A dog again proves to be man's best friend. Size doesn't matter--loyalty shown by animals and pets is undying, once again proven by "Ted" the toy poodle--a canine who refused to be grabbed by responding emergency crews and insisted firefighters follow the dog to the basement of a sleeping teenager who would have died in the Utah fire. "Ted" saved a 19-year-old boy's life.
It was Paco the Chihuahua, a mighty pup weighing in at less than ten pounds, who recently saved a business owner in Altadena, California from armed robbers. Despite his small size, Paco the super-chihuahua chased two man armed with a gun down a California street and out of a tobacco store owner's shop, even though the thieves actively waved a gun at the small dog. This time it's a toy poodle to the rescue.
A tiny poodle by the name of "Ted" literally saved the life of a teenage boy in Utah in what would have proved a deadly fire thought to have been sparked by a gas leak. A woman and two small children had already escaped from the blaze but were apparently unaware of anyone else still in the home. One was aware. The dog from Utah insisted on leading firefighters through the house, refusing to leave the home until firemen found a teenager asleep in a smoke-filled basement.
"Ted" the toy poodle had been seen by paramedics who were responding to the late-August fire in West Jordan, Utah. But when emergency crews tried to grab "Ted", the toy poodle strictly refused -- evading human hands that were trying to bring the dog outside, and instead insisting that the humans follow him downstairs in the house. Downstairs in a basement, firefighters discovered a 19-year-old still asleep on a couch -- right where the poodle had led them.
The connection between animals and their owners, or those whom dogs deem themselves responsible to guard, continues to prove unwavering in terms of loyalty. Firefighters in Tennessee were criticized and their action, or lack of action, treated with disgust last October -- when an emergency fire crew of South Fulton firefighters watched a house burn to the ground along with four pets that died over $75. It was all related to an unpaid fee for emergency services, billing that had been provided by the city. Yet despite humans' occasional lack of kindness toward animals, loyalty from pets proves undying.
Dogs continue to do anything to get back to their owners. Against all odds, a Boston dachshund scrambled to survive one month in a burned-out building after a fire, in faith its owner would return to find the dog. And it was just weeks ago that a Labrador Retriever dog continued to mourn the loss of its owner, a fallen Navy SEAL who died in Afghanistan, even after his owner was physically gone -- "Hawkeye" refusing to leave his owner's casket unguarded as the dog mourned at the funeral service in San Diego, California.