making his way there!), one my dad got as a puppy while the other two were already older. Smokey was "over five" when we got him; not elderly, but considering what he'd been through, more than old enough. As for Chet, the single most awesome cat to have ever live? Again, hard to say for certain. My dad found him at a rescue center they had gone to looking for a fluffy white kitten my sister had her heart set on. As they were leaving, this black paw just emerged from the bars of it's cage, swatting at my dad as he walked him. My dad turned and there was this cat just staring him down, almost glaring until my dad reached on to scratch at his cheek. There was a sign next to him that simply said, "Last Chance Adoption". My dad asked and was told that Chet was scheduled to be put down later that week. He'd been there for over two years - found on the street, caught by animal control, the vet put him "between 6 and 10" though I suspect he might have been younger but definitely no kitten, plus apparently black cats are harder to adopt out to begin with which seems crazy - no one was interested in adopting him, and they couldn't afford to keep every animal forever. So we agreed to forget about some imaginary white kitty cat and came home with a big old black tom. Chet was the single coolest cat ever. My siblings and I still joke because every other cat after Chet, no matter how much we love them, has been just a little bit of a disappointment. Seriously, no other cat I've ever met had even half as much personality and swagger as Chet. And it's not that he was one of those cats that's cool because he acted like a dog. Chet was ALL CAT, he was also just like.... The MOST Cat you could ask for. We had that cat from the time I was in 2nd grade, until the start of my junior year of university. That cat was nearly of not 20 when he went out one day and didn't come back, and he was amazing for every single second of it. Best cat ever.

Will be great if wey cared of people as much wey cared about puppies. Talking about dog adoption while the number of european refugees increase, seems out of place, and nota so comedy suit to make ir worth it

Sorry, may i justo cared about life for a moment.....when there is no need

*brillent

I prefer black cats, young or old. How about a Rescue Cat Rescue segment?

Rescue for Senior Citizens? “This is Ruby. She likes bingo, blue hair dye and complaining about her grandchildren.”

Every single time they do this segment, the top comments are around doing the same with older dogs, and every time they ignore it and do puppies again! I find it pretty frustrating tbh

Puppies are easier to handle.

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This one

@@DimShamrock What do puppies have to do with this?

And senior dogs are just as cute fr!

Most people get from breeders because they don't realize shelters have puppies. So they are still helping animals and giving a fuck you to greeders with this segment: www.watchdominion.com

I get cats instead of dogs, but I try to choose older cats, specifically cats that have been "in the joint" the longest. Kittens and puppies are a lot easier for shelters to place, and I hate the idea of a pet sitting unadopted for that kind of reason.

14 is kind of young though? Maybe she got cancer

I am so sorry for losing your Smokey. I hope you'll find a good cat for you in the future. (And your mom is awesome!)

Sorry for your loss, our furry friends are family. 🐾

I would love to see cats and adult dogs.

I was about to complain your comment... I'm sorry: you are totally right.

You are right, however, all adoption is positive. When someone does something nice, saying "You should have done more" is a dick move. Just saying.

Furthermore, just getting more exposure to adoption is a massive win. A large portion of the US still gets their dogs primarily from puppy mills. Any person who sees this and decides to adopt a puppy vs buy a puppy from a mill is a win.

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Normally you’re right, it’s just that there are so many litters of puppies out there that do go unclaimed. All of those older dogs were puppies who weren’t in the right place on the right time to find their forever home. These are and we’re all better for seeing them find it right?

Someone mentioned that before, and you're both right.

I see what you did there and I sure like it!

Agree 💯

Totally agreed. My first own dog was 6 when I adopted him and he was with me for ten magical years. I still miss him. My current dog was somewhere in the four-years-estimate when I got her four years ago. I will probably not have a puppy again in my life - not because they're not adorable, but because an adult dog fits with me much better. You can assess whether they would be good in your living-situation much better than with a pup

My dog was 7 when I rescued him, now 10. He won a Kpop competition and paid off all my student loans!

@@Spoony717 What? This sounds like a hilarious story! Congratulations to your dog and good for him to being so generous and paying your loan back from his winnings ;-) LOL I bet a cat wouldn't have given you even a dime (just kidding!!)

Damn that's dangerously naive thinking. You should probably research more about humans, lest you think a psychopath would learn compassion around an animal instead of torture and kill them or use them as ammo to torture you

@@kevinbissinger I'm sorry someone hurt you. The vast majority of us are not psychopaths. Service animals are often brought into prisons, with good results in reducing acting out... Because people crave connection and animals are better at seeing the good in us than other people. Why does your mind go to a worst case situation?

@@kevinbissinger But it's true. Dogs go to hospitals to make sad, sick children feel better. I have stress and depression. My dogs help me get through with it otherwise it would make my seizures go crazy.

@@kevinbissinger you must be fun at parties

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You clearly never saw Tom Holland clips with puppies :) , e.g. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3miuxAnawmM.html

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I am generally pro pet, but where I have ever lived folks allow their CATS outside at all hours, particularly at night. So I could probably care less (most times) about a " rescue " for what I perceive to be quasi-wild animals. But then again, I think things like a Squirrel Rescue are stupid, too.

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Hell yeah…

Agreed

Wonderfully awesome! Puppies! 😀😀😇

As an Englishman, I concur! 😂

I don't know where you are in Australia, but, watch Doggy Day Care Farm Trips. When they were shut down, due to Covid, "The Farm" rehabilitated dogs for adoption. There was only one they weren't able to get adopted, but, he became the perfect family pet. Freddo in a Rottweiler. THEY ended up adopting him, and, three Lab Puppies.

@@QUICKBOOKS1 That sounds really good. The place is in Jilliby which is about 75-90 minutes drive from here. Here being where I currently reside. Thanks for informing me of this place.