[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?"

[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?

[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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[TASMANIANRED]

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

[Ditter]

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

[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!