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Post by SpyderLady on Jul 23, 2007 8:06:44 GMT -6
Jul 23, 7:56 AM EDT
Tiny Dog Saves Baby From Rattlesnake
MASONVILLE, Colo. (AP) -- Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners' 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.
Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents' northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Five-pound Zoey jumped in the way and took the bites.
"She got in between Booker and the snake, and that's when I heard her yipe," said Monty Long, the boy's grandfather.
The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive. Now she prances about.
"These little bitty dogs, they just don't really get credit," Booker's grandma Denise Long told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.
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Post by SpyderLady on Jul 23, 2007 8:07:24 GMT -6
Poor little dude, hope he will be ok. I really do think pets protect their owners.
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Post by determined on Jul 23, 2007 8:45:03 GMT -6
yes Spydie I know they do.
My older brother had a German Shephard that was more attached to my Dad than he was to anyone else. Daddy went to tend to the hogs one day, the hogs were kept on my Grampy's farm that was deserted after he had died, anyhow for some reason Daddy stepped into the pen with the sow and piglets to do something which would have been fine except he slipped and fell, when he did the sow thought he was trying to get one of the babies and she charged, Tapper jumped in between them and kept the sow at bay until Daddy could pull himself out of the pen and get up. The dog was pretty bruised up and limped around for awhile but was fine.
Then I had a little poodle mix, we were all sitting around in Mom's front yard one evening and Muffy kept running down the bank and barking, of course we told her to shut up but she wouldn't. Each time she was getting closer to us before she barked. Mom got a flashlight and there was a copperhead snake heading right for where we were all sitting. Muffy would get so close to it and it would stop when she barked, but when she stopped barking and started back to where we were it would start comming forward again.
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Post by califgirl on Jul 23, 2007 9:33:25 GMT -6
Awww, great stories. I love animal stories as long as they are happy endings.
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Post by determined on Jul 24, 2007 9:16:11 GMT -6
The German Shephard was a direct desindent of Rin-Tin-Tin and was supposed to be put to sleep when he was a puppy. Maybe he knew that our family had saved his life through a chance encounter my Aunt had at the beauty shop. Seems he was born with a rupture which made him unsaleable and if the woman's husband hadn't been out on the boat when the litter was born he would have imeaditaly put him down. The woman said if she could find a good home to give him to she would, my Aunt got on the phone called the house because she knew that my brother wanted a German Shephard. (also my parents would alot of time take in animals that people didn't want through no fault of the animal) He was never "trained" to do anything but he herded the cattle ect. Just seemed that instints told him what we needed done and he did it. Of course like I said he spent more time with Daddy than anyone. When he was a puppy Daddy would put him in the back of the truck when he went to feed the animals (mostly because he would follow him to the truck and since he didn't want to take the time to put him in the house and didn't want to run over him it was easier to pick him up and take him with him) when they got to where they were going Daddy would pick him out of the back and put him down and tell him "come on". When he turned the cows the right way the first time Dad told him what a good dog he was and from them on all we had to do was let him know where we wanted them to go and he would put them there.
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Post by Owl on Jul 31, 2007 6:04:48 GMT -6
ITS A WONDER THE LITTLE DOG DID NOT DIE FROM THOSE BITES! WE HAVE A ROTT AND HE WAS BITTEN SEVERAL TIME IN THE FACE BY A COPPERHEAD AND HE WAS A SICK PUP! TOOK HIM TO THE VET AND HIS FACE WAS SO SWOLLEN WE COULD NOT TELL HOW MANY TIMES HE WAS BITTEN, A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER HE WENT BACK TO THE VET AND HE HAD AT LEAST 5 BITES!! HE IS VERY PROTECTIVE OF LITTLE MAN AND WILL NOT LET STRANGERS NEAR HIM. HE ALSO WAS LEARY ABOUT LITTLE MANS MOTHER DOING ANYTHING WITH LITTLE MAN ( AND NOW WE KNOW WHY) I GUESS DOGS ARE PRETTY GOOD JUDGES OF CHARACTER!
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skydaddy
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Post by skydaddy on Aug 2, 2007 19:58:25 GMT -6
When I was a kid, I had a couple of dogs that got bit by snakes. We didn't have any vets around here at the time, but somehow the dogs made it anyway. I have had a few dogs that were my favorites, but T-Man or Mr. T as he was known and Girl stand out above the rest. Mr T was a Pit Bull Lab Cross and was the sweetest outside dog I ever had. I could sit on my porch swing and he'd come sit and look at me. Pretty soon he'd come close and put a paw on my upper leg. Pretty soon it was two paws, then he would put his head on me. Pretty soon he would be up on the swing with me and then he'd try to get in my lap, all 70- lbs. of him. Girl was a little stray mostly small poodle. She came right after my wife left and I always thought of her as a God Send. Even when I'd go out of town to visit someone, Girl rode in the passengerv seat and I would stop at this one place for gasoline that had the best fried chicken and I'd always get us each a piece to eat on the way. Sadly, I had to have Girl put to sleep just before Christmas 2005, and yes, I did cry. I still miss that little pooch.
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Post by SpyderLady on Aug 2, 2007 20:49:17 GMT -6
I know what you mean sky. It hurts when you lose them. They become part of the family. I really love dogs and miss having one.
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mammyof4
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life is like a big box of shiiiiiiiiii lol
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Post by mammyof4 on Aug 6, 2007 23:55:57 GMT -6
I guess my favorite one is the mutt that my daddy caught in the woods when he was a pup and he just took up with me and he wasn't even big enough to hardly reach moms heels but one day she whipped me in front of him and he grabbed her heel and bite her and so he ended up tied up. lol He guarded me all the time. but it was hard for him to get off his chain. Daddy ended up having to put a log chain on him and the boy that well I won't go there. But my brownie broke the log chain and took a big hunk of pants, underware, and meat by the time he was through with that boy. hehehe Oh my he was a good dog. I still miss him to this day and he has been gone since 72. Dang it is something how you can miss something that long and it seem like only yesterday when you think bout it.
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Post by determined on Aug 11, 2007 9:08:02 GMT -6
Mom tells about when my Sisters and Brother were little a boxer got dumped off, it took up with them and was gentle so they kept it. Only problem was that Mom had to make sure the dog wasn't around before she could spank any of them. ;D
Then I had a Rat Terrior named Bobby, he never bit when I got spanked but I got a bundle of switches for Christmas and he destroyed every one of them plus any thing that looked like it could be used to spank me. Guess he knew that if he bit he would be gone so he would get rid of anything that could be used to spank me with.
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