Does anyone own or know of an heroic pet?

Question

True stories appreciated.

Answer 1

There was once this burning apartment with a cat and her new litter of kittens in the building. The cat went inside the burning and colapsing building and tried to same them all, I think she saved most of them, she was severly burned herself, her nose was burned off her wiskers and fur on her face. All of the kittens she saved had minor injuries. Fire fighters went in the building and saved the rest of those kittens.

Would you call that a heroic pet? I know I would.

Answer 2

I read a story about a dog a while back. A woman was outside hanging clothes out to dry one day and her small toddler was outside with her. the child was playing with the family dog, a Husky. The woman heard the child squeal and when she looked, she saw the dog knock the child down and then lay on top of him. She started running toward them, thinking that the dog was attacking the child, but when she came upon them, she found that the child had stumbled upon a yellow jackets nest and the dog laid on top of the child to protect him from the stings. I can't remember how many times the dog was stung, it was several hundred, but the child was not stung at all.

Answer 3

My neighbour's dog start barking to wake the family up when the house beside it went on fire. It smelled the smoke comming through the attic. The ejit that owns the house is an alcho and ran out the door with his bag of cans leaving the dog locked in the sitting room and a child in bed. Lucky it wasn't his house that was on fire & nobody was hurt. No joke, this really happened!

Answer 4

Donkeys' years ago, I lived on a houseboat. On the boat next door, lived two dogs - Musgrove and Digby. Digby was a Welsh Collie, Musgrove a mongrel with eyebrows like Denys Healey and an anchor on his bum. Musgrove knew to use the zebra crossing when venturing off on his tours about town. He would sit outside Tesco until his owner had finished shopping - and never needed a lead. He liked our boat and would come indoors on cold days, to sit in front of the fan heater until his nose dried out and the tips of his whiskers started to curl. Anyway - his family included Mum, Dad and two children. Mum & Dad slept at the blunt end of the boat, the children at the sharp end - with the sitting room, kitchen and bathroom inbetween. One night the heater in the bathroom set the wood panelling on fire. Not a raging fire, just a smokey smoulder - but potentially lethal. Musgrove jumped onto the parents' bed to wake them, but because they couldn't smell the smoke they didn't realise and shut him out of their room. So he went out his doggy door, around the side of the boat and in through the open window, onto their bed. He did that twice - and only when the exasperated Dad took him to tie him up in the kitchen, did he notice the smoke and get the kids out before tragedy struck. Both the boat and the family was saved - and we all clubbed together so that Musgrove (and Digby) had steak for tea, that night.

Answer 5

Yes and this an absolutely true story. Our young child fell into the garden pond. Suddenly a dog I never seen before leapt into the water to attack our child. However my goldfish realising what was happening, swam into the dogs side. The force of the impact made the dog jump out of the water and run away. I can tell you our goldfish was a hero that day. I haven't told the newspapers, we don't want the publicity.

Answer 6

I wish I could tell you who this was, but all I can tell you is that I saw it on a show on Animal Planet.
A woman was walking her dog in the woods when her dog started acting funny. He kept sitting down and wouldn't allow her to walk any further. Finally she turned around and went back home. Once at home, she collapsed on the kitchen floor (I don't remember what was wrong wth her). Her dog went over to the counter and BROUGHT THE WOMAN THE PHONE so she could call for help!
Yep, it's a true story. I thought that was pretty cool. :)

Answer 7

My best friend, when I was younger, was battling severe depression.
It was so bad that, at times, the greatest things in the world would go unnoticed by her. Heck, if she found a $100. bill on the street - she still wouldn't feel lucky.

She didn't get along with her family very well because she was the black sheep. (well, I didn't think so) But she did have a friend that meant a great deal to her... and that was her horse bubba.

Her mom called me late one Saturday night and told me that she had been rushed to the hospital after they found her in her horse's stall with one of her wrist's slit.
Her mom evidently got up to use the restroom around 2:30 a.m. and the barn light was flashing on and off, on and off...

Turns out, it was her horse... he was flicking the light switch with his lip. The hoof Marks in the stall indicated that he had stood over her all night. Stepping aside here and there, but never leaving her side.

Answer 8

About 10 years ago, while I was walking to catch a bus, I passed a house where there was a German shepherd in the yard. The dog started walking alongside me, and when we got to a crowded area he would growl at anyone who came near me or even passed me on the sidewalk. People started yelling at me to control "my dog", but he was NOT my dog...I had never seen him before. When I got to the bus stop I sat down on a bench and the dog put his front legs up on my lap and just looked into my face. I went into a store, hoping he would go away, but when I went out 10 minutes later he was still there. I sat down again, and again he put his front legs up on my lap. When my bus came, he tried to get on with me, but of course he was shut out. He ran after the bus until he could no longer keep up.

To this day remember this dog and wonder WHY he acted that way.

Answer 9

my dog Woof. Unfortunatley he's not with us anymore but im diabetic and if I was hypo during the night and wasn't waking up Woof used to get his nose under the covers and wake me up, i'd then be able to get some food and stop myself getting any worse. Woof was a GSD and my best friend. I've now got Jersey a GSD, not had any hypo's during the night so don't know if she would react the same. Don't know how Woof knew, he just did.

Answer 10

Sept. 9 - A man who was shooting his dog's 3-month-old puppies ended up shot himself as one of them hit the trigger with her paw. He now faces criminal charges.

PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) -- Nice shootin', Rex!

A man who tried to shoot seven puppies was shot himself when one of the dogs put its paw on the revolver's trigger.

Jerry Allen Bradford, 37, was charged with felony animal cruelty, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. He was being treated at a hospital for a gunshot wound to his wrist.

Bradford said he decided to shoot the 3-month-old shepherd-mix dogs in the head because he couldn't find them a home, according to the sheriff's office.

On Monday, Bradford was holding two puppies -- one in his arms and another in his left hand -- when the dog in his hand wiggled and put its paw on the trigger of the .38-caliber revolver. The gun then discharged, the sheriff's report said.

Deputies found three of the puppies in a shallow grave outside Bradford's home, said sheriff's Sgt. Ted Roy.

The other four appeared to be in good health and were taken by Escambia County Animal Control, which planned to make them available for adoption.
__________________
You can get killed walkin' your doggie.