dog calls 911, saving his owner's life.

[Cheech]

PHOENIX - "Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy — a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.


full story (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706278/)

[luckydud13]

I saw that, If you heard the operator you would of loled!

[cam191919]

im training my dog to find the remote, why isnt he a newspaper hero?

[Blueiz]

Very cool, just another example of how an animal can be trained..

[Hooked Newbie]

I saw it on the News this morning. Very cool! The operator was funny about it, but in this day and age of nothing but bad press for 911 centers, I was happy that she dispatched immediately.

[NeonFlux]

Cool

[Alan R]

Cool. i love dogs. i used to watch animal planet all the time and remember being just absolutely fascinated at some of the things dogs and other animals have done in an emergency.

[Madcrawdad]

What makes it even more amazing is that the dog called on a rotary phone.






































Just kidding ;)

While it's nice that the dog did this, I suspect that the story is a little misleading. I doubt that the dog actually dialed 9-1-1 on the phone. My suspicion is that the dog actually hit some specially rigged button somewhere that summoned 9-1-1 for the owner.

Nice, but not as amazing as the story might lead one to believe. But I could be wrong, as even chickens have been trained to play tic-tac-toe.

[paperdragon]

While it's nice that the dog did this, I suspect that the story is a little misleading. I doubt that the dog actually dialed 9-1-1 on the phone. My suspicion is that the dog actually hit some specially rigged button somewhere that summoned 9-1-1 for the owner.

Didn't the article specifically say it was a programmed button on the phone?

[Madcrawdad]

Didn't the article specifically say it was a programmed button on the phone?

If it did, I must've missed it

[paperdragon]

Buddy, now 18 months old, is able press programmed buttons until a 911 operator is on the line, Clark said.

^4th paragraph from the bottom of the article.

[Madcrawdad]

Dang. And here I thought the media might be guilty of sensationalizing a news item. I've heard that it can happen. :)