VideoThe secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure, LGBT troops take love for Eurovision to front line, Why an Indian comedian is challenging fake news rules. "Whatever it is you want to do, just get on and do it.". "And they started telling me their problems too. Tewitt Tarn is an idyllic pond high in the hills above Keswick in Cumbria. He spent the following two years barely able to move, declining into a deep and seemingly irreversible depression. "I never used to want to talk about depression, but now I'm perfectly happy to because I have found that just talking about such things lifts them off your shoulders.". A therapy dog who was given the animal equivalent of an OBE has been immortalised in bronze. Max gave me back my self esteem, brought me a brighter future, introduced me to a new thought process. Max the Miracle Dog owner finds lost pet - BBC News The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. She added: "Max the Miracle Dog was a true ambassador for the positive impact that animals have on our mental health and wellbeing and it was an absolute honour for us as a charity to have recognised his outstanding service to society with the PDSA Order of Merit in February.". Hes been tramping its trails for more than 20 years and, alongside his day job as manager of the YHA hostel in Elterwater, hes also team leader for the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team, one of ten volunteer teams providing emergency assistance in the park. Max has been immortalised in his hometown with a bronze statue and last year became the first pet to be given the PDSA's Order of Merit, known as the animal OBE. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Canine Ambassadors to Keswick the Lake District. 2023 BBC. Kerry suddenly had a purpose to go out - to see Max. Sadly Max died of old age last year and a small statue was created in his honour at the Lake District. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Click here to upload yours. josh brener commercial. Outside, cyclists and walkers relax in the sunshine on wooden benches, nursing amber-hued pints of beer while gazing across the fields and fells surrounding them. Follow our page, join our charity walks. Nuthatches and chiffchaffs chatter among the treetops and, in spring, cuckoos and woodpeckers can be heard in the ancient woodlands. 50K views, 2.5K likes, 1.9K loves, 893 comments, 107 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Max Out in the Lake District: Max Out in the Lake District was live. "And they started telling me their problems too. The 13 rooms are resolutely old fashioned, with well-worn furniture and floral wallpapers. Carved out by glaciers during the last Ice Age, its arguably the quintessential Lakeland valley a broad emerald bowl studded with oaks and whitewashed houses, hemmed in by bracken-covered slopes and windswept hills. He's very caring and loves swimming! Read about our approach to external linking. "Look at them," he says, as they circle us, sniffing their way across fields and through large tufts of long grass that obscure all but the tips of the dogs' tails from our view. Max (12 August 2007 6 April 2022) was[1] an English Springer Spaniel pet dog who in February 2021 became the first ever pet to receive the PDSA Order of Merit, an award which is considered the animal equivalent on the OBE and is normally reserved for dogs such as Police dogs or Service dogs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge often walked the wooded paths while living at Greta Hall in Keswick, and the surrounding scenery has inspired such artists as John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and JMW Turner. And then, with a splash that sends a snipe and three gulls soaring out from the rushes, Max, Paddy and Harry arrive. Harry came along to the party in January 2019.