
When I read stories like this one, I wonder if it's good to train dogs to do this type of things, itt breaks my heart.
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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. |
The attachment of dogs and people are deep both ways. There probably is no other animal on earth that seems to truly understand us as well as a dog. The connection that we have to dogs is never duplicated:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3817204a11,00.html
As you can see, the kindness goes both ways. In this case, it just didnt work.