Tiny Terrier Dies After Saving 5 Kids

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A plucky foot-high Jack Russell terrier named George saved five New Zealand children from two marauding pitbulls
2nd May, 2007 - 1:52pm / Post ID: #

Tiny Terrier Dies After Saving 5 Kids

I can't imagine what would have happened if these two dogs would have attacked those kids. The little terrier was definitely a hero.

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A plucky foot-high Jack Russell terrier named George saved five New Zealand children from two marauding pitbulls, but was so severely mauled in the fight he had to be destroyed, his owner said Wednesday.

George was playing with the group of children as they returned home from buying sweets at a neighborhood shop in the small North Island town of Manaia last Sunday when the two pitbulls appeared and lunged toward them, his owner Allan Gay said.

"George was brave _ he took them on and he's not even a foot high," Gay told The Associated Press. "He jumped in on them, he tried to keep them off.

"If it wasn't for George, those kids would have copped it."

One of the children, Richard Rosewarne, 11, was quoted in the Taranaki Daily News on Wednesday as saying George fought with the pitbulls to keep them off his four-year-old brother, Darryl.

"George tried to protect us by barking and rushing at them, but they started to bite him _ one on the head and the other on the back," Rosewarne said. "We ran off crying and some people saw what was happening and rescued George."

But George, aged 9, was so badly mauled that a veterinarian had to put him down, Gay said.

"The two pitbulls ripped the skin from his throat and chest and down his back," he said, adding the tough little terrier also "had a bad heart condition...


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3rd May, 2007 - 1:22am / Post ID: #

Kids Saving Dies Terrier Tiny

What a brave little soldier! I guess this is why a dog is considered man's best friend!




 
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