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Lassie Reportedly Helps Rescue Farmer, 90
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| Mon Jan 23, 2006
Posted on 01/24/2006 1:46:58 PM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: doggieping; lassie; rescue; whatsthatlassie; yousayhefelldownthew
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:46:59 PM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
To: presidio9
Lassie Reportedly Helps Rescue Farmer, 90 "What's that, Lassie? Timmy's fallen, and he can't get up?"
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:49:06 PM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:49:12 PM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: presidio9
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
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posted on
01/24/2006 1:59:25 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Hey Fat Ted: Alito is the judge, Mojito is what you're drinking. Try to remember the difference.)
To: presidio9
To: KarlInOhio; HairOfTheDog
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posted on
01/24/2006 2:10:23 PM PST
by
apackof2
(You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
To: KarlInOhio
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!
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posted on
01/24/2006 2:11:54 PM PST
by
bonfire
To: presidio9
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.)
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posted on
01/24/2006 2:24:17 PM PST
by
RAY
To: presidio9; Flyer; technochick99; sinkspur; 88keys; DugwayDuke; sissyjane; Severa; RMDupree; ...
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posted on
01/24/2006 7:18:59 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog; presidio9
Good girl, Lassie!
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posted on
01/24/2006 7:24:36 PM PST
by
kstewskis
("There you go again..." R.R.)
To: HairOfTheDog
Good dog!
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posted on
01/24/2006 7:54:24 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: presidio9
Hellova man being on a horse at 90 but he is a good judge of canine compantions.
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posted on
01/24/2006 9:07:07 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(Democrats value the privacy of terrorists higher than the lives of Americans.)
To: HairOfTheDog
Please ping me for the Saddle Club list.
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posted on
01/24/2006 9:10:44 PM PST
by
MoochPooch
(A righteous person worries about his or her behavior, an extremist about everyone else's.)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
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posted on
01/24/2006 10:14:40 PM PST
by
CindyDawg
(I)
To: presidio9
The dog snuggled him to keep him warm? Isn't it mid summer there, I thought they were having a heat wave?
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posted on
01/25/2006 12:52:24 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: MoochPooch
Certainly! Please also stop by our saddle club thread.... Click the picture at the ping logo to find it :~D
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posted on
01/25/2006 5:32:31 AM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: presidio9
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!
To: TASMANIANRED
But not a very good judge of equine. ;-)
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posted on
01/25/2006 10:25:27 AM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
01/25/2006 10:41:25 AM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
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