News Clinically Depressed Poodle Mauls Former French President Chirac - Page 2

R&GHomer · 01-22-2009, 01:38 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481426,00.html

What kind of wussy gets mauled by a poodle. Laughing so hard I'm about to pee myself.

Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, in a dramatic incident that rattled the ex-president's wife.

The couple's white Maltese poodle, called Sumo, has a history of frenzied fits and became increasingly prone to making "vicious, unprovoked attacks" despite receiving treatment with anti-depressants, Chirac's wife Bernadette said.

"If you only knew! I had a dramatic day yesterday," she told VSD magazine. "Sumo bit my husband!"

Mrs. Chirac, 74, did not reveal where the former president was bitten, but said, "the dog went for him for no apparent reason."

"We were aware the animal was unpredictable and is being treated with pills for depression. My husband was bitten quite badly but he is certain to make a full recovery in weeks."

Chirac was taken to a hospital in Paris where he was treated as an outpatient and later sent home.

The 76-year-old was president of France for 12 years until 2007.

**DeezNutz** · 01-22-2009, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Radar Chief

A “maltese poodle” you could, but a regular poodle is about the size of the average yellow lab. Not a big dog, but not small either.

Standards are usually around 50-60 lbs, but they offer legit protection for their owners.

Chief Faithful · 01-22-2009, 03:51 PM

Can somebody please send President Chirac some antifreeze so he can resolve the issue with the depressed Poodle?

Demonpenz · 01-22-2009, 03:54 PM

does anyone remember how they had a heatwave in france like 80-90 degrees and like a thousand people died?

Demonpenz · 01-22-2009, 03:55 PM

France
In France, 14,802 people—mostly elderly—died from heat, according to the country's largest funeral service.[2] France does not commonly have very hot summers (seven days with temperatures of more than 40 °C (104 °F) were recorded in Auxerre, Yonne between July and August 2003), particularly in the northern areas[3]. As a consequence, most people do not know how to react to very high temperatures (for instance, with respect to rehydration), and most homes and retirement homes are not equipped with air conditioning. Furthermore, while there are contingency plans for a variety of catastrophes and natural events, high heat had never been considered a major hazard and so such plans for heat waves did not exist at the time.

The heat wave occurred in August, a month in which many people, including government ministers and physicians, are on holiday. Many bodies were not claimed for many weeks because relatives were on holiday. A refrigerated warehouse outside Paris was used by undertakers as they did not have enough space in their own facilities. On 3 September 2003, fifty-seven bodies still left unclaimed in the Paris area were buried.

That shortcomings of the nation's health system could allow such a death toll is a matter of controversy in France. The administration of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin laid the blame on families who had left their elderly behind without caring for them, the 35-hour workweek, which affected the amount of time doctors could work and family practitioners vacationing in August. Many companies traditionally closed in August, so people had no choice about when to vacation. Family doctors were still in the habit of vacationing at the same time.

The opposition, as well as many of the editorials of the local press, have blamed the administration. Many blamed Health Minister Jean-François Mattei for failing to return from his vacation when the heat wave became serious, and his aides for blocking emergency measures in public hospitals (such as the recalling of physicians). A particularly vocal critic was Dr. Patrick Pelloux, head of the union of emergency physicians, who blamed the Raffarin administration for ignoring warnings from health and emergency professionals and trying to minimize the crisis. Mattei lost his ministerial post in a cabinet reshuffle on 31 March 2004.

Demonpenz · 01-22-2009, 03:55 PM

that hard 35 hour workweek whew

mikey23545 · 01-22-2009, 03:58 PM

Full grown Maltese poodles average 6-9 lbs, about the same size as a purebred Maltese.

kstater · 01-22-2009, 04:00 PM

How would one diagnose a dog as being depressed? It's not as if you can ask it how it's feeling.

**DeezNutz** · 01-22-2009, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikey23545

Full grown Maltese poodles average 6-9 lbs, about the same size as a purebred Maltese.

That's answered a lot of questions, actually.

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