Posted on 10/17/2006 6:00:01 AM PDT by presidio9
After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying to help the cat still in the house. Jamie Hanson said the 13-year-old dog named Jesse brought the phone so she could call 911 and also brought her artificial leg.
"She got me outside and then she heard the cat upstairs and she went up there to get the cat and she wouldn't come back to me," Hanson, 49, said at a news conference Monday at Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center where she was being treated for her injuries.
She received third-degree burns to an arm in the fire Sunday night at her home in the town of Rhine south of Elkhart Lake, the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department said, adding that both pets died in the fire.
Hanson, who lost a leg in a car accident three years ago, said she was on the couch watching television when the cat ran over the back of the couch.
"And he jumped onto a table that had a candle on it and tipped it over and lighted the artificial plants on fire," she said.
Hanson said she fell off the couch and was unable to get her artificial leg from the table, "so my dog got my leg for me and went and got the phone and brought the phone to me so I could call 911."
She said she tried to put the prosthetic leg on, but it was too hot, and the dog, a golden retriever-German shepherd mix, came to her aid again before going back inside for the cat.
When rescuers arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames, the sheriff's department said. Hanson was in the doorway and was assisted by a deputy.
She was no longer being treated at the hospital when The Associated Press called Monday evening for further comment.
Awww. My dog tried saving a kitten he thought was abandoned in our back yard. Our cat just hissed at it and ran for it.
I much prefer to use a highlighter although my dog prefers page tape.......
I like dogs too (had both)....I just like cats better and know they superior pets.
Wow...you're a touchy little thing. By the way...the man said his dog likes to eat cats--with a smiley face. If that's not evil, I don't know what is. Also, the 'needy' issue sure was proven when you solicited other posters. A true dog person.
LOL! I could tell right off the bat she is a tad confused, obsessive and lacking any sense of humor.
It was a winking smiley face... He was joking! Dear Lord "They walk among us". LOL!
"A true dog person."
Thanks for the highest compliment anyone could ever pay me.
And while we're talking "touchy", what [other than an obsessive psychosis] brings you to such an old thread, if not to spew your usual, obligatory "hate dogs/kill dogs" rant?
"If that's not evil, I don't know what is."
Um, let's see now...a person calling for the immediate shooting of any dog who chases/harrasses/otherwise disturbs any cat, maybe?
How long have you been "following" me on FR now?
1 year?
2?
"Also, the 'needy' issue sure was proven when you solicited other posters."
Your ping list of "usual suspects" will be along to attack me, shortly, I'd bet.
[get a permit to keep that illegal deer, yet?]
Welcome to my killfile.
You'd best get used to her because you've just made a "friend" for life....LOL!
[believe me...been there, been hounded by that]
"He was joking!"
But the problem is that she's not.
It's downright creepy.
Oh, no...*now* you've gone and done it.
[that is *not* the first time somebody posted that in reference to her]....;D
Fawn, I just looked at Salamanders profile and there is nothing Creepy about it..
However, Strawberry Shortcake Cat Loving Loons DO creep me out. ;)
Ok....so you like elvira wannabees more than shortcake. To each his own.
"there is nothing Creepy about it.."
I dunno, Divine...ya better go check it out again....>:->
I bet the Cali fire arsonist IS A CAT!
LOL!
The new critter craze....Pyromaniacats!
[so, is my page creepier now?]....;D
Drat-blast it.
There only so much you can do with a FR "Me" profile page.
[maybe bloody, dripping letters woulda been better]....;-)
Type O's doing their first tour in *years* starting at the House of Blues in CA in November.
Too far to go for me but maybe they'll play locally, eventually.
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