‘He’s a hero’: Pupper’s keen sense of smell and loyalty saves family home and reptile sibling from disastrous fire

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Feb 15, 2025 3:00 PM EST

You know it is funny, we grew up with wholesome movies like Lassie, thinking that any dog worth its fur would be high on alert to pawtect their family in the event of trouble. But over the years and millions of derpy dog videos that have been strewn about the internet, much if not all hope of coming across a canine commando such as lassie has all but lost its appeal. That is, until this brave buddy stepped on the scene and became an action hero, not once, but twice over.

For you see, today we dive deep into the story of a border collie who had traded the sheepdog life for the house dog life, but not at the expense of his sharp sense and sense of loyalty to his family. And the moment that he sensed that something was wrong, he made sure that the right people were informed to have the situation dealt with. He pawformed cool and composed under pressure, and did not let his lack of language skills stop him from getting across that there was something disastrous afoot.

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    'The first time he saved a life was when he was perhaps a year or two old.'
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    My collie is now 11 years old. And he is a very intuitive dog.
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    The first time he saved a life was when he was perhaps a year or two old. I remember I was sitting on the floor, laptop on the coffee table, my mum in the shower. My dog
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    was just sleeping next to me but then suddenly he jumped up and ran upstairs. At the time I thought nothing of it. He
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    normally did this when my mum came out of the bathroom. But then I heard him scratching on a door. So naturally I went to investigate. I found out
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    he was at my bedroom door, and when I opened it, my room was full of smoke. My bearded
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    dragons heat lamp fitting had come loose, and the bulb was pointing at the back of his wooden home - it was burning through.
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    I was able to turn off the light, take him out and put him somewhere else while the smoke cleared, and repair the fitting. The
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    bearded dragon d last year aged 13 - he would have so much younger if it wasn't for my dog, and perhaps even worse would have happened.
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    He even helped out our Jack Russell who had become tangled up at the end of the garden (his collar became caught). He
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    did the classic running back and forth til we followed him, and led us to poor little Charlie stuck. He's a hero
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  • Collies are known for their smarts, but that is usually related to sheep and the gathering of sheep. But it seems as though, in the absence of sheep, this clever canine turned its intelligence towards pawtecting his family and home. It is good to know that his talents are not being wasted and that he is bettering himself through education to make tomorrow a safer day for everyone involved.

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    littlemiss... Our golden retriever was the most intuitive dog I've ever experienced.
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    She was always naturally mannerly, but she dialed up the gentleness even more around children and older people. So it was a
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    shock when she ran at and knocked down my elderly grandmother, seemingly out of nowhere. While in the hospital for her fall, the doctors discovered she had
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    a silent heart issue that required immediate treatment. Without the fall, she would have never known.
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    After that day, she was always overjoyed to see my grandmother, but she (the dog) always sat when she got a few feet away, as if
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    to say "I won't jump this time! That was just the once and it was for your own good!"
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  • Proof that sometimes pushing is the best policy, especially if you happen to be a medical expert who has been trapped in the body of a canine who cannot specifically express what needs to be done. In such a case doing anything that would get this hooman to a hospital to be checked out is better than standing around and doing nothing.

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    tommy1303 This was years ago but one day my dog was sleeping in my grandmother's room. He suddenly started barking out of nowhere. He
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    found that there was a snake in the room and started growling at it. There was a farm near our house. Luckily no one got hurt and snake was taken away. Dogs are very sharp and are able to sense it.
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