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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Aww of the Day: Cop Stops Highway Traffic to Save Dog

Cujo was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fortunately, the right cop happened along.

Cujo, a Miniature Rat Terrier with a bad hip, ran away from home one morning several days ago in La Porte, Texas. One of his owners, Jeremy Zapalac, quickly organized a search party. It started raining. Things were getting critical.  

"He hates water," Jeremy later told KHOU 11 News. 

He also said the tiny dog is named Cujo because "he's a monster, frankly," and that he's "a Napoleon type of dog. He's very short, with a very big ego." 

In any case, Cujo was out in the rain. Where, nobody knew. Until Police Officer Kyle Jones spotted Cujo huddled in the cold on the well-trafficked Spencer Highway, hatching a plan. Cujo, it seemed, was going to cross the road. 

"He’s not going to make it if I don’t do something," Jones said of the tiny dog. "When I saw [the dog] and saw the size of it, I immediately hit my lights and shut all the lanes off."

Yep, a cop shut down a highway to save the shivering little dog, who hates water. After he did that, the rest of the rescue operation was all on Cujo. Jones was worried the dog would scamper away. 

"You know how Chihuahuas [sic] are. You're not really sure if you can trust 'em or not," the officer said, laughing. "But he kind of looked at me and said, 'Man, I'm glad you're here.' He let me pick him right up. Stuck him in the back seat of the patrol car."

Cujo had tags, so he was quickly back in the arms of Jeremy Zapalac.

"I was just happy to have him back," Jeremy said. "He was all wet, he was soaked. We got him in, wrapped him up, dried him off, and he just slept in his bed all day." 

Which might have been the end of this story, had not a passing motorist -- well, one of the stopped motorists -- pulled out a camera and snapped a photo of the cop sweet-talking Cujo over to his car. She posted the the photo to Reddit, along with the line "This police officer stopped traffic, in the rain, to save this wet and limping little dog. Faith in humanity.... Restored," and the Internet took it from there.  

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