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Apr-19-2008Marooned pup rescued by cruise ship(topic overview)
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Snickers is an 8 month old shipwrecked Cocker Spaniel who hitched a ride on the Pride of Aloha. '''When we first found him on the Island, he wouldn't let you near him, so it's miraculous,''' said one of the crew members. Snickers has been treated like top dog since the crew picked him up one week ago. '''Of course, they all spoiled him rotten while he was here,''' said the Pride of Aloha Captian Evans Hoyt. His previous owners abandoned Snickers and their Macaw Gulliver on Fanning Island, after drifting at sea on their boat for 3 months. '''They were able to catch a supply ship and make their way back home to California, but the ship wouldn't allow Snickers to join them,''' said Gina Baurile, from the Hawaiian Humane Society. Las Vegas pet lover Jack Joslin read about Snickers' saga in a boating journal, and called the Hawaiian Humane Society to find out how he could rescue the pets. [1] Snickers has been living in the lap of luxury for the last week as the first pet on the Pride of Aloha. The 8-month-old cocker spaniel was a little uneasy with all the attention but he is a much different dog now than when the cruise ship first came to his rescue, according to crewmembers. "(He was) very unsure of himself and a little bit suspicious of people and it was amazing how just in the course of the first 24 hours and day by day he turned right around," said Evans Hoyt, the captain of the Pride of Aloha. Snickers and his owners were traveling from California to Hawaii in a boat when they ran into trouble. "They were drifting at sea for about 95 days and landed on Fanning Island. His owners were there for about two weeks and they were able to catch a supply ship and make their way back home to California but the ship wouldn't allow Snickers to join them," explained Gina Baurile of the Hawaiian Humane Society.[2]
The tiny cocker spaniel defied all odds to make it to Aloha Tower yesterday morning amid great fanfare. He survived on an island where animals are thought of as either wild and fending for themselves, or food. "When the original owners decided not to return to get Snickers and their pet macaw, officials from Christmas Island had sent word to Fanning Island that the pets could be destroyed," said Jack Joslin, a Las Vegas resident who contacted the Hawaiian Humane Society asking for help in trying to save the pets. "I've been told they don't even have a word for 'pet' on Fanning Island, but they were holding Snickers and Gulliver after they were shipwrecked until the family could return to get them. When I read they decided not to, I called the Humane Society in Hawai'i and told them I would do whatever I could to adopt them." Joslin, who retired from the TV commercial business and moved to Las Vegas from Los Angeles recently, has been working to adopt Snickers and Gulliver, the macaw, since reading about their plight in the sailing magazine Latitude 38, which bills itself as "The West's Premier Sailing & Marine Magazine."[3] The people were rescued, but the puppy had to wander in the wild for four months. He was finally picked up by a cruise ship and taken to Hawaii. If all goes well, he will soon be flown to Las Vegas to start his new life with the man who helped save him. Action News anchor Casey Smith has more from his soon to be new owner. He was cast adrift, first by the unforgiving sea, then by the humans he trusted. Snickers, the cocker spaniel puppy, has lived half his life at sea, the other half in the very hostile animal environment of Fanning Island. "They have no word for pet in that culture to them, animals are either wild or food," explained Jack Joslin.[4] Evans Hoyt of Norwegian Cruise Lines holds Snickers, an 8-month-old cocker spaniel who was rescued after four months on Fanning Island. He will now go to his new home in Las Vegas with new owner Jack Joslin.[5] Snickers arrived at Aloha Tower this morning amid great fanfare through the help of the Humane Society, Norwegian Cruise Line officials, his new owner, the local sailing community and government officials. The Pride of Aloha, in its last trip to Fanning Island, picked up Snickers and brought him to Honolulu, where the dog will be taken to the airport this afternoon to catch a plane to Las Vegas, his new home with good samaritan Jack Joslin.[5] After several weeks the couple was able to bum a ride on an inter-island supply ship to make it home. Latitude 38, a sailing magazine that wrote about the dog's plight last month, says the supply ship wouldn't allow the dog on board, and so its owners left it behind. Snickers now is heading to a new home in land-locked Las Vegas (he's apparently had enough of Pacific islands). Norwegian says Las Vegas resident Jack Joslin heard of Snickers' plight and called the Hawaiian Humane Society, which in turn asked NCL America for help in rescuing the dog and getting him to Joslin (Joslin himself offers a wonderful recap of the saga this week at sailing site Cruisers Forum). No word yet on what Snickers ate on board the Pride of Aloha -- like other ships in the Norwegian fleet known for its "Freestyle" dining. We're sure he was given lots of options. Cruise Loggers, if any of you were on the Pride of Aloha this week, we'd love to hear a full report.[6]
HONOLULU - Snickers is only eight months old. The cocker spaniel already has spent three months adrift on a 48-foot boat and survived four months on a tiny Pacific atoll where his owners, Jerry and Darla Merrow of California, left him when they were rescued by a cargo vessel. Now Snickers is in Honolulu, rescued by cruise ship workers, the Hawaiian Humane Society, an airline, and others who have united to find him a home. "It's an amazing story of a lot of people working together to save this puppy," said Evans Hoyt, captain of NCL's Pride of Aloha. "He's a very, very lucky dog."[7] HONOLULU -- In a storyline that looks like it was lifted from "Mission: Impossible," a crew was given the task of rescuing a shipwrecked dog and a bird on an island over 1,000 miles away. Snickers, an 8-month-old cocker spaniel, was the only one of the two to return to Hawaii Wednesday, but officials said they are hoping that his friend, a macaw named Gulliver, will soon join him. Snickers was saved by the Pride of Aloha, a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, after the boat he was on wrecked at sea. The crew onboard the Pride of Aloha quickly adopted him. "The folks on the ship, they are (out there) for months at a time, and some of them have pets at home and they don't have a chance to interact with them, and so of course they all spoiled him rotten," Pride of Aloha Capt.[8] HONOLULU -- The Norwegian Cruise Line ship Pride of Aloha made a mercy mission to help rescue a puppy marooned on Fanning Island. Snickers is an 8-month-old cocker spaniel that was stranded on Fanning after his owner's boat ran aground. The boat owners returned to California, but without their dog and a pet macaw known as Gulliver.[9]
The word from Honolulu today is that the line's 2002-passenger Pride of Aloha has rescued an eight-month-old pooch that was shipwrecked on a remote Pacific island. The company says the ship returned to the Hawaiian Islands this morning with the cuddly cocker spaniel, who goes by the name Snickers, after scooping him up from Fanning Island earlier this week during a 12-day Pacific cruise. Snickers and his owners, a California couple, had been marooned on Fanning Island in December, when their 48-foot-long sailboat, the Darla Jean, washed up on shore after spending 95 days drifting across the Pacific.[6]
Hawaiian Airlines, moved by the dog's survival story, has given the go-ahead on flying the animal for free to the mainland, said Peter Forman, a Hawaii-based airlines historian who helped negotiate Snickers' transport. Forman said he expects Snickers to arrive sometime in the next three days. Snickers' ordeal began when his owners catamaran began experiencing mast problems after setting off from California, said Gina Baurile of the Hawaiian Humane Society. The boat drifted to Fanning Island where it hit a reef and the dog's owners, Jerry and Darla Merrow, swam 200 metres to shore with Snickers and their parrot, Gulliver. They left the island soon after on a cargo vessel leaving their pets in the care of islanders, Baurile said.[10] Evans Hoyt said. Passengers on board the Pride of Aloha never got to see Snickers, but they said they heard all about him in daily shipboard updates. Now, with the help of the Hawaiian Humane Society, Snickers will soon be connected to his new owner, mainlander Jack Joslin, by the week's end, HHS spokeswoman Gina Baurile said. "We help rescue and protect animals, so we are very pleased to help with this effort -- connecting Snickers with his new owner," Baurile said. The previous owner of Snickers and Gulliver apparently gave up their claim after the West Coast sailing community rallied to save the animals.[8]
Efforts to contact the Merrows on Friday were unsuccessful. Joslin said he has been unable to contact the pair, and Baurile said she believes the Hawaiian Humane Society never tried to reach them. "The Merrows got to the point where they had to move on with their lives," said Forman, who is friends with Robby and Lorraine Coleman, a couple with a sailboat off Fanning Island who originally talked to a boating journal about Snickers.[11] After being contacted by Formans wife the Hawaiian Humane Society took the lead on Snickers rescue and organised for a ship to be sent out to Fanning Island to pick up the dog, said Norwegian Cruise Line spokeswoman Krislyn Hashimoto.[10] Joslin lives in Las Vegas but is a friend of the ocean who found out about Snickers' plight. The pup was abandoned on Fanning Island when he and his owners were shipwrecked there. A cargo ship picked up the couple, but would not take snickers with them. "No, the dog was on his own and he was only four months old when they crashed on the rocks, so he is just a baby," said Joslin. That baby lived wild on the island, scared to death of everyone and everything there. He was finally picked up by a Norwegian Cruise Lines Ship and taken to Hawaii. "I had another dog, a 15 - year - old border collie that was just euthanized in March and she misses him unbelievably. She is not herself anymore. I think a puppy will do her a world of good," said Joslin.[4] Efforts to organize a rescue to get the pets returned to the U.S. initially failed until another sailor got involved and got help from Norwegian Cruise Lines. "It was the last time they were sending a cruise ship to Fanning Island so this was our last chance our one and only change to do anything," Snickers' new owner Jack Joslin said.[9] "Mr. Joslin read about how Snickers was left behind on Fanning Island when the owners were rescued after being adrift at sea for 95 days," said Gina Baurile. "He called us saying he wanted to adopt him and we tried to help with Norwegian Cruise Lines.[5]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Snickers the Sea Dog is barely more than a pup, but he's already an old salt. The 8-month-old pooch spent three months adrift in the Pacific with his owners and a parrot until their 48-foot sailboat ran aground in December on tiny Fanning Island, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. Snickers and Gulliver had to be left behind as their owners hitched a ride on a cargo vessel.[11] Snickers the Sea Dog is barely more than a pup, but he's already an old salt. The eight-month-old pooch spent three months adrift on a 15-metre boat and survived four months on tiny Fanning Island - 1609 kilometres south of Hawaii - where his owners left him after their sailing boat ran aground last December.[10]
In the first week of December, the vessel finally drifted to Fanning Island, a populated but tiny atoll about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. It hit a reef and the couple swam 200 yards to shore with Snickers and their macaw named Gulliver. The pets were left in the care of some islanders, but Baurile said the animals apparently weren't cared for very well, "because they don't have the same concept of what pets are."[7]
Gina Baurile, the society's community relations coordinator, said Thursday that the organization took the lead in coordinating the rescue of Snickers after being contacted in the first week of April by Jack Joslin of Las Vegas, a concerned pet lover who wanted to take ownership of the dog. Joslin said he learned of Snickers' saga in 'Lectronic Latitude, an online Web site of the boating journal Latitude 38.[7] Actually at the time I thought saving the bird would be easy and the dog difficult. That turned out not to be the case," said Jack Joslin of Las Vegas, who will be Snickers' new owner. Joslin agreed to adopt him sight unseen. "I had to have my 15 plus year old border collie euthanized so this story hit me just five days after that. That's probably a big part of it but I think I would do it anyway," Joslin said.[2]
Now the cocker spaniel, who is in quarantine on Oahu after being rescued April 9 by Norwegian Cruise Line workers and a group of other people, will be flown to Los Angeles to meet a man who desperately wants to adopt him: retired Las Vegas resident Jack Joslin.[10] Then I had to have my border collie euthanized. The day they called saying the ashes were back was when I read the story (about Snickers). It occurred to me I could do something." On April 9, Norwegian Cruise Line workers rescued Snickers from Fanning and dropped him off on Oahu island, Hawaii, where he will remain in quarantine until he is flown to Los Angeles.[11]
The organization worked with Norwegian Cruise Line, and a ship was sent out to Fanning Island to pick up the dog, said Norwegian Cruise Line spokeswoman Krislyn Hashimoto.[11]
A Las Vegas man pulled out all the stops to rescue Snickers, a puppy left behind on Fanning Island. The lucky dog was given the star treatment as he arrived in Honolulu.[1] Snickers had been stuck on Fanning Island since December. He survived a shipwreck there but was abandoned by his owners and was about to be destroyed. After traveling 1,000 miles from Fanning Island to Hawaii, he now has a second chance at life and a new home.[2] Snickers and his owners set sail from Monterey Bay in California in a 48 foot boat, bound for Hawaii. They ran into equipment trouble and drifted for 95 days. They ended up shipwrecked on Fanning Island, about three miles from the equator.[4] Spent 95 days adrift on a 48-foot boat. Survived four months on Fanning Island, a tiny atoll about 1,000 miles south of Hawai'i, after being abandoned by his original owners when they were rescued in December by a cargo vessel that couldn't allow the pup on board.[3]
According to a Latitude 38 Jan. 7 article, the pets' original owners are Jerry and Darla Merrow of San Francisco. Their 48-foot catamaran, the Darla Jean, developed mast problems about 1,200 miles outside of Moss Landing during a four-day storm that brought 40 knot winds and high seas. During the storm they lost their autopilot, their mainsail ripped and the engine swamped with water and wouldn't start. They had charted a course for Hawai'i, but with plenty of supplies, a wind generator, solar panels, water maker and lots of provisions, they weren't "in a hurry," Jerry Merrow told the magazine. On the 94th day of the voyage, 110 miles from Christmas Island, the Darla Jean got caught in a current, the magazine said, and the Merrows altered their course to Fanning Island through the use of a handwritten chart that they entered into their GPS.[3]
After several failed radio calls to Coast Guard and Fanning Island officials, the boat hit a reef and the couple, pets included, swam 200 yards to the island. "They haven't contacted me about the pets," Joslin said. "All I've heard is that if something happens and the pets don't make it, they don't want to know. They want to move on believing that everything turned out all right."[3]
"I was willing to spend whatever it took, but because so many people got involved willingly, it turned out not to cost me much at all," Joslin said. NCL offered to pick up Snickers, and Hawaiian Airlines volunteered to fly him for free to Los Angeles, where he will be handed to Joslin.[7] Joslin said the Humane Society arranged passage on a Hawaiian Airlines cargo flight to Los Angeles.[3]
Snickers headed to quarantine to get checked out. Joslin said he hoped to fly the dog to Los Angeles on Friday.[2]
An elaborate plan is hatching to move the macaw to Christmas Island and eventually to Los Angeles, one of two U.S. ports that will accept exotic birds. "We have an amazing network of bird lovers that came in to get involved in this," bird enthusiast Peter Foreman said. "So, by golly, if they can do it for Snickers, they can do it for Gulliver."[7]
The dog landed in Honolulu on Wednesday, cleared Customs and has been in quarantine since, awaiting transport to Los Angeles, Hashimoto said.[11]
The pup was living in luxury for the last week as the first pet on the Pride of Aloha. He was a little uneasy with all the attention but he is a much different dog now than when the cruise ship first came to his rescue, according to crew members. "He was very unsure of himself and a little bit suspicious of people and it was amazing how just in the course of the first 24 hours and day by day he turned right around," Hoyt said. The cruise may be over but the crew won't soon forget the pooch they pampered. "There were some people who were very sad to see him go. He's a little heart stealer, that one," Hoyt said. [7] Become the most famous four-legged rescuee of Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of Aloha. "It's an amazing story of a lot of people working together to save this puppy," said Evans Hoyt, captain of NCL's Pride of Aloha. "He's a very, very lucky dog."[3]
Say what you will about NCL America, the much-maligned, Hawaii-based subsidiary of Norwegian Cruise Line, but they do go the extra mile for pets.[6]
NCL officials said Snickers may have been euthanized had the cruise ship not been available to pick him up. When he first got on board, Snickers was timid of people and a little underweight. During the return trip to Honolulu, however, Snickers lived a life of luxury and bonded with crew members, who took a photo with the pup this morning before Snickers left the ship. [5] '''I was willing to spend whatever it took, but because so many people got involved willingly, it turned out not to cost me much at all,''' said Joslin. NCL offered to pick up Snickers, and Hawaiian Airlines volunteered to fly him to the Mainland for free. Paperwork problems prevented Joslin from bringing back Gulliver too, but after having to put his dog of 15 years to sleep last month, he can't wait to meet Snickers.[1] Unfortunately, Gulliver the bird could not get the necessary pre-approvals and had to be left behind. Joslin said he is not giving up. He said he hopes Snickers will become an ambassador for the return of his bird buddy. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.[9] Joslin said the bird was being taken of, but the dog was actually "left to fend for itself."[7]
Fanning is one of 33 scattered coral atolls that make up the remote nation of Kiribati. In March, the government of Kiribati, which technically owned the animals, decided to have them destroyed, Joslin said. Upon learning the news while on Fanning, a sailing couple from Hawaii tipped Latitude 38 with the story, he said. Joslin said he decided to become involved when he read the account just five days after he had to have his ailing 15-year-old border collie euthanized. "That was really tough. That was a very hard time," he said.[7] NCL Corp., which operates two cruise ships in Hawaii, is increasing passenger fees in response to recent rises in oil prices. The Miami-based cruise-ship operator said it is adding a fuel surcharge to all its ships of $9 per person per day for the first and second guests in a stateroom, and $4 per person per day for any additional guests in the same room.[12] On May 11, the Pride of Aloha will be reflagged and sent on a new route in Asia, leaving only one NCL ship in Hawaii.[12] Snickers will arrive in Honolulu on the Pride of Aloha on Wednesday. Once he is quarantined and checked out by a veterinarian, he could be on his way to meet his new owner.[9]
As complicated as Snicker's plight has been, Gulliver's travels are even more complicated. For Snickers, who would have been two weeks old when the ordeal began, his fortunes changed when the Humane Society got involved. (Society officials only have an estimate of his age.) [3] The Hawaiian Humane Society provided pet carriers, flea treatment and food, Baurile said.[11] Getting the canine cleared for travel involved the Hawaiian Humane Society, state agencies, and even the Department of Homeland Security. The cruise may be over but the crew won't soon forget the pooch they pampered. "There were some people who were very sad to see him go. He's a little heart stealer, that one," said Hoyt.[2]
As word spread, a bevy of people worked to rescue the cocker spaniel and the macaw, including a man who desperately wants to adopt them: retired Las Vegas resident Jack Joslin. [11] Snickers the cocker spaniel has logged more sea miles in last seven months than most of us will see in a lifetime.[4]
Robby Coleman, who owns a sail boat off Fanning Island then started watching out for the dog and parrot on the island, Forman said. [10] On Fanning Island, most dogs run wild. There was someone watching him, but if he hadn't been rescued[5]
There is a plan to move Gulliver to Christmas Island, near Fanning Island, and eventually to L.A., one of two U.S. ports that accept exotic birds.[11]
The couple's parrot, Gulliver, was also left behind. It is illegal to import animals there so both pets were going to be destroyed after the owners decided not to retrieve them. [2]
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