Ambimama - India

Dogs are very sensitive and clever. Their attachment to the Family Leader is great.

We had a Labrador by name Elizabeth and we used to call her Elzi. Brownish Golden colour. She was a true virgin, till her death.

She was a pure vegetarian. And without training she would understand what to do. She would sincerely wait her turn for breakfast, lunch or dinner and only our Mom should serve her, though Mom totally disliked dogs. She would wait patiently at the Kitchen door. She has never entered the kitchen, as my Mom does not like that.

We chose the Best Vet to maintain her and my brother regularly took her to Vet Clinics for vaccines and ticks treatment.

She was more like a true Virgin, Mother and loved our family. She died a few days before my father died sleeping peacefully under his bed. My father totally paralyzed was in bed ridden for more than 2 years. Tears came into his eyes when Elzi died.

We buried her in our backyard with all respects.We tried to get new puppies to remember. We tried very hard.

Somehow my son hates dogs because of two experiences – one with a stray dog and the other with an Alsatian. I agree dogs sometimes behave like wild animals, even though domesticated. And I have faced stray dogs’ problems many times in my Life – like chasing my bike, barking while I do small repairs to my bike.

But if the owner is correct, the dogs obey. But sure stray dogs population should be controlled or eliminated. And I am happy that the Local Administration Minister Stalin in Tamilnadu is taking efforts to this effect apart from building flyovers (his passion for flyovers is really fascinating) and other developments to make Chennai more beautiful.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Adnan Hajj was the most-searched term on the Technorati Web site, which tracks what is being discussed in the blogosphere. And a rendering of his work was one of the most viewed videos on YouTube.

Hajj, a Lebanese photographer based in the Middle East, may not be familiar to many newspaper readers. But thanks to the swift justice of the Internet, he has been charged, tried and convicted of improperly altering photographs he took for Reuters. The pictures ran on the Reuters news service on Saturday, and were discovered almost instantly by bloggers to have been manipulated. Reuters then announced on Sunday that it had fired the freelancer. Executives said Tuesday that they were still investigating why they had not discovered the manipulation before the pictures were disseminated to newspapers.
The matter has created an uproar on the Internet, where many bloggers see an anti-Israel bias in Hajj’s manipulations, which made the damage from Israeli strikes into Beirut appear worse than the original pictures had. One intensified and replicated plumes of smoke from smoldering debris. In another, he changed an image of an Israeli plane to make it look as if it had dropped three flares instead of one.
Still, Reuters officials said they were unaware that any American newspapers had run the two pictures in question, although dozens of papers, including The New York Times, have printed his pictures over the years.
The Times, which ran a picture of his as recently as Saturday on its front page, has published eight of Hajj’s Associated Press and Reuters photographs since March 2005. Times editors said a review of those pictures found none that appeared to have been changed improperly.
Still, his activities have heightened the anxiety photo editors are already experiencing in the age of digital photography, when pictures can be so easily manipulated by computer.
But even as technology makes it easier to manipulate photographs, the blogosphere is making it easier to catch the manipulators.

Hajj told Reuters he was merely trying to remove a speck of dust and fix the lighting in the photos, Holmes said. Several bloggers have contended that Hajj was driven by a political agenda, critical of Israel. Holmes said Reuters was trying to contact Hajj but he was not responding to messages.