Posted on 11/25/2007 5:11:11 AM PST by ShadowDancer
Abused Canine Rescues Owner From Burning Mobile Home Twice
Sunday, November 25, 2007
BOISE, Idaho — Candace Jennings rescued Anna, an abused stray dog, from the animal shelter.
During a Thanksgiving Day fire, Anna returned the favor — twice.
Anna, a blond heeler, nudged Jennings about 3:30 a.m., whining and howling. Jennings, who had fallen asleep on the couch, awoke to find her mobile home engulfed in flames.
"Anna woke me up," Jennings said. "I had an awful headache. The place was filled with smoke."
Jennings and Anna ran outside, but then Jennings remembered items she couldn't let burn.
"I'm a janitor in town," she told the Idaho Statesman. "I had everyone's keys in my backpack. I had to go back and get them."
She crawled back into her burning home in Idaho City, about 40 miles northeast of Boise. Anna followed her in, keeping close by her side.
But Jennings, an artist who has lived in the mountain town since 1975, said she became disoriented and was quickly overcome by smoke. She tried to get back out but crawled in the wrong direction, heading toward the pantry instead of the door.
Anna showed the correct way.
"I couldn't find the door," said Jennings. "She pushed on me, she nudged me out the door."
The roof collapsed as Jennings, barefoot and wearing only pajamas, and Anna ran to some nearby trees in the 15 degree temperature. Jennings suffered burns to her feet and then frostbite. Anna and two other dogs Jennings has were not injured.
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Good doggie! What do you want from Santa, Anna?
Regards
So after looking up what a “heeler” is I see there is a breed called “Blue Heeler” aka Australian Cattle Dog. I wonder if this one is a bleached blond version?
Put something like “bl. heeler” in his notes, and then forgot it stood for “blue”.
Hey Anna, your master is an IDIOT!
Rescuing a good dog is one of the finest things a person can do. I know; have two great rescue dogs, on half chocolate Lab and Weimaraner and the other half black Lab and pit.
I was guessing that maybe "blond heeler" was the local reference for what around here is known as a red heeler (as opposed to a blueie).
We have two rescue dogs, too. One is a purebred 13-inch white beagle bitch, angelically sweet but a real loser as a hunter. That’s okay, though. The other is God-knows-what. Very handsome, and absolutely the best dog I’ve ever had, the dog of a lifetime.
Austrailian Cattle Dogs
http://www.kodaranch.com/
New born heelers are white -
and get their color soon after =
Blue Heeler
blond (red)heeler
You saved me from looking the breed up. Very sharp looking dogs.
My late husbands older sister died in a school fire many years ago. She ran back into a burning school building and didn't make it back out.
Great story!!!
Although I think a better headline would have been “Rescued Canine Rescues Owner From Burning Mobile Home Twice” (yes, I, know it’s redundant).
As it reads now, it almost sounds like a dog had rescued it’s abusive owner.
God bless both the owner and the dog, but I think the dog is smarter.
Bad headline writer,bad,bad!
ping
I’m glad Anna wasn’t hurt.
Yup. We didn't always see this crap.
“As it reads now, it almost sounds like a dog had rescued it’s abusive owner.”
That’s exactly how I read it. Good to know it was just an idiot newspaper headline.
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