The inscrutable po on 18/10/2006 at 06:33
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ELKHART LAKE, Wisconsin (AP) -- After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying unsuccessfully to rescue the cat.
Jamie Hanson said her 13-year-old dog Jesse brought her artificial leg and a phone she used to call 911.
"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 arm burns in the fire Sunday night at her home in Rhine, south of Elkhart Lake. Both pets died.
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."
This is the greatest hero dog ever!
Sluggs on 18/10/2006 at 06:36
:(
ercles on 18/10/2006 at 07:57
More importantly than how awesome the dog is, how fucking evil is that bloody cat? Tried to kill it's owner and ended up getting the super-mutt killed in the process.
Mortal Monkey on 18/10/2006 at 08:32
Moral of the story: Use real plants.
hopper on 18/10/2006 at 09:54
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lighted the artificial plants on fire
Is "lighted" even a word?
Moi Dix Mois on 18/10/2006 at 10:39
Is Gillie on holiday or something?
Poor dog :(
Rogue Keeper on 18/10/2006 at 10:44
Quote Posted by The inscrutable po
This is the greatest hero dog ever!
This book should be full of hero dogs!
(
http://www.doghero.com/)
Malygris on 18/10/2006 at 16:34
The dog should've gone after the cat first so they could go looking for an owner who wasn't such a god-damned retard.
The inscrutable po on 18/10/2006 at 17:11
Here's a thought. If the dog can recognize an emergency situation and get the lady her artificial limb and then get her the phone and then go looking for the cat, why not just train him to put out little fires and save a lot of extra steps? All they need is to make little dog activated fire extinguishers or just use the integrated extinguisher.
"Go downstairs and pull the dryer fuse, Fido!
Wait! Pull the emergency brake, Rex!"
