Dog(pit bull) Credited With Saving Teen From Fire

http://www.comcast.net/ ^ | 9 29 06 | Associated Press

[freepatriot32]

FORT MEYERS, Fla. - A pit bull who was recently adopted by a family after wondering onto a construction site may have saved a teen girl from a house fire on Friday.

Jerrica Seals, 17, was already safely out of the house by the time firefighters arrived, the News-Press of Fort Meyers reported.

"She called me screaming," said Leticia Vega, 36, the sister of Seals' boyfriend Javier Garcia, 23, who owns the home. "She said the dog woke her up barking, jumped on the bed and bit her on the leg."

Seals was taken to the hospital for a checkup, but Garcia said she was going to be fine.

Deputy fire Chief Steve Clyatt said blaze appears to have been caused by a bad extension cord on a window air conditioner.

Vega said her oldest brother, Gabriel Garcia, found the dog while he was working.

"He didn't pay no mind to it," Vega said. "He just kept working and the dog just stayed there so he brought it home. He doesn't usually bark. He's real friendly."

[kanawa]

We go around in circles,
seeing the same old emotionally driven posts
by our resident cadre of hysterics.
I'm tired of trying to reason with them
and suggest our best response
is to have some fun and post pics of our dogs...

[Polybius]

After spending several days visiting my son and his pit bulls, we did get a bit more relaxed around them.

Unfortunately, the following week, your son's father-in-law tried the same thing with different results. ;-)

[Wristpin]

What's got four legs and an arm?



















A Pit Bull!!

[solosmoke]

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I'm with you on that one. Now if I can just figure out how to make it show up the right way...

[GMMAC]

[GMMAC]

Here's my Viking Kitty "Salty" (Saltire) who has met several of these supposed 'devil dogs' and has had no problem with any of them once he established who was in charge.

BTW, I don't even own a dog and haven't since I was a kid:

I simply can't abide moronic dog banners and/or haters on FR who can't back up their positions with facts or logic - much less defend same on any philosophical conservative basis - and accordingly are compelled to resort to emotionally-driven liberal-like rants & hypocritically citing 'stories' from the msm - a source they'd likely immediately question on virtually any other topic.

[dervish]

What a honey. She seems to have made a good recovery. Does she swim or wade? Mine loves to fetch in the water. She's like a little engine. But unlike labs she will never jump in.

[kanawa]

He's a boy, just missing the little dangly bits.
He has made a remarkable recovery.
Just a few areas where the hair won't grow, his "bare" spots. ;~)
He loves to swim and is seemingly tireless.
He will take a running jump off the end of a dock in pursuit of a stick.
He doesn't need a thrown stick to motivate him tho',
he goes into the water for the sheer enjoyment of swimming...

While he's swimming and I call out for him to do a "Big Splash"
he'll raise his paws out of the water and bring them down hard repeatedly
churning up the water and having fun. He really makes me laugh at times.

He's is also an avid albeit unsuccessful beaver hunter.
He's the little white dot way out on the left.
Old beaver lets him get close and then gives a big whack of his tail and dives.
Poor Sammy just keeps chugging forward looking to his left and right for the beaver.
While beaver, in the foreground here, surfaces behind him
no doubt having a good laugh at the silly dog...

I had the first session of my firearms safety course this evening.
The instructor had his two yellow labs with him.
He told how the one is a good bird dog
While the other just doesn't seem to get it at all.
I had been considering that Sam might have some potential as a bird hunting dog.
I know he loves to swim and retrieve,
and on one occassion demonstrated a very gentle mouth on a bird.
I got some info from the instructor about a trainer who can try him out and test his potential.

[solosmoke]

Thank you. You are too kind.

[GMMAC]

Anything for an ally in attempting to somehow educate morons who can't back up what say with facts or logic.

BTW, ping me once you've successfully posted an image.

[kanawa]

Here's a story about pack behavior with unfortunate consequences.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20523256-1702,00.html

[zipper]

"This dog was not identified as a problem dog"

[solosmoke]

Yes, interesting. Greyhounds are pretty prey driven, and IG's are tiny! That poor dog didn't have a chance with a pack and all that entails.

[Richard-SIA]

Wound up adopting "Bull-Dozer" for myself today.

He's back on a training program, pretty smart dog, learned some new lessons after only three examples.