Dog saves owner from fire, dies trying to save cat
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - 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. Hanson, who lost a leg in a car accident three years ago, said she was on the couch watching television when the cat ran over the back of the couch. “And he jumped onto a table that had a candle on it and tipped it over and lighted the artificial plants on fire,” she said. Hanson said she fell off the couch and was unable to get her artificial leg from the table, “so my dog got my leg for me and went and got the phone and brought the phone to me so I could call 911.” |
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I had read about it...in another account of the story the woman said that the dog had to help her out of the house because her prostetic leg was too hot to put on or had melted. The dog got her out of the house, then heard the cat meowing and went back in for the cat. |
| Ohhhh myyyyy |
| That is so sad. Even more sad just thinking about the dog caring enough ...or knowing he needed to save the cat but when he got in the house "problem-solving" how to grab a CAT! The cat must have already been scared because of the fire, so I can't imagine it letting a dog grab it. |
| Wow, that is heroic...I too can imagine what the cat was thinking, too bad the dog wouldn't leave it and save himself. |
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