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Dec 10, 2006, 12:15 AM


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Dog saves owner, dies saving cat

This one touches my heart


October 18, 2006

After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying to help the cat still in the house.

Jamie Hanson said the 13-year-old dog named Jesse, a Labrador retriever and German shepherd mix, brought the phone so she could call 911 and also brought her artificial leg.

"She got me outside and then she heard the cat upstairs and she went up there to get the cat and she wouldn't come back to me," Hanson, 49, said at a news conference Monday at Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center where she was being treated for her injuries.

She received third-degree burns to an arm in the fire Sunday night at her home in the Wisconsin town of Rhine south of Elkhart Lake, the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department said, adding that both pets died in the fire.

Hanson, who lost a leg in a car accident three years ago, said she was on the couch watching television when the cat ran over the back of the couch.

"And he jumped onto a table that had a candle on it and tipped it over and lighted the artificial plants on fire," she said.

Hanson said she fell off the couch and was unable to get her artificial leg from the table, "so my dog got my leg for me and went and got the phone and brought the phone to me so I could call 911."

"I screamed and I screamed for her, but then I just heard her whine and then I didn't hear anything more."

Hanson had trained Jesse to assist her after she lost her leg in an accident.

"I never treated her like a dog," Hanson said.

"She was always like a child to me. She understood every word I ever said to her."

She said she tried to put the prosthetic leg on, but it was too hot, and the dog, a golden retriever-German shepherd mix, came to her aid again before going back inside for the cat.

When rescuers arrived, the house was fully engulfed in flames, the sheriff's department said. Hanson was in the doorway and was assisted by a deputy.

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http://www.smh.com.au/...8/1160850962780.html

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SupaMolly
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Jan 13, 2007, 8:30 PM


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Re: [sun-arrow] Dog saves owner, dies saving cat

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haih.,.. all bcos of the cat


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Jan 17, 2007, 5:50 PM


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Re: [sun-arrow] Dog saves owner, dies saving cat

Oh its sad & touching....

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