WOW! Tiny dog saves baby from rattlesnake
MASONVILLE, Colo. - Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners’ 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.
Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents’ northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Five-pound Zoey jumped in the way and took the bites.
“She got in between Booker and the snake, and that’s when I heard her yipe,” said Monty Long, the boy’s grandfather.
The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive. Now she prances about.
“These little bitty dogs, they just don’t really get credit,” Booker’s grandma Denise Long told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.
** I just think that it’s amazing this little dog saved this child, and survived the snake bites!
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:57 pm
also finalizing my need to be afraid of dogs still. They can take out snakes!
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:04 pm
What an amazing story! This is why dogs need much more respect than they receive… they are the most selfless animals!
Jane, P&B Girls