This Judge has four legs, he’s a police dog with the Winnipeg police force. On September 26th Judge and his human partner, Constable Scott Taylor, had a night that most in the force can only dream of. They had an unprecedented six arrests in one evening!
Shortly before midnight on Sept. 26, Const. Scott Taylor and police dog Judge, who have worked together since 2004, tracked down and arrested two suspects in a strong-arm robbery in the North End, and recovered the victim’s property.
The fire at a Beltsville, MD home started on Tuesday morning while the Aquilar family were sleeping. Their 6-year-old Doberman, Monster, was outside when the fire broke out and started barking uncontrollably and pouncing on a sliding glass door waking the family up.
The house was equipped with smoke alarms but Monster’s barking woke them up before the first one went off, giving them extra time to get out safely.
The police department in Zanesville, Ohio continue to get donations pouring in for the care of their police dog Bosco who was shot and left paralyzed. On August 23rd Bosco and his partner Officer Mike Schiele were attempting to serve two warrants on Dominick Conley, in the process both were shot and wounded.
Schiele is now recovering at home but Bosco who took two shots, one to the neck the other in the chest, is at the Ohio State University Veterinary Hospital in Columbus. Bosco is fighting to regain the use of his legs, he’s making daily strides. He just started standing on his front legs for a bit and is working on trying to stand on his back legs.
We have the first pick forour new Dog Of The Week feature, and I don’t think the winner will come as any surprise. It’s no other than…drumroll please…Sam, the 2009 Community Service Pet Hero.
I posted Sam and Brittney’s story on Monday and if you haven’t read it yet take a minute to do so, they are an amazing duo.
Sam is a very special dog. I am currently [and will be until May of 2010] training him to become a Certified Service Dog, AND Arizona’s first Courthouse Dog. His job will be to sit up in the witness stand with victims, mainly children, who have been terribly abused and traumatized, and will be a comfort to them and can help them to testify.
There are only four or five other Courthouse Dogs in the US, and out of those, Sam will be one of the first that is actually a Service Dog. The others are only Therapy Dogs, and do not have public access…which means they can be, and often are, removed from the courtroom.
The honor goes to…..Chi Chi, the temperamental Chihuahua. Chi Chi is the winner of the Reader’s Digest Hero Pet of the Year award for helping save two ladies from drowning.
I watched this story on the Today Show and I noticed none of the hosts were standing close to Chi Chi while they did the interview. Apparently Chi Chi is a little protective and no one wanted to take any chances. I’m sure the fact that he bared his teeth at the hosts probably didn’t help.
By sounding a yipping alarm on a North Carolina beach, Chi Chi likely saved the lives of two senior citizens overcome by waves – and was crowned Reader’s Digest Hero Pet of the Year in the process.
Chi Chi appeared humble – if a bit standoffish – in his national TV debut Tuesday, appearing on Rockefeller Plaza as his owners, Rick and Mary Lane, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer and Ann Curry how their pint-size prize rose to the occasion in a big way when danger loomed.
Mary Lane said it was a typical day at the beach for the family last October. She and Rick were relaxing on beach chairs at Indian Beach on North Carolina’s Outer Banks while Chi Chi rested on his own chair – restrained, of course, since he tends to chase after other beachgoers.
“He leapt out of his beach chair, still attached, dragging the beach chair, and he started sending out an alarm,” Lane told TODAY. “He was making a sound we never heard before. Rick said, ‘Hey, what’s the matter with the dog?’ ”
It turned out nothing was the matter with Chi Chi – but there was danger some 100 yards down the beach, where Mary Lane spotted a horrific sight.
A Pork Chop saved a life in this case anyway. A man visiting his daughter was saved by her beagle when the dog started howling after he collapsed.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — “Lately I call him Hero, you know, you’re my Hero,” said June Argenti. “He’s not Pork Chop anymore.”
It’s a deserving nick name for a heroic dog. The nine-year-old beagle mix, otherwise known as Pork Chop, saved 71-year-old Nick Argenti over the weekend.
“I really feel that he was meant to be here,” said Nick’s daughter Kellie Germadnik.
She said her father was working in the garden when he suddenly collapsed. That’s when Pork Chop started howling and neighbors responded, jumping over fences and calling 911.
“I’m very glad. Barbara said she’s had enough dogs in her life to know that it wasn’t a normal bark. She knew there was something wrong,” said Germadnik.
Off camera, Nick and the neighbors say if it wasn’t for the dog, things could have turned tragic.
I think Pork Chop deserves a pork chop, way to go.
If only the firefighter who shot his dogs owned the one in this story. Now that would have been poetic justice at its best.
Berlin, June 23: A dog in Germany shot by a drunken man with a gun took swift revenge by biting off the end of the man’s nose, authorities said on Monday.
Police said the armed man was snooping at night in the yard of a house in Stadtlauringen in northern Bavaria when he shot the Bernese mountain dog from point-blank range.
Before collapsing, the dog leapt at the 39-year-old man and bit off the end of his nose, a local police spokesman said.
Bleeding profusely, the man called police and was taken for treatment in a nearby hospital. His motives for being in the yard were unclear, police said.
Doctors removed a bullet from the dog’s shoulder and discharged it from a clinic after an operation lasting several hours.
Someone give that boy a bratwurst.
* No pic of the dog hero so this is Dogster member Bonnie representing Berners everywhere.
A 7-month-old puppy named Rocky scored a knockout when he saved his owner and her family from a house fire.
It all started when Nicole Kowalewski went to visit her parents in N.J. and took her puppy along.
DELRAN, N.J., June 22 (UPI) –Nicole Kowalewski, 29, said she had brought her young bulldog Rocky back to her family’s Delran home and she was awakened at 2 a.m. by the puppy’s whimpering, the Burlington County (N.J.) Times reported Monday.
“I had him in the bed with me and he started whimpering and it’s not like a bulldog. It’s in their breed to just sleep and snore and cuddle, that’s it,” she said.
Kowalewski said she took Riley outside to try to calm him down, but he started barking after she brought him inside and circled the door leading to the garage.
Twan is a 6-year-old police dog who works in Dekalb County, GA. Last week he was hailed a hero after getting shot in the face protecting his partner while pursuing suspects in a robbery.
Twan’s boss said the dog probably saved his handler, Sgt. Bob Frank, from injury.
“If that dog wasn’t there, [the suspect] would have shot Twan’s handler,” said Lt. AJ Andrzejewski, commander of the canine unit.
Twan originally was treated at the North DeKalb Veterinary Clinic and later was transferred to Georgia Veterinary Specialists where he underwent two hours of surgery to remove 10 bullet fragments from his nose and stomach, Andrzejewski said.
Twan still has a fragment in his neck and a few smaller ones in his nose that won’t be removed, Frank said.
While Twan was in surgery and recovery, Frank never left his side for 36 hours. “Those dogs are like their kids,” said Andrzejewski. “His wife had to bring him sleep wear.”
Twan lives with Frank. “I take care of him 24 hours a day,” Frank said. “He goes where I go.”
Twan has been on the force 3 1/2 years. He has helped take 46 people into custody and aided in $1.6 million in drug apprehensions, said Mekka Parish, DeKalb police spokeswoman.
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We have the first pick for our new Dog Of The Week feature, and I don’t think the winner will come as any surprise. It’s no other than…drumroll please…
