Posted on 07/19/2014 12:42:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A pitbull has been hailed a hero after he licked the face of a sleeping deaf boy to tell him the house was on fire.
Nick Lamb, 13, was home alone when the fire broke out at the family home in Indianapolis at about 1pm on Wednesday – but he was not wearing his hearing aids.
Pitbull Ace went to Nick’s room and licked his face constantly until the boy woke up and realised the house was filled with smoke.
‘My dog licked my face and woke me up. I was like, “Stop it! What? You want to be fed?”,’ the teenager told Sky News.
‘I thought he wanted to be fed or go outside.’
‘I couldn’t hear anything because I had my cochlear implants off.’
When Nick realised the house was on fire, he covered his mouth and nose with a T-shirt and quickly left the house with the dog at his side.
His mother, Lindsay Bernard, said Ace probably saved her son’s life.
‘It’s amazing, because if he wouldn’t have been there, he probably wouldn’t have even woke up,’ she said.
Nick told firefighters it was the first summer he was old enough to be at home on his own.
The family cat, Pixie, who was also home at the time of the fire, was treated for smoke inhalation and is expected to recover.
Ping
Pit Bull here. He was tasting him.
My American bulldog is still screwing up his courage to walk with me around the neighborhood, following the 4th of July fireworks.
I’m sorry but only posts that show what a dangerous killer PitBulls are may be posted on FR! ...................only slightly sarcastic. Any second someone will surely post that the dog involved was misidentified.
Our boxer went into another room and started barking. I went to check what was going on. The boxer was barking at a lamp that was shooting sparks at the lamp shade.
Good dog!
Deja vu ping.
Why did you give your lamp a gun?
Handsome Guy! Good Boy! Treats!?!
I’m surprised someone hasn’t already said something to the affect that pitbulls like their meat raw , not cooked.
Treats? How about a nice piece of top sirloin!
He probably isn’t trained to know the word “sirloin”... but sirloin would be a nice “treat”... hahahaha!
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