Dogs can be Godsends.
I’ve often mentioned Minny my first rescue Ibizan and how she saved my life when the wood stove backed up and filed the house with smoke.
A near-fatal accident at age 20 left me with impaired hearing and no sense of smell so smoke detectors and such were useless.
According to doctors who checked out the lung damage from smoke when I got pneumonia shortly after, it’s very possible I was unconscious and ‘on my way out’ when she started barking in my face while repeatedly jumping on my chest.
If not for her, I and my other dogs would all have died that night.
Dogs certainly ARE man’s best friend.
I’m so glad you had Minny near when you had an emergency!