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Animals News tagged with hero dog

Dog Hailed as 'Hero' for Trying, in Vain, to Rescue Drowning Oakville Woman
Animals  (tags: golden retriever, hero dog, drowning lady, bravery, courage )

Simone
- 89 days ago - nationalpost.com
Animal-welfare officials are hoping to honour a ''hero'' golden retriever who apparently attempted to rescue a drowning Oakville woman on Wednesday afternoon. A 66-year-old woman walking her dog along the shoreline apparently slipped on a rock and fell
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Neighbor's Dog Saves Wheelchair Bound Man From Fire - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: wheel bound man, rescued by dog, german shepherd, bonding, love, hero dog, neighbours dog )

Simone
- 99 days ago - fortheloveofthedogblog.com
The Huntsville, AL home of a wheelchair bound man, Ray Worilow, burned to the ground recently, and he says he would have gone with it if it wasn't for one uncommon hero, the neighbor's five-year-old German Shepherd, Deja! Gotta love these canine heroes!!
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Lost Dog Saves Man With Down Syndrome From Nearly Fatal Seizure
Animals  (tags: little dog, lost, rescued, new home, saved man, hero dog, bonding )

Simone
- 110 days ago - foxnews.com
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
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Moja the Dog Wouldn't Leave Dead Master
Animals  (tags: moja, hero dog, tragedy, car accident, death, locations, bonding, loyalty )

Simone
- 110 days ago - news.com.au
A SCRUFFY bitzer dog called Moja was hailed a hero after sticking by his dead master's side for two days and guiding rescuers to the hidden spot where the Sunshine Coast man crashed his car. Consultant horticulturalist and DPI researcher Henry Drew,
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Hero Dog Sandbag Forced to Stay in Iraq Despite Desperate Pleas From British Troops
Animals  (tags: british troops, hero dog, staying behind, protests )

Simone
- 113 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Downing Street has rejected pleas for a 'hero' dog who served with British troops in Iraq to be brought back to this country. Sandbag had been living with military personnel at their base in Um Qasa, near Basra, and was credited with bringing them good
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Dog Brings Help for Severely Crash Injured Owner
Animals  (tags: hero dog )

Annelies
- 342 days ago - petloverstips.com
"It's amazing. I didn't think she could reason like that," 82-year-old Elwood Cardon said. "When she was a pup, she tore into everything. She was 'that damn dog.' Hell, now I would set a place for her at the table."
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Dog Saves Woman From Sexual Assault
Animals  (tags: texas, animals, dog, attack, sexual assualt, hero dog )

Jacquelin
- 356 days ago - kxan.com
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin police are looking for a man who may be targeting women who are alone at bus stops. A 23 year old woman told police she had just missed her bus at a stop in Rundberg Lane when a man stopped and offered her a ride. The victim told
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Family Dog Saves Little Mate From a Deadly Snake - Australia
Animals  (tags: dog, child, australian cattle dog, queensland, australia, snake, hero dog, hero, award )

Chrissy
- 378 days ago - noosa-journal.whereilive.com.au
Man's best friend has proven himself again, this time saving a three-year-old toddler from the bite of a venomous snake. Diesel, a blue cattle dog-cross, leapt between his young friend and a huge brown snake, receiving a near-fatal bite himself.
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Hero Dog Saves Woman From Rape
Animals  (tags: hero dog, saves woman, rape, dogs, bonding )

Simone
- 392 days ago - petloverstips.com
On Wednesday morning, a St Louis woman, Tonya Kendall, had one of the scariest moments of her life when a 'cable guy' knocked at her door at about 11:30. Alone in her apartment with just her 11 month-old son and her dog, she answered the door, knowing
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Cancer Sniffing Dog - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: hero dog, save owner, cancer sniffing dog, detects cancer, bond, friendship )

Simone
- 413 days ago - petloverstips.com
A North Texas woman says her dog saved her life by sniffing out her cancer. She rescues, saves and fosters dogs and one of those dogs she saved, saved her. It's been proven scientifically that dogs can smell cancer and this little dog did. Pat credits
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Dog Saves Tot From Fiery Inferno - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: bravery, family dog, rescued toddler, house fire, animals, gratitude, bond, hero dog )

Simone
- 415 days ago - petloverstips.com
If not for their family dog, Buddy, Jason and Heather Breiding of Paducah, Kentucky, may have lost one of their most precious treasures, their one-year-old daughter, Samara. Jason was cooking when a grease fire broke out. All he thought about was
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NEW ZEALAND ~ GEORGE the LION-HEARTED ~ 14-Year-Old Jack Russell Terrier Sacrifices Life Defending Care2 Member's Five Children
Animals  (tags: hero dog )

Dave
- 434 days ago - herodog.bravehost.com
Every Dog has a tale to tell, and if George was alive today, he would probably just bark a humble and quiet bark. But this very brave dog risked his life to save five children he loved dearly, from two angry dogs who were not out to play with his friends.
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Hero Dog Saves Family
Animals  (tags: housefire, hero dog, saved family, bonding, courage )

Simone
- 598 days ago - news.com.au
A PET dog alerted a Fullarton family to a fire that engulfed a bedroom and filled their home with acrid smoke. Flames took hold of a room at the front of the Fisher St house where Kate Day, 21, was sleeping about 6am today. Fire investigators
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Dog That Saved Family From Fire Seeks New Home
Animals  (tags: bj, hero dog, saved family, owner disabled, needs home, garrett animal shelter )

Simone
- 598 days ago - fultonsun.com
He saved his family, now he needs someone to rescue him. B.J. - the 3-year-old pit-bull mix who saved the lives of his owner, Kimberly Frye, and her boyfriend when he alerted them after a fire broke out in their home on Feb. 29 - could be euthanized
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Hero Dog Bitten Defending Little Ebony
Animals  (tags: hero dog, saved little girl, brown snake, bittten, recovery )

Simone
- 643 days ago - news.com.au
ROARY the Staffordshire bull terrier turned lifesaver when he saw a deadly brown snake rear to strike three-year-old Ebony Davis. Roary jumped on the 1.5-metre snake, bit it and swung it clear of Ebony and her father in the backyard of their home.
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