Pawsitive News: Detroit Rescue Dog Saves Baby Girl By ‘Running Back Into’ Blazing House

[Sugar Cookie]

A Detroit mom says the street dog she adopted saved her baby daughter’s life — dashing into their blazing family home to make sure firefighters could find the tot in her playpen.

Mom of four Janet Kelley, 40, said Blue — whom she adopted 2 years ago from Detroit Dog Rescue — proved way more than a good boy when thick, black smoke overwhelmed everyone in her two-family building.

“He went running back into the house because he knew Chantal, my youngest, was in her playpen,” Kelley told Fox 2 of the heroic hound.

“The firefighters had to chase him up — and once they got up there, they realized what was going on,” the relieved mom said of Blue leading them to her still-trapped 1-year-old daughter.

Kelley told the Detroit Free Press that her real-life Lassie — a mix of a pit bull and a Labrador who spent his first year living on the street — is “very protective over all of us.”

“He also loves his best friend Smokey, the family cat,” she said, seemingly without noting the cruel irony of her other surviving pet’s name.

The family “lost everything,” including their home, they said in an online fundraiser that by Wednesday had raised more than $88,000.

Kelley said that before donations allowed her to get a hotel room, she initially slept with her family in her van because “no dogs are allowed at a shelter.”

“And I refuse to leave Blue because God knows where my family would be without him,” she told Fox 2.

Detroit rescue dog saves baby girl by ‘running back into’ blazing house

Hero hound Blue “went running back into the house” and led firefighters to his family’s 1-year-old baby in her playpen, owner Janet Kelley said.

nypost.com

 

[Ella Mayo]

Sorry, but I did a few minutes of every search term(s) I could think of, to try to find an appropriate article or section about pets being endearing, to append this vid of a dog being a housekeeper:

 

[cubby]

I had an Aussie, Sarge, for 15 years, and they are just that smart. You can train them to do anything and fairly quickly too. I do love me an Aussie.