DOG HEROES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1936, Page 4

DOG HEROES

THEIR HALL OF FAME. Heroes that ask no more of life than one good meal a day and somewhere oul of the draught to sleep at night now figure in a London “Hall of Fame,” states .-in exchange. They were praised to the skies by scores of men and women who attended the opening of Mrs. G. Shaw Baker’s exhibition in the Cathcart Galleries, Knight bridge, London, of pastel portraits of dog heroes and other animals. Ono of the pictures is of Perro, a curly black retriever owned by Mr. P. Robinson, of Sheffield. A 17-year-old girl fell into the River Doe while it was in full spate, and Perro saved her by dragging her to the shore. Then there is Rover, who won the V.C. collar for bravo dogs when he was only live months old. He saved his master’s three children from death when a tent in which they were sleeping caught fire. There are dozens of heroes like that whoso memories are preserved in the

pictures sketched by Mrs. G. Shaw Baker.

The most famous of them all was at Hie show in person. Ho is Bob of Carmel, an Alsatian, owned by Mr. Elliott Durham, of Northwood, Middlesex. ' Bob has twice saved his master’s life, once from a blazing car and again from death by falling over a cliff. Ho was judged the bravest dog in America in 1913, when 5000 dogs competed for the title. On this occasion ho carried a bouquet of flowers in bis mouth and gave them with a gallant bow to Frances, > Countess of Warwick, who officially opened the exhibition.