Post by Currmudgeon on Jan 18, 2004 17:48:25 GMT -5
Posted on Sat, Jan. 17, 2004
Dog credited for helping rescue neighbor
Associated Press
HOT SPRINGS, S.D. - A 3-year-old Komodore named Sasha is getting credit for helping rescue a woman who fell on a rocky backyard path between two homes in Hot Springs and was unable to get up.
Monty Wooldridge, 60, had just talked to his neighbor Lucy Bradbury, 78, when they met halfway on the sloping path so he could deliver a package of smoked salmon. The two then headed in separate directions back to their own homes.
But when Wooldridge got ready to do some errands and whistled for his dog, Sasha whimpered and whined, and kept turning down the path toward Bradbury's home. Wooldridge followed and found Bradbury lying face down and bleeding. She was calling for help in a weak voice.
"I don't think that I took six or seven steps when my artificial knee cinched up and I did a head flip," Bradbury said. Within minutes, Sasha was by Bradbury's side, licking her hands and running back to Wooldridge for help.
Wooldridge rushed his neighbor to the emergency room where she received 23 stitches. She also suffered two black eyes but there was no major damage to her knee.
Sasha gets the credit for Bradbury's rescue, said Wooldridge, who is hard of hearing and blind in one eye. "If it hadn't been for Sasha, nobody would have found her."
Bradbury agreed. "She's just a very intelligent dog."
Information from: The Rapid City Journal
www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/7735978.htm
Dog credited for helping rescue neighbor
Associated Press
HOT SPRINGS, S.D. - A 3-year-old Komodore named Sasha is getting credit for helping rescue a woman who fell on a rocky backyard path between two homes in Hot Springs and was unable to get up.
Monty Wooldridge, 60, had just talked to his neighbor Lucy Bradbury, 78, when they met halfway on the sloping path so he could deliver a package of smoked salmon. The two then headed in separate directions back to their own homes.
But when Wooldridge got ready to do some errands and whistled for his dog, Sasha whimpered and whined, and kept turning down the path toward Bradbury's home. Wooldridge followed and found Bradbury lying face down and bleeding. She was calling for help in a weak voice.
"I don't think that I took six or seven steps when my artificial knee cinched up and I did a head flip," Bradbury said. Within minutes, Sasha was by Bradbury's side, licking her hands and running back to Wooldridge for help.
Wooldridge rushed his neighbor to the emergency room where she received 23 stitches. She also suffered two black eyes but there was no major damage to her knee.
Sasha gets the credit for Bradbury's rescue, said Wooldridge, who is hard of hearing and blind in one eye. "If it hadn't been for Sasha, nobody would have found her."
Bradbury agreed. "She's just a very intelligent dog."
Information from: The Rapid City Journal
www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/7735978.htm