Lassie Reportedly Helps Rescue Farmer, 90

AP ^ | Mon Jan 23, 2006

[presidio9]

In a case of life imitating fiction, a 13-month-old cattle dog named "Lassie" helped to rescue its injured master after he fell from a horse in eastern Australia, a media report said Tuesday.

George Crowther, a 90-year-old farmer from Queensland state, broke his pelvis when he was pitched from a bucking horse and his foot became caught in the reins, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

Crowther's dog, Lassie, came to the rescue, snuggling in next to Crowther to keep him warm.

When darkness fell, Crowther's wife came searching in the woods with a flashlight, but couldn't hear his feeble cries.

"The dog ran to her and she said 'Where's George?" Crowther told the ABC. "And she (Lassie) toddled off, leading my wife to where I was. And the rest, of course, is history."

Crowther was recovering in hospital Tuesday after having 37 screws inserted into his pelvis and hip.

[futurekentuckylawyer]

Did he fall down a well?

[atomicpossum]

Lassie Reportedly Helps Rescue Farmer, 90

"What's that, Lassie? Timmy's fallen, and he can't get up?"

[presidio9]

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[KarlInOhio]

Lassie looked brilliant, in part because the farm family she lived with was made up of idiots. Remember? One of them was always getting pinned under the tractor, and Lassie was always rushing back to the farmhouse to alert the other ones. She'd whimper and tug at their sleeves, and they'd always waste precious minutes saying things: Do you think something's wrong? Do you think she wants us to follow her? What is it, girl? , etc., as if this had never happened before, instead of every week. What with all the time these people spent pinned under the tractor, I don't see how they managed to grow any crops whatsoever. They probably got by on federal crop supports, which Lassie filed the applications for.

-- Dave Barry

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

FArming at age 90?

[apackof2]

LOL!

BTW Good dog!

[bonfire]

According to MY parents, Timmy was always disobeying and Lassie was always saving the day. I can count on my left hand the times I was allowed to watch!

[RAY]

Riding a horse at 90! What a guy! Not sure my bones would take it and I'm about 20 years younger.

(Remember to get a smart dog if I ever start riding again.)

[HairOfTheDog]

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[kstewskis]

Good girl, Lassie!

[AnAmericanMother]

Good dog!

[TASMANIANRED]

Hellova man being on a horse at 90 but he is a good judge of canine compantions.

[MoochPooch]

Please ping me for the Saddle Club list.

[CindyDawg]

Riding at 90 too:')

[Ditter]

The dog snuggled him to keep him warm? Isn't it mid summer there, I thought they were having a heat wave?

[HairOfTheDog]

Certainly! Please also stop by our saddle club thread.... Click the picture at the ping logo to find it :~D

[afraidfortherepublic]

If Lassie was an Australian Cattle Dog (Blue Heeler) they are really samart, and this isn't the first time one has saved its owner. A couple of years ago, one saved an elderly Florida woman from an alligator and got all chewed up in the process.

I saw another one on TV (Alan Thicke's program about hero dogs) who was sent to live with a woman's daughter when his owner went into a "rest home". The dog scaled a 7 foot iron fence and traveled about 23 miles to find the rest home where the owner had been taken and then found her window and sat under it and barked until someone came and let the dog in. Everybody at the rest home loved him and he got to live there!

[the OlLine Rebel]

But not a very good judge of equine. ;-)

[TASMANIANRED]

Very true.