Bam...
Posted on 02/14/2005 4:12:45 PM PST by Libloather
Dog Praised For Waking Women During Fire
POSTED: 2:26 pm EST February 14, 2005
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Firefighters in Greensboro are praising a dog for alerting two women to a fire in their home early Monday morning.
Authorities said Rebecca Hanlin and Dorcas Ellis were asleep when the dog, named Bam, began barking constantly. The barking awakened the women and alerted them to the fire, allowing them to leave the house without harm.
"If he wouldn't have woke me up, I wouldn't be here," Hanlin told WXII 12 News. "I'm pretty sure of that."
The fire started at about 4:40 a.m. at the residence on Clifton Road.
Hanlin initially thought someone was breaking into her house. She ran upstairs to check on her aunt, and when she came back down she realized why Bam was barking.
"When I came downstairs my room had pretty much filled up with smoke," she said, "because it kind of hit my face as I was going out the door."
Firefighters found the dog unconscious on the second floor of the home, but they managed to get him out and resuscitate him.
Veterinarian Brooke Schwabenton said Bam is suffering from smoke and mucus in his lungs.
"He's not out of the woods, but he is doing pretty well for what he went through," Schwabenton said. "So we'll keep a close eye on him."
It's believed an electrical failure in a panel box located in the laundry room may have sparked the fire.
Cough!
I'm fine now.
A living smoke alarm.
You'll never see a cat do this.
Dogs rule!
I knew before opening the thread the dog wasn't a pit bull or Ambrose would have been posting.
"She ran upstairs to check on her aunt"
(and apparently ran back downstairs without grabbing her dog.)
If there's a fire in my house, all three of us are getting out or none of us are getting out. I would not leave my dogs to burn to death inside a building alone.
ROFL!!!
FYI....
hmmmm...were they liberals?
Just kiddin'
Give the felines a break.
Actually, I recall reading about a cat who alerted his owner to a fire and at least of one who dialled 911 when the owner needed medical attention, but I've heard of more dogs than cats doing such things.
Arf.
My first comment when I read this article was "She left the dog behind?"
I'm with you!
I ain't buying the part about the cat calling 911.....
Translation of the barking
"Hey wake up, I was trying to get at the pork chops you left on the stove, and I accidently turned on the burner, and, and, well there's a lotta smoke down here!"
They say a dog's mouth is cleaner than a humans.
Sorry, but my best friend's life was saved when his cat did the same thing.
Cats have done it. Don't you watch Animal Planet? And why the heck didn't those women get the dog out of the house? I would not have left my dogs or cats in the house.
There was a Mother cat a while back that rescued her kittens from a burning building. She fought her way back and fourth through the fire to fetch each and every one of those kittens. Even with both ears brunt off she went back in until she saved all her babies.
I figured the humane society would put her to sleep she was so bad off. But they didn't. They gave her all the special care they could. She got well and some lucky cat lover adopted her.
http://www.nbc5.com/family/2987493/detail.html
Fire Dept. Honors Extraordinary Cat
Feline Honored For Saving Family From Fire
Wrong ;)
That was the cat that finished a NYT cross word puzzle while the fire fighters were coming to their rescue, wasn't it?
Way to go, doggie. He really is man's best friend, no slight intended to cat owners.
Aw, what's the big deal? My cats wake me up three or four times a night, and there isn't even a fire.
Man's best friend bump
SCARLETT!
My Mom was the head of HR at NSAL when she was there...she was a special cat, and fully recovered from her injuries. Most of her hair has grown back and you can hardly tell she was burned (last my Mom heard).
Take a closer look at the dog.
Body and head shape match.
Ears are full prick, not unusual. (4 out 18 pups that I am aware of have full prick)
If this dog had bitten these women, I know damn well what the headlines would be screaming.
I hate the media almost as much as I hate leftist politicians.
Good dog!
Cat used to catch pigeons for him to eat. In gratitude he had their portrait painted together.
At a time when my heart was really bad I had something on the stove and went in my bedroom and flopped on my bed just to take a load off my feet but was so tired I fell immediately to sleep. I woke a while later to a loud persistent pounding on my bedroom door. It was my cat Mathias or better known as Tiggy Tiger. He had never before or since pounded on a door. I got up and opened the door and smelled lots of smoke and went into the kitchen and pulled the pan off the burner. The kitchen was full of smoke. Tiggy Tiger may have saved my life. The interesting thing was that Tiggy was a very problemed cat that many people would not have kept. It took a lot of time and patience to tame him. We had found him and he must have been abused before we got him. He was like a roaring lion for a time and he bit large wholes in the rest of the cats that would end up very infected. Finally we prayed for deliverance's for him and in the name of Jesus cast a demon out of him and he stopped biting the other cats. The interesting thing is that at one time I had a vision of him with a little gold crown on his head and told my family and friends that I had had a clear vision of none other then Mathias with a gold crown on his head, of all cats. Years later after he saved me I think it is how he earned that gold crown, for saving one of God's kids.
Folks, what we have here is an opportunity.
This is the email address of the station news director..... newsdirector@wxii12.com
Here's a sample letter that has been sent...
Your piece of February 14th has been brought to my attention. Bam
looks like a pit bull terrier. If so, you should give this dog and
his breed the credit they deserve for being loyal, brave and loving.
The media are quick enough to jump on "Pit bull mauls", even though
they're frequently wrong about the breed of dog. Let's see some
balanced reporting about "Pit bull terrier loves and risks life to
save". This type of dog has walked a hard road through history,
battling media misinformation and abuse by vicious humans.
Responsible, balanced reporting would go a long way towards
correcting the public misapprehension about the character of the pit
bull terrier.
I feel that way about the Ferocious Feline Bebop Trio and the Dread Boston Salty.
Cats are not publicity hounds.
Yeah?
Well, when I see ol' Blue brush his teeth after licking his privates, I might believe that.
The Power of FR
Yes! SCARLETT! Thank You! I couldn't remember her name.
Poor little thing, she was willing to do what ever it took to save her babies. It's good to know she got her hair back.
I love both dog's and cat's. We have three dogs, all black labs, and right now (because we had babies) seven cat's. LOL!
woof
There were 2 Peteys.....The makeup guy forgot which eye had the ring around it and he put it on the opposite side on the new Petey.
The dood (or doodette) did one job for years and had a 50/50 shot on the new hound? Sounds kinda like an urban myth...
Its in a book on the Little Rascals ...maybe he was drunk
Aaaaargh! True--lol!
Come now, cats can't do crosswords--just word searches. ; )
It was on Animal Planet's Amazing Rescues or some such program. 911 has a tape of the "call", which consists of insistent meows. The cat must've hit the phone off the hook and then a speed-dial button or the appropriate numbers--a miracle however it happened.
I remember about the heroic mother cat...what a mom!
I sent it. The head looked like a pit to me too.
You can bet if that dog had bitten someone it would be called a pit.
Have you ever read Vicki Hearne, "Bandit, Dossier of a Dangerous Dog." She rescued a pit from "death row" and wrote about media prejudice against the breed. She was a dog trainer who was trained by the late great William Koehler. His training books are terrific.
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