Posted on 07/28/2012 12:05:32 PM PDT by grundle
A pit bull from Lawrenceville, Ga., is being celebrated as a hero after he saved his master's wife--not once, but twice.
John Benton was headed out to work one day in July 2011 when the 6-year-old dog, Titan, started behaving strangely.
"He was barking and growling and then ran down the steps and got between me and the door," Benton told Fox5 in Atlanta. Benton turned around and went upstairs. There he found his wife, Gloria, had a brain aneurysm, and had fallen and suffered what turned out to be a skull fracture.
"The doctors said that if it had not been for this dog, if he had let me leave that house, she would have either bled to death or the aneurysm would have killed her," Benton told the TV station.
And just eight weeks ago, Titan again came to the rescue of Gloria Benton, the station reported. Early one morning, Titan woke John Benton, who discovered his wife had fallen and broken her hip.
For his heroics, the Humane Society of the United States honored Titan as its second runner up for the fifth annual Dogs of Valor Awards.
Gloria Benton, who hadn't been so keen on having a pit bull in her house, has grown quite fond of Titan.
"He is so special," she told the TV station. "And you just can't give him enough love. He loves to be loved on."
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It so happens I had a Pit/mix that favored yours quite a bit. This is a different dog. Exuberant, headstrong, and tended to always herd me who could have been part Heeler. You can probably recognize that.
I paint a lot myself and this is one of my first efforts done during his last year from a photo with my ex.
I sure do miss the...dog... :)
;D
Tonight he’s singing “Swing Lo, Sweet Cheerio”.
[snakes got no ears...he’s messed up the lyrics a bit]
Remember the photo of the black dog with the rose in his mouth that you sent me? I tried to incorporate the head of the black lab onto that dogs body but I wasn’t happy with it. I may try it again, not so big next time but for now I just painted the people’s cat. It turned out great!
A Dobe body and a Lab body are worlds apart.
You got the other Lab reference photos I sent, didn’t you?
I’ve had art projects that were technically good but something just didn’t ‘look right’ and were, to me, “not successful” even though the clients loved them.
Sometimes, stuff just goes wonky.
For me, mood has a lot to do with it.
If the creative juices aren’t flowing, *nothing* goes right.
[plus, I had to deal with paintng on Harley parts]..;D
Imagine having less than a square foot of available space and somebody brings you a photo of the Sistine Chapel and says “I want this on my tank”.
No wonder I’m jumpy.
;]
Absolutely! I agree! Art and painting dogs in particular is my hobby not my job if it was I’d be as jumpy as you. If I don’t like a piece that I have done, it gets painted over and the person who wants it will just have to wait.
The black lab that I was trying to do is one of those dogs who doesn’t want his picture taken. Dogs that turn away from the camera the instant the shutter snaps. My friend was taking pictures with her phone when the dog’s owner wasn’t looking. Not a usable picture among the lot.
Pictures of the sleeping cat , on the other hand, were great!
To some dogs, the lens of a camera looks enough like an eye that they instinctively avoid a direct gaze.
Really hard to get pics of those guys.
I got out of painting bikes because of the stress.
The average person has no clue how hard it is to paint something that’s less than a foot long and get every tiny detail perfect when the original art they brought you was painted on a 3’ x 5’ canvas, at *least*....~and~ they want it done in a couple of days.
Art on every piece of the bike’s metal used to get me $1500 but even then, it wasn’t worth the aggravation, especially when they’d bring me really stupid, tacky reference stuff or want 3 pieces of art, none of which related to the others *at all* and produced in incohesive, without-flow ‘flea market art’ look.
In the last few years, I’d donate stuff for dog rescue auctions and breed shows.
They’re never snarky and always grateful.
LOL
When I first started painting I seemed to have an affinity for portraits. I took classes and workshops and I was pretty good. I discovered pretty quickly that people didn’t think they looked like I portrayed them to look. Even when other people said the likeness was dead on. It wasn’t fun trying to make ugly people look beautiful or wimpy people look powerful, so I quit.
I painted landscapes for a few years but that wasn’t fun. When I started painting dogs I found my muse! I paint cats, donkeys, cows, calves and bulls but my favorite subject remains dogs!
That is fabulous! I love it!
*shrug*
Never tell a truth people don’t want to hear, I reckon.
Critters aren’t so touchy.
[try doing pastel portraits of babies for their parents...oof! there’s a delicate tightwire act]
;D
She was vicariously immortalized...aren’t I vain and evil?
;D
I am known as the most famous dead dog painter in the 200 block of (my street). Everyone loves the painting of their dead dog. :D
Vain? Maybe but not evil!
But...but...but...we all know the bully breeds are EVIL and can NEVER be trusted.
Just like dobermans.
You KNOW they’re always up to something.
;-)
LOL!
My friend in VA is reknown for painting former dogs.
[I had a rep for painting former Masons...go figger]
Right now Mr Evil is “up to” giving me heat stroke.
He’s trying to outdo the Ibizan that I’m unwillingly wearing as a fur stole by trying to get closer to me than she is...apparently by osmosis.
Arrgh!
Hot panting dogs!
Offa me!
I’m being killed by love!
LOL
Alice must be behind it. While the dogs pin you down, he escapes from his maximum security cage.
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