Lost Dog Saves Man With Down Syndrome From Nearly Fatal Seizure (three tissue story)

Fox News ^ | August 10, 2009 | Unattributed

[Ben Mugged]

Yolanda Segovia heard a knock on her door one morning, just before 8 a.m.

Her neighbor was on the porch, with a dog and a story.

Stacey Savige had found the little dog in front of an elementary school. He wasn't very big, looked like some sort of terrier. Burrs clung to his belly. His honey fur was caked in mud.

He didn't have a collar. Stacey had taken him to the vet and he didn't have a chip, either.

~snip~On Saturday, Azaiah went to his dad's house. Christian retreated to his room to watch a Barney video. The dog dozed beside him.

Yolanda had just stepped onto her porch to water the plants when the dog flung himself into the screen door, barking madly.

As she opened the door, the dog sprinted across the living room, into the boys' room.

Yolanda screamed. Christian was slumped over, his body writhing in a seizure, blood streaming from his nose and mouth.

The dog ran to the boy, still yelping. But as soon as Yolanda bent to cradle her son, the dog went silent.

"If he hadn't come to get me," Yolanda told Stacey later, "the neurologist said Christian would have choked on his own blood and died."

[Fred Hayek]

I sometimes think that guardian angels at times show up as dogs.

[Mila]

"From an accompanying handout of a statue of St. Roch and his dog made by artist Hank Schlau."

Here is a picture of a statue of St.Roch and the dog which is located in the chapel of the New Orleans cemetery that bears his name. I don't know if it's a copy of the one Schlau did, but I thought that you might be interested in seeing it.