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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.
Y'all know, of course, that the "cat people" will be along shortly and a great cyber-conflagration will commence.....:)
Your #14 is beautiful, except that I hate to get tears in my eyes this early in the morning.:)
LOL, that would be the truth of most dogs, despite all the sentiment here. Dogs like all beings are basically selfish unless disciplined. And even then it depends on the basic personality - which varies.
I'm not a "cat person", I'm an "animal person". I love cats as I do dogs.
Frankly, I get sick of the "evil cat" nonsense!
If anything, this is a story of "stupid cat"!
No, dogs tend to be the liberals - they not only demand but actually need someone to care for them!
Cats are independent - which meshes better with conservatism. ;-)
At the foot of a man's grave in a local cemetery lies "Rollo".
Supposedly, the dog laid in that spot until his own death and somebody had the sculpture made to honor him.
The man has been dead well over a century and is presumably forgotten by the living yet people still bring Rollo flowers.
I can't look at it without crying.
Remind me to hide behind you when they come.
You are very, *very* brave.....;D
Rose Hill Cem. in Hagerstown!
Saw that when we had a cemetery tour during my gravesite group's "annual meeting".
Very touching.
That was a disturbing movie.
[but then, *any* movie with McDowell is usually disturbing]...;D
I saw "Cat People" at way too early an age. My town had just gotten cable, and my parents did not yet know they had to monitor HBO. The image of McDowell's (I think) arm getting ripped off by the panther stayed with me for a long time. It was extremely graphically done.
You got it....:)
I go there at different times of the year to capture the magnificent statuary as the seasons, lighting and mood change.
[Impending thunderstorms are great].....:))
Would you, by chance, know of any other cemeteries with similar large statuary?
[as in *not* the usual run-of-the-mill flat tombstones]
Even at 21, I saw it "too young". too.....;-D
The underlying current of incestuous psycho-sexuality [pun intended...LOL] was as subliminally horrible as the gore.
I guess, those themes were there, but I was only twelve or thirteen at the time, and the fact that Nastassia Kinski was probably the first woman I ever saw nekkid left a bigger impression on me. I didn't pay a lot of attention to the plot.
Ah-ha.
If you'd said you were a teenaged guy back then, I wouldn't have bothered with plot analysis....LOL!
[it's amazing how Klaus Kinski could somehow be involved in producing somebody pretty as Nastassia, isn't it?]
BTW, if I saw that movie today, I probably still wouldn't bother with plot analysis. I'd just fast-forward to the good parts.
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