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Connecticut hero dog credited with helping save baby girl’s life
Mag Grand ^ | December 17, 2021 | James L

Posted on 12/17/2021 7:13:14 AM PST by allen592

Glastonbury, Connecticut — An 8-year-old Boston terrier named Henry has been praised by its owners for saving the life of their 9-month-old baby.

Henry’s Owners, Kelly and Jeff Dowling said their pup would not rest on Monday night when he multiple times barged into their daughter’s nursery and tried to wake the baby.

The parents told ABC 6 that their dog usually puts himself to bed and kind of keeps to himself. However, Henry refused to go to bed that night, and according to his owners, the dog was headbutting the door open and going into the baby’s room and standing there.


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What a good boy Henry is!
1 posted on 12/17/2021 7:13:14 AM PST by allen592
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“We don’t deserve dogs!” She’s absolutely right.


2 posted on 12/17/2021 7:17:55 AM PST by punknpuss
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To: allen592

Great story!


3 posted on 12/17/2021 7:18:35 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: allen592

Great story....just right for this time of year...


4 posted on 12/17/2021 7:18:38 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: allen592

Dog is man’s best friend

Muslims hate dogs

Add that up.

(h/t to unknown freeper)


5 posted on 12/17/2021 7:29:41 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: allen592

Good dog! Thanks for posting this.


6 posted on 12/17/2021 7:31:09 AM PST by CatHerd (And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love - William Blake)
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To: allen592

Henry is a hero!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 12/17/2021 7:35:24 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: allen592

My yellow lab white German Shepard mix saved my youngest son’s life by barking when the little guy went out the front door and was headed for the street back in 95. Maybe nothing would have happened but....


8 posted on 12/17/2021 7:41:31 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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By the way his name was Yeller. The dog. Not my son.


9 posted on 12/17/2021 7:42:36 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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By the way his name was Yeller. The dog. Not my son.

Was he an old dog?

10 posted on 12/17/2021 7:43:32 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Dog is man’s best friend
Muslims hate dogs
Add that up.”

Dogs are faithful to a fault when it comes to “Their People”. Muslims are never faithful, not even to other muslims.
They hate dogs because fido makes a muzz look like the lieing sack of crap he is.


11 posted on 12/17/2021 7:46:13 AM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesn’t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
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I wish I was the person my dog thinks I am.


12 posted on 12/17/2021 7:48:03 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Do we value what the Founding Fathers gave us enough to fight for it?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

That is DesertRhino’s tagline.


13 posted on 12/17/2021 7:53:17 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: punknpuss

No we don’t deserve them. I heard this morning on the radio about a stray dog that saved a family’s lives when the house caught on fire.

A stray dog that we adopted when I was a kid saved my grandmother’s life. She slipped on an icy sidewalk behind the house and knocked herself out. He crawled on top of her and kept her warm until she woke up.

People underestimate the intelligence, feelings, and natural instinct to protect people that dogs possess.


14 posted on 12/17/2021 8:09:53 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative (My goal in life is to be the person my dog's think I am)
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To: gundog; DesertRhino

Thank you, knew I’d seen it somewhere, could not remember where.


15 posted on 12/17/2021 8:12:39 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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No problem.


16 posted on 12/17/2021 8:29:48 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Might have been me, but I think I ended it with ‘do the math’.

We’re in mourning at the nully nest as our foundling dog is in doggie jail for no crime. He needs to stay there for a few more days in the faint hope that his “real” owner, who had apparently abandoned him shows up.

Then to the Humane Society where we are first in line to adopt him.

Which we will! He’s been very good for us, and vice-versa!


17 posted on 12/17/2021 8:39:01 AM PST by null and void (Newspapers, The Prints of Lies)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I wish I was the person my dog thinks I am.

None of us will ever measure up to that standard. The best we can do is to strive to be as close to it as humanly possible.

18 posted on 12/17/2021 8:42:23 AM PST by null and void (Newspapers, The Prints of Lies)
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To: punknpuss

Henry is much smarter than his humans.


19 posted on 12/17/2021 9:02:22 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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Wow, Henry is a hero!

We got McLovin in July and he turned into my personal fitness chihuahua as he loves to run.

I look forward to getting out of bed to hang out with my fuzzy buddy and am down 26 lbs the fun way. I despise jogging but a stiff paced walk with a 400 yard sprint at the end is hilarious, 4 times a day.

Such a cool dude.

20 posted on 12/17/2021 9:10:18 AM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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