7 Real Life Dogs Being Heroes - Outside Magazine
We're real suckers for a good dog-saving-the-day story. Doesn't matter if it's a professional rescue breed going above the call of duty, or your Average Joe dog playing the unexpected hero—they're all good, and they're all likely to make us a little teary-eyed. On the day after New Year’s 2010, 11-year-old local Austin Forman had a surprise meeting with one of his feral neighbors. That’s when his 18-month-old female golden retriever, Angel, bounded over a lawnmower and began battling the big cat, giving Austin time to dash inside the house, where his mother dialed 911. . When Constable Chad Gravelle of the Royal Canadian... Gravelle shot the cat twice, killing it, and pulled the dog out, assuming she was already lost. But with the family gathered around, Angel sucked in a huge breath and stood up. She’d suffered dozens of deep puncture wounds but survived. When she got home, the family treated her to steak dinner and a new, insulated dog house. Work Like a Dog. When the volunteers of the National Disaster Search Dog (NDSD) foundation found a little black lab in a shelter in Northern California, in 2007, they couldn’t have guessed that just a few years later she would be the American Society for the... Source: www.outsideonline.com
