Here's A Nice Feelgood Story For A Sunday Morning!

[icyfroth]

Dog saves owner's life

Cici, a black and white border collie mix was frantically running along a busy road, dragging her leash behind, when she was spotted by caring driver, Jefferson Fox.

Fox told US TV station KFVS Heartland News, "I thought [she] was going to get hit, so I turned in at Shawnee and parked my car, ran down this embankment and found the dog at the next couple of houses."

The perceptive driver chased after the dog in hopes of assuring her safety but when she kept evading capture and led Fox to a house he made a realization.

“The dog was very purposeful in its efforts to get me to come back to the house and I’m sure that it was out in the road trying to find someone,” said Fox.

Eventually Cici’s mission became clear to Fox who said, "We came down the side of the building and turned this corner. The garage door was standing open and [the owner] was laying in the floor, in front of her front door. She was bleeding from her chin and her knees."

Cici’s elderly owner, a woman in her 70’s, was injured and shaking from the cold on her garage floor.

Fox arrived around 9:30 a.m. and was informed by the elderly woman that she had fallen around 5:30 a.m. Curled up to her owner and keeping her warm was Honey, another dog with a similar red leash to Cici’s.

Fox called 911 and emergency services took the owner to the hospital where she stayed for another night and is doing well.

A neighbor is now caring for both dogs and Fox offered lasting advice, "You should always pay attention to what's going on around you, because if I hadn't noticed the dog I would never have found the lady."

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And is the dog on the tuckerbox a boy or a girl?

[cq_tech]

"And is the dog on the tuckerbox a boy or a girl?"

I've no idea Icy, but if it's anything like the statue of the bull on the median strip as you drive into Rockhampton from the south, its gender changes quite frequently, thanks to the yobbos who, in the wee hours, make off with a certain rather obvious portion of the bull's anatomy.

This has become such a frequent occurrence that the anatomical parts in question are no longer cast as a part of the bull, but are now bolted on separately so that when they are stolen, it's only a 5-minute job to bolt on a new pair. 🙂

[icyfroth]

Hi cq 🙂

[cq_tech]

Hi Icy. Nice dog story BTW, and I've read of similar things before as well.

The was an old fellow living alone in a one-bedroom flat above a shop in Leichhardt a couple of years ago and one night while in bed, he suffered a stroke and was unable to move or call for help.

It was four days before he was found, and amazingly, he was still alive, thanks to the intelligence of his little lap dog (breed unknown) who continually saturated a hand towel in the toilet bowl and brought it to his master to extract the moisture, which kept him alive long enough for assistance to arrive.

Incidentally, have you yet determined the gender of the Gundagai tucker-box dog yet? My theory is that it's a male, as naming a song "The B!tch From Gundagai" doesn't quite have the same ring to it IMO. 🙂

[icyfroth]

I always thought the dog on the tuckerbox to be based on a certain dog, like Red Dog, but apparently not.

It's based on the poem by an otherwise unknown writer going by the name of Bowyang Yorke:

from Wikipedia:

The statue was inspired by a bullock driver's poem, Bullocky Bill, which celebrates the life of an allegorical driver's dog that loyally guarded the man's tuckerbox (Australian slang for lunch box) until death.

A dog monument had been first erected at a site nine miles from Gundagai in 1926.[2]

Bullocky Bill was written by an otherwise unknown poet who used the pen name "Bowyang Yorke" and first printed in 1857. A later poem by Jack Moses drew on the Bowyang Yorke poem for inspiration and was published in the 1920s.[3]

"One version of the dog's role in pioneering times is that the dog was guarding its master's tuckerbox and other possessions while he sought help from being bogged at a river crossing. The master, a bullocky or driver of a bullock team, never returns but the dog continues to guard the tuckerbox until its death"

There's no reference anywhere (that I can see) to whether it's a dog or a **bleep**.

[icyfroth]

lol at bleep

[polocross58]

Yes, a great story

Nice man -- wish we had more of him

Beautiful dog

Beautiful dogs - thank you for sharing our world

[spotweldersfriend]

I'll be stopping there in early March-nice fruitshop there and we can avoid Maccas etc at the nearby roadhouse-and I'll check if it has any yarbles:-)

[icyfroth]

I haven't been down that way for at least 30 years.

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

I haven't been down that way for at least 30 years.

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Last time I remember was in the early 80s, I was travelling in the car with my brother and his family, wife and 2 daughters. We bought hamburgers, traditional aussie hamburgers, with beetroot at the roadhouse there.

My little niece was carsick a bit later and there was regurgitated beetroot all over the backseat!

My brother was so cross with me 'cos I bought it for her against his advice!

Little niece is all growed up now with teenage kiddies of her own.