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Posted by butterfly on Oct-29-2004 16:14:

Dog saves woman's life by calling 911

Dog saves woman's life by calling 911
Friday, October 29, 2004 Posted: 7:26 AM EDT (1126 GMT)

RICHLAND, Washington (AP) -- Leana Beasley has faith that a dog is man's best friend.

Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer.

"I sensed there was a problem on the other end of the 911 call," said dispatcher Jenny Buchanan. "The dog was too persistent in barking directly into the phone receiver. I knew she was trying to tell me something."

Faith is trained to summon help by pushing a speed-dial button on the phone with her nose after taking the receiver off the hook, said her owner, Beasley, 45, who suffers grand mal seizures.

Guided by experts at the Assistance Dog Club of Puget Sound, Beasley helped train Faith herself.

The day of the fall, Faith "had been acting very clingy, wanting to be touching me all day long," Beasley said Thursday.

The dog, whose sensitive nose can detect changes in Beasley's body chemistry, is trained to alert her owner to impending seizures.

But that wasn't what was happening on September 7, and Faith apparently wasn't sure how to communicate the problem. During Beasley's three-week hospital stay, doctors determined her liver was not properly processing her seizure medication.

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Oct-29-2004 16:33:

Awww...

Good doggy.

Posted by bananas on Oct-29-2004 17:00:

I had a Rottweiler named Lyra, she was very clever, but she died about 2years ago..

Posted by generic on Oct-29-2004 17:35:

my dog knows how to "sit"

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Oct-29-2004 18:08:

quote:
Originally posted by generic
my dog knows how to "sit"

I can hardly get my dog to sit, much less shut the fuck up when she sees a bird.

She's a guard dog by nature though - that's why we got her, I suppose.

Posted by Lira on Oct-30-2004 04:05:

quote:
Originally posted by bananas
I had a Rottweiler named Lyra

Posted by Tranc3 on Oct-30-2004 05:05:

Posted by djkoolaide on Oct-30-2004 05:25:

Smart dog I guess.

When my dog was around, she knew how to sleep. That was about it

Posted by BTG on Oct-30-2004 05:31:

i refuse to belive most of this story is true.

Posted by Ken_Allen on Oct-30-2004 05:43:

I heard about a pig walking along the street & in front of someones car because the pigs owner was having a heart attack and led the guy to her house & saved her

Posted by enferno on Oct-30-2004 05:50:

i heard (insert bullshit story here)

sorry for my lack of creativeism

Posted by Nautilus on Oct-30-2004 08:27:

What a phucking perceptive and smart dog.

Did the dog prepare some hors d'oeuvres and cocktails for the when the rescue workers came, just so as to be a good host?

Posted by joshyd on Oct-30-2004 08:28:

haha crazy dog.

our dog has lost all her tennis balls, so she grabs lemons off the tree and uses them instead. she doesnt bit into them hard thou, i think shes learnt not to do that

Posted by Jackson on Oct-30-2004 15:11:

I saw this on Sky news a couple of minutes ago....and Sky never posts bull