Good Dog! A German Shepherd Stops His Person from Attempting Suicide

And he did it at the last possible second, too.

It's been a big week of dogs saving people's lives. First, we had a Pit Bull protecting a lost toddler for an hour in snowy woods -- he did a such a good job that even rescuers had to stay back until the boy's father arrived. Then we had another dog, this one a stray, huddling with a lost toddler all night in a freezing marshland in Poland. Both kids are fine, though the girl is suffering from frostbite. 

Now, to cap the week, we have something even more amazing, something that might cause you to rewire your brain about how well you think your dog knows you. 

In France, a German Shepherd stopped her owner from committing suicide. And he did it by throwing himself at the rifle the woman had pointed -- and had just fired -- at her chest. The bullet still hit her, but her wound is not life threatening. 

Earlier this week, the 63-year-old woman from Sorgues walked into her backyard with a .22-caliber rifle. She fired multiple test shots, probably to ensure that the gun was working properly. Then she turned the gun on herself. 

Her dog wasn't having it. 

As a police officer told Le Figaro, "At the moment she pulled the trigger, her dog jumped on her and diverted the shot."

The officer added that the dog "probably sensed things and knocked into her to save her" and that the dog was "very affected" by what his owner was doing. 

Did the dog know his owner was going to kill herself? A better question might be: Is there any other another explanation? He knew the gun was dangerous, he knew his owner was going to use this dangerous thing on her own body, and he acted. 

The woman was found by her husband, conscious, and taken to the hospital.  

Via the Daily Mail 

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What Kind of Person Steals a Dog’s Wheelchair?

Lucky with his old wheelchair, which was stolen last weekend, leaving him immobilized (Photo by Dave Feeney via CBS Boston)

If you leave a bicycle on your front lawn, even in a pleasant leafy neighborhood like Dave Feeney’s, you might not expect it to be there when you go back outside.

But a little doggy wheelchair? Who would take a crippled dog’s only means of getting around?

That’s what Feeney and police would like to know after Feeney said he discovered his 12-year-old dog’s wheelchair was missing over the weekend. The theft rendered his dog, Lucky, unable to walk. Essentially it left him with two legs instead of four.

Lucky lost use of his hind legs a few years ago after he was struck by a car in Bogota, Colombia. That’s how he and Feeney first met.

Feeney tells the Boston Globe that he was doing humanitarian work there when he found Lucky dying in the street after an accident.  “No one wanted to help him,” Feeney says. He was told to let the dog die and the garbage men would pick him up the next day. But Feeney could not.

So he got him to a vet and when the dog survived his massive internal bleeding, he named him Lucky.

“He has been the light of my life,” Feeney told the Globe.

Feeney, 63, who now gets by on social security money, said Lucky’s previous wheelchair cost him almost his entire monthly check. But that’s the kind of thing you do for a friend in need.

After his story went public, it wasn’t long before others started sniffing around for help for Lucky. It came quickly, in the form of a brand-new, custom-fitted wheelchair, donated by HandicappedPets.com.

“We wanted to do anything we could to right a wrong,” said HandicappedPets.com spokeswoman Lisa-Marie Mulkern. You can see Lucky’s new wheelchair in the video below. It’s pretty spiffy. Lucky seems to be living up to his moniker once again.

Disabled dog’s wheelchair stolen: MyFoxBOSTON.com

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