My first Ibizan Hound, Minny, saved me when the wood stove back drafted, filling the whole house with smoke.
I was completely unconscious and I awoke to her jumping on my chest with her front paws and barking into my face.
I got the dogs out, shut down the wood stove and we all sat huddled in the dark sub-zero cold until the smoke cleared.
I got smoke inhalation double pneumonia but I was alive.
I saved her from death row -literally- minutes before she was to be put to death.
That dog repaid me many times over, including jumping on the ex who was ‘sleeper holding’ me to kill me.
Dogs are more than we think.
Yes. Who can say that animals have no souls, or no sense of something byond intuition or instinct? God apparently didn’t make us privy to that information. I only know that they taste good on occasion, and if one saves your life then it doesn’t. You’d give your own life to save that animal too, that’s a fact.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/321997
Here’s another from a few years ago where the dog jumped on the owner when she was choking. And, a heartwarming story of a dog who was being strangled by a phone cord & dialed for help. Could it have been an accidental dialing...perhaps, but who knows?
Then there’s this one, where the owner accidentally left the dog in a hot car...so the dog decided to get attention by honking the horn.
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/weird/Dog-Saves-His-Own-Life-by-Honking-Horn-100168879.html
Dogs are just SO STUPID...LOL! Whatever makes the cretins feel better about themselves, I guess. After thousands of examples of dogs saving people from fires, floods, the enemy during wartime...one would think that it would be rather obvious that dogs possess a good deal of intelligence.
Around here, the worthless rubes keep their labs outside in pens “’cuz they’s worthless for huntin’ if they’s housedogs.” Then, you will hear them complain that their “stupid” dog ran away.
Um, no..the dog is fleeing in an attempt to find intelligent life that it knows must exist somewhere...LOL!