11 animals who saved humans
When a hungry cougar came calling, an 11 year old boy named Austin Forman had Angel on his side.
It happened on a dark Sunday evening in British Columbia, Canada, when Austin went outside to collect wood for his family's wood burning furnace. He noticed that Angel, his happy go lucky golden retriever, was acting much more cautious and guarded than usual. Within moments, a cougar tried to pounce on Austin from less than 10 feet away. Angel jumped directly into the big cat's path and bore the brunt of the attack instead.
"She was my best friend, but now she's even greater to me. She's more than a best friend now," Austin said after the attack, which almost certainly would have killed Angel if a local police constable hadn't managed to shoot the cougar.
The 18 month old dog had surgery to repair extensive injuries to her head. "I was just lucky my dog was there, because it happened so fast I wouldn't have known what hit me," Austin said. "I bought her a big, nice juicy steak."
Schnautzie was still just a kitten when she did something big really big for her owners. on a cold night in October 2007, Schnautzie ambled up onto the chest of sleeping Trudy Guy and began tapping Guy's nose with her paw. The first time it happened, Guy ignored the adorable annoyance and went back to sleep. But Schnautzie was persistent: Tap. Tap. Tap.
This time around, the pats on the nose woke Guy up, and she noticed the way Schnautzie was sniffing the air. She awakened her husband, Greg Guy, and they both heard an ominous hissing noise. A gas pipe leading into their Montana home had broken and was filling their basement with fumes.
The Guys and their trusty feline fled the house. Firefighters later told the couple that if the furnace had kicked on highly probable on such a cold night the whole house could have exploded in flames. Schnautzie's efforts earned her a Purple Paw award from the Great Falls (Mont.) Animal Foundation.
On a frigid afternoon during a cold Minnesota winter, Brett Grinde took his 15 year old German Shorthaired dog Effie for a walk. Just a regular walk along their regular route until Effie began behaving strangely.
"At the 'T' we always go left," Grinde told the Pine City Pioneer newspaper. "She started pulling to the right. Effie has never, ever done http://www.tigersofficialauthentic.com/Authentic-Justin-Verlander-Jersey that, and hasn't pulled in a long time."
Effie was so beside herself that Grinde, an investigator with the Pine County Sheriff's Office, decided to let go of her leash and let her run. She sprinted straight to a driveway about 40 yards away, where a 94 year old man was frozen to the ground. "He had serious exposure and blood underneath him," Grinde said. "I have seen plenty of deceased people and thought he was dead."
He wasn't dead, though, and because of Effie's intervention he was able to get emergency medical care. The man did die a few days later, but Grinde remains grateful that Effie ended his misery in the cold. "I think the one above heard the man suffering and pointed Effie in the right direction," he said. "It's all in God's hands one way or another."
Remember how, in all those old TV shows and movies, Lassie the collie could always be counted on to run and get help? Well, Lassie has a new understudy: Buddy the German shepherd.
On a cold, night Justin Verlander Jersey in Alaska, a fire erupted at the home of Buddy's owners. One of them, 23 year old Ben Heinrichs, got Buddy safely outside and told him, "We need to get help."
That's just what Buddy did. He dashed off and eventually encountered the vehicle of a state trooper who had gotten lost on rural roads while trying to respond to the blaze. Buddy got his attention and began running at top speed down snowy streets, directing the trooper right to the fire. During the rush to the inferno, the dog kept looking back over his shoulder to make sure the trooper was keeping up.
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Roxanne was carefully trained as a guide dog for the blind but she received no training at all to sense an impending medical crisis. The faithful Labrador retriever figured that part out all on her own.
Her handler, Joe Mauk of Brookville, Pa., had lost his vision after enduring Type I diabetes for years. In early 2010, he got all set to take Roxanne out for her evening walk, but she resisted.
Mauk finally managed to coax her outside and during the walk, he collapsed. "My blood sugar crashed," he said. "It was pretty much a crawl back to my house I was fighting for consciousness." Roxanne madly licked his hands and dragged him back home by her leash. "I remember getting my front door open, but from there it went blank. When I came to, a syringe of glucagon still in my leg, I was saturated from sweat and from Roxanne licking my face and arms. I'd never felt her react to anything that way before."
Since the incident, Roxanne has been exceptionally protective and attentive with Mauk. "I've never felt safer in my life," he said. "She has one eye open all the time."
Some cats, like Baby the 13 year old tabby, tend to be timid all their lives. But on a night in January when multiple lives were at stake, Baby's personality changed.
Josh Ornberg and Letitia Kovalovsky who was seven months pregnant with twins had fallen asleep on the couch in their suburban Chicago home. The couple's house was stocked with baby gear and recently assembled cribs.
The fire destroyed nearly all of the couple's possessions and made the home uninhabitable for a time but everyone survived. Wonder Lake Fire Protection Assistant Chief Mike Weber called Baby a hero. "We don't know what the outcome would have been if not for the cat," Weber said.
Chihuahuas are known for being tiny, adorable and, in some cases, a little yappy. In October 2008, one 13 pound Chihuahua named Chi Chi yipped and yapped so hysterically that he couldn't be ignored.
His owners, Rick and Mary Lane, had taken Chi Chi with them to the beach on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The diminutive doggie was resting in his own beach chair (and restrained with a leash) when he suddenly went berserk. "He leapt out of his beach chair, still attached, dragging the beach chair, and he started sending out an alarm," Mary Lane said. "He was making a sound we never heard before. Rick said, 'Hey, what's the matter with the dog?'"