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5 tales of amazing dog heroics + Bonus Cat Hero
CNN ^ | Dec 9, 2013 | CNN Staff

Posted on 12/10/2013 6:33:50 PM PST by Innovative

"I hear a hiss and a rattle, and I look down and there's a snake," Maya recently told CNN affiliate KTSM in Hueco Tanks, Texas.

The snake was curled up and ready to strike, but that's when Maya's dog, Psycho, leapt into action.

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A guide dog in training was credited for saving two people from an out-of-control car in San Rafael, California.

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Rick Chap was having a heart attack last year when his cat, Buddy, alerted his wife that something was wrong.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: doggieping; herodogs; kittyping
Nice stories... add yours.
1 posted on 12/10/2013 6:33:50 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Joe 6-pack; Slings and Arrows

Doggieping — kittyping


2 posted on 12/10/2013 6:35:30 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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WOOOF!

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3 posted on 12/10/2013 6:35:46 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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4 posted on 12/10/2013 6:39:54 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Innovative

No story, but our Akita will stop whatever he is doing and pay serious attention if one of us sneezes or coughs. If we aren’t feeling well, he will nose us all over, seemingly to satisfy himself that it isn’t serious and then lay down next to whomever is under the weather, checking on them, periodically.


5 posted on 12/10/2013 6:57:37 PM PST by reformedliberal
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To: Innovative
Yeah, man. We save lives.
6 posted on 12/10/2013 7:05:35 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Innovative
A few years ago Bobo, a rough coated Jack Russel saved our house from catching fire. My husband was napping and Bobo ran up and down the hall from the den to the bedroom, barking frantically until my husband woke up and came to see what was wrong.

A floor plug had shorted out and was shooting sparks and flames up under the sofa. The sofa had already started to burn by the time Bobo got him up.

Bobo was a hero around here until the day he died. Fabulous dog smart and so cute. Good job Bobo RIP!

7 posted on 12/10/2013 7:53:24 PM PST by Ditter
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Sorry, but that guide dog was not a hero from what I saw. All he did was look around. If I looked around noticing a noise and it turned out to be one of these psycho jackasses staring to fire his weapon in the mall, would I be called a hero?

A hero would have at least pushed people out of the way.

Let’s stop dumbing down definitions, and that includes for dogs.


8 posted on 12/11/2013 5:59:19 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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