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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Yeah, it should’ve said something like,”Adopted dog rescues its owner from burning fire.” Man that was hard!
There are some things that would give me pause about letting them burn in a fire but keys ain’t one of them.
The ability to write coherently is no longer a requirement for employment at the AP.
I know a number of artists who are regularly disoriented and overcome by smoke, and then they get the munchies.
Bet one of the dogs ate through the insulation on a cord.
A true hero dog! =^..^=
Thanks!
Having had keys out to dog-sitters and such, I guarantee you every one of those folks had another key. A buck fifty at the hardware store is nothing compared to somebody's life.
My BIL has a pit-lab. Sweetest dog I’ve ever seen, but 10 min around him leaves me with bruised shins from the tail whipping...err, wagging. I’ll post some pics of him soon.
He sounds as though he’s a lot like mine, a very bumpy, self-assertive, confident, wagging, friendly dog.
Lots of dogs nibble on the cords. The tingling feels good to them. Once they break the insulation and get shocked, they move on to another cord. Best to stop that behavior pretty quick when it starts or you will have a fire sooner or later.
The dog who did it got shocked once and for good. Afterwards you had only to hold up a cord (it was the plug end of an extension cord) to see her shrink away. Didn’t stop her chewing on other things but broke her off of wires forever.
Or “Abused Dog Saves Rescuer From Fire”. I thought the abuser was the one rescued, too.
Unfortunately she was a jumper too, and met her demise in front of a garbage truck.
This reminds me of the first dog I had, a beagle named Buddy. We got him from a breeder when he was about 13 months old. He'd earlier been returned at least once. He, too, was a love dog and not a hunter. Every so often a rabbit would appear in our yard, we'd point Buddy toward the rabbit, make sure it had his attention, and release him. His best rabbit chase was no more than about 50 or 100 feet, after which he'd be distracted and start sniffing whatever caught his attention.
Carolyn
That was one strange puppy!
OMG how sad! I’m so sorry. NOTHING is worth running back into a burning building for ... NOTHING ... only a life. I wonder if she thought that someone was in there ...
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