Tara Mattimoe / Times staff Uldene Nash holds her dog Tiny, who led a neighbor to Nash last week after she’d had a heart attack and lay on the floor of her home.
Tara Mattimoe / Times staff Uldene Nash holds her dog Tiny, who led a neighbor to Nash last week after she’d had a heart attack and lay on the floor of her home.
Are the Pekin HS sports teams still known as the ‘Chinks’??
Something similar happened on our street. A woman on the block heard her next door neighbor’s dog barking loudly outside her house. She opened the door and the dog ran in and pressed 911 on her cell phone (she had one of those Jitterbug phones with the big numbers) and waited til the police arrived and then led them back to his house where the cops discovered the dog’s owner had fallen and could not get up. The police said the dog was a hero and it was just a coincidence the owner had landed on bag of Beggin’ Strips.
One thing in the story doesn’t sound right: that the woman would not let the neighbor call an ambulance, but let her call her daughter in law who then called 911. Let me get one thing straight: if you are lying on the floor having a heart attack, I will call an ambulance immediately despite your protestations to the contrary. Weird.