Denise Long holds her grandson, Booker West, 1, as he pets Zoey, held by grandfather Monty Long in the backyard of their home near Masonville.
Posted on 07/22/2007 5:23:43 PM PDT by lowbridge
MASONVILLE, Colo. - 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," Monty Long, the boy's grandfather, said Thursday.
The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive the bites she suffered earlier this month. 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.
Wow! What a dog, I’m glad she survived.
Greater love hath no doggie...
Thanks for the post. Good to read a story with a happy ending.
My question is, though, in reference to the writing. Why would a snake "slither up" to a human?
So there is truth to the whole “small, but fierce” thing.
Because a snake doesnt have legs to walk on over?
;-)
Maybe the birdbath was the snake’s hunting territory? and didn’t want competition?
Doggie hero story of the day.
AW..
Such a great, hero, dog story to then be ruined. Couldn't they have said that the dog now leaps and jumps just fine now?
Prancing - that's so gay...
But it is a Chihuahua. We’re not talking about a Pit Bull or a Bulldog. :-)
Denise Long holds her grandson, Booker West, 1, as he pets Zoey, held by grandfather Monty Long in the backyard of their home near Masonville.
Michael Vick would like to sign the little guy up. Lacks size, but it’s the size of the fight in the dog that count, says Mike.
Lucky pup, I’ve seen bigger dogs die before I could help them.
Prancing - that’s so gay...
Don’t say that to Zoey, she’ll bite your nads off.
Good dog Bump.
” My question is, though, in reference to the writing. Why would a snake “slither up” to a human? “ because it is a Democrat ?
Awwww....
Awwww....
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