Man's Best Hero by Ace Collins l Great American Dogs l Courageous Stories of Dog Rescues l Man's Best Friend l Heroic Acts by Dogs

Looking For a Reason to Live

Perhaps it was because she was deaf and almost blind, but she seemed to have no feat of the angry white-and-gray dog that was terrorizing the other siz canines in the yard...For whatever reason, she was immediately curious about Dillon. As everyone waited for a fight to break out and Skow kept a tight grip on the larger dog's lead, Eve sidled up beside the new visitor and leaned her side into his.

Rather than snap or run, Dillon remained perfectly still for a few moments and then opened his mouth, dropped his long tongue close to the ground, and grinned...Within a minute, the two dogs, one almost completely blind and totally deaf, the other sightless and dead, were rolling beside each other in the yard. Then, with Eve leading the way, Dillon was introduced to his new world by a dog almost as blind as he was.

The Dog Terrorists Could Not Defeat

As she turned onto front Street she likely could see nothing while the sounds of Tower 2 falling were still echoing in her ears. Behind her, lapping her heels, was a war zone filled with scared and confused people and tons of debris. Screams were coming at her from every direction. People were crying for help. She was breathing dust, and her eyes and nose were caked over. She was pulling her master through a scene of absolute pandemonium.

No training could ahve prepared her for this, and every natural instinct demanded she run away as fast as she could to safety. Yet her sendse of duty kept pushing her forward. Though she couldn't understand the concept of Hingson not being able to see, she sill somehow knew that without her leading the way this man would be lost.

What the World Needs Now and Always

As the teen observed her mother and the dog play, her face remained hard, her look vacant...The mother, praying the dog could give her daughter some sense of peace, asked Jill a simple quesion, "Could you put him on my daughter's bed so she can really see him?"

The schoolteacher got a towel, placed it beside the frail girl, and lifted Dakotah up onto the bed. The trained dog remained still, his large brown eyes locked onto the patient until her hand tentatively eased down between his ears. He then nosed forward and licked her cheek. Surprised, the girl's brown eyes grew as large as saucers, and after lifting her bald head from the pillow, she studied the dog, smiled, and then giggled.

Not Just Playing a Hero

More than a mile away, Rudd was tired of Pal's barking and ordered the dog to hush. But the collie again refused and the man walked up toward the front of the boat where his companion was staring out into the fog. For a few seconds, Rudd being at his side seemed to soothe Pal. Yet just when he thought the dog was ready to calm down, it began barking again. What could it be?

After a minute of nonstop yelping, the dog hushed and everything was once again silent. Shaking his head, Rudd was about to force the collie back into the bow when he heard something that sounded like a man's voice. Where had it come from? As the dog and man remained mute, a man's plea for help came faintly again across the waves.

Finding a Calling

As Yvonne drew closer to the highway, she began to run. She covered ten feet and then twenty about as fast as a toddler could...Though she was now stepping out into the street, the drivers of a car and truck coming toward the intersection never saw the little girl. With huge chrome bumpers and thousands of pounds of steel just a few feet away, Yvonne was about to make a second step, this one likely fatal, when Lulubelle reached forward, grabbed the toddler's dress, and yanked the child back onto the sidewalk.

The dog then knocked the girl to the ground and sat on her. No matter how loud the screaming child yelled or how hard she kicked, the fifty pounds of fur would not budge...Two minutes later a frantic Wilma arrived at the scene to find Yvonne still pinned to the ground by a dog that somehow realized the tactic was the only way to keep the little girl safe.