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Tiny dog saves baby from rattlesnake
AP/Yahoo ^ | July 22, 2007

Posted on 07/22/2007 5:23:43 PM PDT by lowbridge

MASONVILLE, Colo. - Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners' 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.

Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents' northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Five-pound Zoey jumped in the way and took the bites.

"She got in between Booker and the snake, and that's when I heard her yipe," Monty Long, the boy's grandfather, said Thursday.

The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive the bites she suffered earlier this month. Now she prances about.

"These little bitty dogs, they just don't really get credit," Booker's grandma Denise Long told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dog; rattlesnake
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To: lowbridge; Prophet in the wilderness

Har har!
8^D


21 posted on 07/22/2007 5:57:05 PM PDT by Clara Lou (Thompson-Hunter '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I’m amazed the dog lived.


22 posted on 07/22/2007 6:22:01 PM PDT by PinkDolphin (J'essaierai de faire mieux la prochaine fois.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

And another good doggy ping!


23 posted on 07/22/2007 7:09:39 PM PDT by osagebowman
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To: lowbridge

Maximus doggus!


24 posted on 07/23/2007 12:21:52 AM PDT by jwh_Denver (In the Rise and Fall of United States I hope the Fall part is more than one chapter.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Female chis, yes...the male ones are simply psychotic. A female chi will defend you with her life...a male will try to “tree” you in a kitchen chair.


25 posted on 07/23/2007 5:36:51 AM PDT by Fire_on_High (I am so proud of what we were...)
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To: lowbridge

I’ve got a better question.....

Why would you let your grandchild play in a bird bath???


26 posted on 07/23/2007 10:24:28 AM PDT by Jeffrey_D. (The only thing I love more than my FreeperFriends is my God, Family and Country !!!!)
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To: Jeffrey_D.

Because there are no shark infested waters in Colorado.


27 posted on 07/23/2007 1:44:35 PM PDT by lowbridge (A Gun A Day Keeps The Government Away)
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