Animal Hero of the Week
This week, a brave little dog saved a group of children from two dangerous pit bulls:
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A plucky foot-high Jack Russell terrier named George saved five New Zealand children from two marauding pit bulls, 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 pit bulls 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.
Read the rest of the story here.
Note: Is it just me, or is it odd to describe having to put the hero dog to sleep as being “destroyed”?
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May 3rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
What an amazing story. That Jack Russell may have been little, but he sure had a big heart to protect those kids. And I agree, that’s pretty odd indeed…tragic little hero =/