LIVES SAVED BY DOGS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17080, 29 June 1923, Page 8

LIVES SAVED BY DOGS.

Remarkably examples of life-saving by dogs are recorded in the annual report of tho National Canine Defence League, London. The bronze medal of the league lias been awarded to: — Benny and Nellie, whose barking led to the discovery of their mistress, lost on Dartmoor, and who was unconscious when, found. Bell, a retriever, who gave the alarm of tiro while her master and his family were asleep. Fluff, a Pomeranian, whose barking saved his master’s life, liis shop and. house being burnt out. ; Tiger, who saved a. boy of eight ; from disowning in the river Ga filer, i Toss, who saved his master, an Anglesev farmer, from being gored to death by a bull.' Paddy, who gave warning of fire at night by pawing his mistress’s arm until he roused her. Glen, a sheep dog, who saved the life of his mistress when attacked by an angry cow, by leaping up and biting its nose and logs, thus causing k the cow to run away. Lucky Prince, who saved his master when caught in tlio quicksands of Llanelly. The dog was given a rope and wont to his master, who had sunk shoulder deep, and was with great difficulty dragged to safety. The report states : ‘•'So far as we can judge there is an increasing sensitiveness to the sufferings of dogs, and a growing current of thought which is favourable to i licit interests.” t '