Dog in Mercy Dash to Save Farmer's Life

Reuters ^ | June 29 2002

[2Trievers]

VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian farmer's faithful dog saved his life by running for help after a hay-making machine sliced up the 62-year-old's left foot, police said on Friday.

The farmer was working alone on Thursday except for Tschibsi, his one-year-old Alsatian mixed breed, and could have bled to death without help, police in Upper Austria province said.

Tschibsi ran two km (more than a mile) after the farmer's wife as she bicycled into town and barked and whined until she came back. The wife called for a medical helicopter that took her husband to a hospital, where he was recovering.

[2Trievers]

Hero dog and only a year old! &;-)

[sleavelessinseattle]

Awesome Story!!! How do you train a dog to go after a person? Go get 2Trievers, or something? I'd want a puppy to know that...like a ground following passenger pigeon!