this dog is a hero...

[allinthehands]

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=43539

how many humans do you know that would do that?

[PrincessCare]

ouch, i hate reading about stuff like that.

the other day i was reading a story about a dog that died pulling his wheelchair-bound owner out of a burning building. well, actually, he got the owner out okay but then he died when he went back for the family cat that was shrieking upstairs. this is not a joke, i really read it on the news the other day. ill post a link when i find the story.

[PrincessCare]

Found it. The associated press reports:


Mon Oct 16, 8:10 PM ET

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying to help the cat still in the house. Jamie Hanson said the 13-year-old dog named Jesse brought the phone so she could call 911 and also brought her artificial leg.

"She got me outside and then she heard the cat upstairs and she went up there to get the cat and she wouldn't come back to me," Hanson, 49, said at a news conference Monday at Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center where she was being treated for her injuries.

She received third-degree burns to an arm in the fire Sunday night at her home in the town of Rhine south of Elkhart Lake, the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department said, adding that both pets died in the fire.

Hanson, who lost a leg in a car accident three years ago, said she was on the couch watching television when the cat ran over the back of the couch.

"And he jumped onto a table that had a candle on it and tipped it over and lighted the artificial plants on fire," she said.

Hanson said she fell off the couch and was unable to get her artificial leg from the table, "so my dog got my leg for me and went and got the phone and brought the phone to me so I could call 911."

She said she tried to put the prosthetic leg on, but it was too hot, and the dog, a golden retriever-German shepherd mix, came to her aid again before going back inside for the cat.

When rescuers arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames, the sheriff's department said. Hanson was in the doorway and was assisted by a deputy.

She was no longer being treated at the hospital when The Associated Press called Monday evening for further comment.

[CaptainCrunch]

as sad as stories like that are...i love hearing them. i was watching animal planet once and they had a show about "hero dogs" and one was a black lab that was given to a man with a heart defect and it could sense when he was having an attack and would start barking and licking the guy's hand so he would know when it was coming and could call 911. the best part was that one day the man was at work (with his dog of course) and the dog all of a sudden runs out of the room and down the hall and starts barking and licking the hand of the man's coworker. they were confused at first but sure enough, the coworker had a heart attack minutes later. so crazy! dogs are amazing creatures.

[kkibak]

as sad as stories like that are...i love hearing them. i was watching animal plantet once and they had a show about "hero dogs" and one was a black lab that was given to a man with a heart defect and it could sense when he was having an attack and would start barking and licking the guy's hand so he would know when it was coming and could call 911. the best part was that one day the man was at work (with his dog of course) and the dogs all of a sudden runs out of the room and odwn the hall and starts barking and licking the hand of the man's coworker. they were confused at first but sure enough, the coworker had a heart attack minutes later. so crazy! dogs are amazing creatures.

wow, that is really, really amazing.

[PitFreak]

those stories really make you think about a dog's mind. they always put us first. it makes me wonder if they constantly think about how what they do will affect their owners. they're such loyal animals. do you think they worry about us like our parents do? i know that's kind of a stupid question but i think it's possible.

[PrincessCare]

That's really interesting. I also remember hearing something about dogs being able to predict earthquakes, etc. How does this stuff work scientifically? (Why can't WE do it?!) How can a dog sense an eminent heart attack?