Dog Saves Boy from Cougar
In memory of my beautiful and daily missed: Ashley.
Seems just when I lost almost all faith in “humans”…Angel came along to teach me there is still pure love in this world…..
Austin Forman was hauling firewood in his backyard on the weekend - one of the 11-year-old’s weekly chores - when his golden retriever, Angel, began acting strange..
Boy’s dog saves him from cougar
The boy spotted what he first thought was a strange dog emerge from the shadows. Just two metres away, the cat charged at him. “He was like, aw, crap, it’s a cougar.”But Angel was ready - the young dog leapt at the hungry cougar and “took the whack,” Mr. Forman said. The boy escaped inside his home while the two animals battled for several minutes.
“The cougar was latched onto her head, you could hear both the dog and the cougar screaming. Then it went silent.”
“We brought it out on the snow, the dog was laying there lifeless,” he said. As the family gathered, consoling Austin, the dog suddenly sprang up. “She coughed a bit of blood, she started wagging her tail, snuggled up to Austin and licked him.”
Y’all know how I felt about my doggie Ashley sweet friends.
“If there are no dogs in Heaven,
then when I die I want to go
where they went.”
Will Rogers
“Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit,
you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
Mark Twain
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams
Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.
Corey Ford
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.
Phil Pastoret
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
Amen to that.
January 5th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Angel, you are so skilled at hitting on the emotions. Great post, great story.
January 5th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
I have said it hundreds of times….and it bears repeating here.
It is not a coincidence that DOG is GOD spelled backward…
My dog was the ladder from Earth to Heaven….i know she will be wagging her tail when she sees me….
January 5th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
So lets see here..
the dog that saved the child’s life is named ANGEL….
and your name is ANGEL….
Two life savers!!!!!
January 5th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Great story and so uplifting.
January 5th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
That’s cute, Angel! We all love a hero.
Um, at first I thought it was going to be a swipe at Diane Sawyer…
January 5th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
What a story. Dogs are indeed man’s best friend…
January 6th, 2010 at 3:17 am
Great story Angel,thanks for posting it!
Got 2 Lab/mixes here,1 gold-Bailey (14) and 1 pure black-Riley (2). Best dogs I have ever had but loved my lost canine family members just as much. (You may have guessed I have Irish heritage,,lol)
January 6th, 2010 at 5:16 am
I love this story, Angel. Dogs are intelligent and brave. In fact, they could give a lesson or two to some humans.
Sorry about your dog. Must have been really hard.
January 6th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Awesome! And they got a great throw rug out of the deal
January 6th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Ah Angel, it’s a SMALL WORLD!
I had a yellow lab, Blondie! She was so sweet and adorable…I found her in the alley and rescued her…this was some years ago. I need to dig out her photo’s and scan them and have on the computer, but when I see photo’s of my dear departed doggies and relatives, it depresses me.
This is a great story, I saw on the news the other day!
You write such beautiful things about our best friends!
Another reason why I luv ya (Huggs)
January 6th, 2010 at 10:51 am
PS: I just tweeted this!
Are you on twitter? I don’t see a button link.
You need to get on there girlie! ((((Hugggssss)))))
January 6th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
What a great story Angel, I love stories like this. And what a cute dog.
Dogs are so very smart.
January 6th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
I love a touching dog story, and this is one of the best. Thank you.
January 6th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Great story!! The dog is mans best friend. That is an amazing how the dog protected and saved the boy.
Loved all the dog quotes.
January 6th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Dogs are one of the best gifts God has given man.
January 6th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Aww, what a lovely story. I’m so glad that both Austin and Angel are okay. God really knew what he was doing when he gave us dogs as companions, didn’t He? Thanks for sharing this!
January 6th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
God bless all the dogs here on Earth and in Heaven.
January 6th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
That is an awesome story. Thank you for sharing. I am pretty sure Austin and Angel are best pals if they weren’t already. I liked the dog quotes especially the one about counting. Take care.
January 7th, 2010 at 3:20 am
Angel, We hadn’t had a dog in 17 years then about 5 years ago my daughter got us a little rug rat and we don’t leave the house without her..(she won’t let us). Great post as usual…..stay well….
January 7th, 2010 at 5:45 am
What a lovely story, good on Angel for saving the kid and thanks for posting it Angel.
Oh and i hope you weren’t too put off by my post about India, i have put up another one, please do read it, there is a lot to like about India.
January 7th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Loved that story, Angel. Thanks for sharing it.
We lost our beloved Dax in 2008 and I remember you left a comment about how she and Ashley were now playing together in Heaven. It made me misty-eyed then, and seeing Ashley is making me misty-eyed again.
January 7th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Aww. I’m such a sucker for a good dog story.
Thanks, Miss Angel.
January 8th, 2010 at 7:17 am
Great story, but why do people like being licked in the face by a dog?
And just for the record, all the dogs I’ve ever known have counted to four whenever I put three dog biscuts in my pocket.