Dog saves owner, dies saving cat
I just learned about this article. What a sad story.
Dog saves owner, dies saving cat
October 18, 2006 - 10:26AM
After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying to help the cat still in the house.
Jamie Hanson said the 13-year-old dog named Jesse, a Labrador retriever and German shepherd mix, brought the phone so she could call 911 and also brought her artificial leg.
"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.
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