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BPO Rainbow Bridge Forum => Remembering those no longer with us. => : Leah-n-boy-os October 18, 2006, 04:58:34 AM

: What an incrediable selfless and brave pup.
: Leah-n-boy-os October 18, 2006, 04:58:34 AM

Go swiftly and peacefully to your rest brave one.

Dog saves owner from fire, dies trying to rescue cat
POSTED: 1:53 a.m. EDT, October 18, 2006
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ELKHART LAKE, Wisconsin (AP) -- After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying unsuccessfully to rescue the cat.

Jamie Hanson said her 13-year-old dog Jesse brought her artificial leg and a phone she used to call 911.

"She got me outside and then she heard the cat upstairs and she went up there to get the cat, and she wouldn't come back to me," Hanson, 49, said at a news conference Monday at Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center, where she was being treated for her injuries.

She received third-degree arm burns in the fire Sunday night at her home in Rhine, south of Elkhart Lake. Both pets died.


Found here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/hero.dog.ap/index.html

: Re: What an incrediable selfless and brave pup.
: Nicole October 18, 2006, 05:16:39 AM

Oh man. What an amazing boy. I'm sure that she was lucky to have had him on a number of occasions. I hope that she is able to find a dog to help her in those ways.

Good Job, Jesse! Make sure when you get to heaven, you whoop that cat's bootie!

: Re: What an incrediable selfless and brave pup.
: Luvmydanes October 18, 2006, 05:49:53 AM

oh, what a sweet but sad story.

: Re: What an incrediable selfless and brave pup.
: Kirsti October 18, 2006, 07:09:59 AM

What a great boy! Even to go in to try and save the cat... how cute, he's a hero! 

~K

: Re: What an incrediable selfless and brave pup.
: BarkleysMum October 18, 2006, 08:35:42 AM

Dogs never cease to amaze me.  Godspeed Jesse.