Posted on 10/15/2012 11:51:30 AM PDT by Kartographer
A Connecticut shelter dog is being credited with saving the life of an infant who had stopped breathing.
The dog, named Duke, alerted the baby's parents that something was amiss by jumping into their bed in the middle of the night. The dog was shaking uncontrollably.
"He's insanely obedient so this was extremely bizarre," Jenna Brousseau, speaking in an interview with WFSB-TV, said of Duke's Oct. 7 behavior.
She and her husband decided to check on their daughter, 9-week-old Harper. They found that she wasn't breathing.
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The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.
George Graham Vest - c. 1855
“LIKE”
... sniff ... sniff/blurry monitor
I miss ‘em all. Their lives are so short.
Won’t ya let me tell ya bout’ my best friend.......
Won’t ya let me tell ya bout’ my best friend.......
They also serve those who stand, sit, lay down, roll over and wait
Thanks Duke...You are the baby's best friend!!
Let me see if I can decide who has more loyalty to American;s, the dog who lays by his masters coffin or the mac daddy administration who abandons its Ambassador in a foreign country and instead buys Volt cars and builds charging stations?
I heard Bo the Dog is voting for Romney. Something about disagreeing with his master’s choice of meat dishes.
Good DOGGIE PING!
I thought my best doggie friend was missing last night and I almost had a heart attack looking for him. Then we discovered he was in a spare room behind a closed door, waiting patiently for me to open the door. wow that was close!
Me, too!
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