DOG SAVES DOG

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 8 (Supplement)

DOG SAVES DOG

QNE of the most touching dog .stories we have heard reaches us from New Salem, in .Massachusetts. When Fluffy, a Pomeranian, failed to come home for two days the Briggs family worried and searched high and low for their pet, but after two weeks it seemed that Fluffy must have been stolen. Meanwhile on a farm near by lived three boys who were greatly puzzled by the antics of a neighbour's dog. On their way to and from school it had suddenly begun to bark at them, and at last it seized one of the boys by

the coat and fried to drag him into the deep woods. Realising that the animal was wanting them to follow him, the lads left the road and went after it. Following it for about a mile, they heard a whimpering noise, and there, in a thicket, with a paw caught in a trap, lay Fluffy! Bones were strewn about it and the joyous prancings of the four-footed rescuer suggested their story. .More than once the boys had noticed the dog making for the woods with a hone in its mouth, and now they knew that it had not gone there to bury the bone, but to feed a fellow dog in distress. In this way the {'lever dog had kept its friend alive until it could bring human aid.