Rescue Dog, Duke, Saves 9-Week-Old Baby From Dying
By Sarah Medina Posted: 10/14/2012 2:13 pm Updated: 10/14/2012 2:13 pm
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| Mom, Baby, and Duke the Dog. Duke reminds me of one of our family dogs -- Hero -- who was a shepherd/setter mix. He passed to the Happy Hunting Ground in the mid 1970's. |
The Brousseau family had already gone to bed on Sunday night when their dog, Duke, who was adopted nearly six years ago, jumped on their bed and began shaking uncontrollably. Duke's behavior immediately woke the couple up, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
"He is insanely obedient, so this was extremely bizarre," Jenna Brousseau told WFSB News.
Duke had never acted like this before, according to the Brousseaus, so they knew something had to be wrong. When they went into their 9-week-old daughter Harper's room to check on her, she wasn't breathing.
According to ABC, Jenna's husband immediatley called an ambulance. Baby Harper was then revived by paramedics, and taken to the hospital.
"If Duke hadn't been so scared, we would have just gone to sleep," Jenna Brousseau said of her heroic dog. She added, "He's the perfect dog, he was meant, meant to be ours."
From The Sideshow, Yahoo News:
Dog stays by missing boy’s side
By Claudine Zap | The SideshowNovember 29, 2012
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| Ashapoo the Dog. Looks like he has some Border Collie blood -- a "herder" breed. |
The spirit of Lassie is alive and well in a dog named Ashapoo. The trusty canine was always at the side of his owner's two-year-old grandson, Peyton.
And that was a good thing when Peyton's grandfather turned his back for a minute as he was planning to take the boy on a trip on the family land in Clover, South Carolina, to find a Christmas tree.
When he turned around, the energetic kid was gone. But so was Ashapoo.
By the time Peyton's parents showed up to join the hunt for their missing son on the 300 acres of woods, they took solace knowing the boy was with his faithful friend.
Said dad Rich Myrick to local station WBTV, "In the back of your mind, you know the dog is going to be with him."
Still, four and a half hours of a missing child takes a lot of faith. It was getting dark and cold. Mom Carmen Myrick noted to WCNC that she took in the hundreds of volunteers, ambulances, the media, and police cars. She says she remembers thinking, "'This is not going to end good.'"
When rescuers made their way to a barn, Ashapoo suddenly appeared, then ran away barking, leading searchers to a sleeping Peyton on the ground. He was fine.
The two-year-old told his family he was scared, he was going to get hurt, and he was cold. Dad Rich said, "I think he got scared and just lay down and took a nap, and Ashapoo stayed right with him." He added, "I guess he felt that was his job to protect him and be with him." And he also said, "I believe the dog was his guardian angel in fur."
The parents said that the dog was their hero. They plan to get him a well earned steak, and they are also looking into a GPS tracker for Peyton.
And this story, which sounds bizarre to me and am wondering if there is more here that wasn't told, but aside from whatever these parents may have been involved in, the baby was certainly innocent and was also saved by the actions of a dog:
Hero dog saves baby from kidnapping, family says
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Sideshow – Wed, Nov 21, 2012
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| Baby Angeles-Morales and unnamed Protector Dog, a pit bull mix. |
A kidnapping attempt was thwarted in Indianapolis on Tuesday when a family's dog stopped an armed would-be kidnapper from leaving the family's home.
Police say a man and a woman broke into the home of Nayeli Garzon-Jimenez through the back door while her husband was at work. Garzon-Jimenez was on the phone with her husband, Adolfo Angeles-Morales, at the time of the break-in.
"She started screaming and crying, and said, 'Someone just stuck their hand in the door,'" Angeles-Morales told WISH-TV. "The guy said, 'Give me the money or we take the baby.'"
"The man said, 'Money, money,'" Garzon-Jimenez said. "I said, 'I don't have any.'"
The woman then grabbed her 3-month-old girl and attempted to flee through the back door.
"But there was something else waiting for her at the back door," WISH-TV reported.
"One of the doggies," a pit bull mix, "didn't let her go through the back door," Angeles-Morales explained.
The woman turned around, "threw the baby back" at Garzon-Jimenez and the perpetrators fled the scene.
The mother, who was hit in the head with a gun during the melee, was treated for cuts and bruises at a local hospital, and was released. The baby was unharmed.
Indianapolis police are now searching for the suspects...
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