<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/834a9da2-9c1c-4cec-88bd-a12af0ae17e2/4BE7CDC2-3E83-44B4-8050-5BC5B3910289/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.chinadailyasia.com/en/email/standard_asia/details.html?id=735" href="http://news.chinadailyasia.com/en/email/standard_asia/details.html?id=735" style="font-size: 11px;">news.chinadailyasia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.chinadailyasia.com/en/email/standard_asia/details.html?id=735"><P dragover="true">In the Sichuan earthquake, pets were not just the objects of rescue. </p> <P dragover="true">In a few cases, they were the heroes who saved people.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.chinadailyasia.com/en/email/standard_asia/details.html?id=735"><P>In a Beichuan police station, a pug-dog dragged 43-year-old Li Guolin out of a fourth-floor room when the quake hit. </p> <P>Another dog was a "professional rescuer", not a pet. </p> <P>We know only the name of his breeder, a soldier surnamed Li.</p> <P>Li's "best friend" worked for several days and helped locate 35 survivors. </p> <P>But in one search for survivors, he was crushed to death when a building collapsed. </p> <P>Li was heard crying into the night.</p> <P></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.chinadailyasia.com/en/email/standard_asia/details.html?id=735"><P>That gives rise to a moral dilemma: Should humans save animals — pets and livestock — in the wake of such a mammoth natural disaster?</p> <P>Opinions differ: Some say pets offer priceless companionship and therefore justify extra effort to save them, while others resent the sacrifice of soldiers to save "stupid animals".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.chinadailyasia.com/en/email/standard_asia/details.html?id=735">it's wonderful that rescuers have dug out pets trapped in rubble, but I don't think a soldier or volunteer should risk his life to do it.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4BE7CDC2-3E83-44B4-8050-5BC5B3910289/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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