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Girl’s Best Friend: Lab Saves 7-Year-Old In Likely Coyote Attack
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January 13, 2009
Girl’s Best Friend: Lab Saves 7-Year-Old In Likely Coyote Attack
From EastBayRI.com:
An animal that wildlife experts believe to be a coyote attacked a 7-year-old girl on Prudence Island on Dec. 30, grabbing her by the arm and dragging her toward the woods.
But the girl’s white American Labrador, named Kelly, fought the attacker off and saved her from injury.
According to what a Department of Environmental Management representative from the Fish and Wildlife division told Portsmouth police, this would be the first recorded coyote attack on a person in Rhode Island.
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Comments (12)
And yet animal rights activists keep claiming that nature is a Disney Movie!
i love coyte hunting
That's why my last two dogs have been Labs... Eighteen years and counting.
Oh yeah doc we've got three labs
i heard there was a middle school girl in my town a few years ago who was attacked by a dog but i guess it was right down the street and her lab heard and ended up saving her. there werea few different sides to the story but the point is the lab saved her
Good Dog! Have another cookie! Whatta good doggie!
I have a lab mix who is extremely loyal and attentive, she hears the slightest sound and if she feels anyone in my family is in trouble she reacts.
Great Dog to have to save that little girl
I have a lab mix who is extremely loyal and attentive, she hears the slightest sound and if she feels anyone in my family is in trouble she reacts.
Great Dog to have to save that little girl
That is an incredible story, where is the video camera when you need it?
I praise GOD for the health and well being of this little girl and her dog. A great story and one with a happy ending. The way the dog jumped in too fight off the Coyote, showed just how much she loved the little girl. I have always tought my children and grandchildrn to treat your pet with love and care, but disipline also and the pet would love and respect you always. We had a Austrilian Shepard for almost 18 years and she watched over our kids just like she was their mom. I taught her the words good dog and bad dog and with the tone of my voice she would know if she was being rewarded or if she had done something wrong. You raise a pet with love and they will give it back, even dying for you. It seems this wonderful dog was loved by this little girl and she was willing to do anything to save her from harm. Great story and great DOG!!
I lived in southern California before relocating to the Northwest 12 years ago, and we had a 39-lb mutt that was a part of the family. One afternoon, a lady approached me and said my dog was terrorizing the wild rabbits she fed regularly and she had considered calling the county's Animal Control officers. I listened patiently and told her that my dog is not walked off leash and I'd be pleased to introduce her to my dog so she could better identify it. A moment later she pointed, "There! Look there! He's doing it again!" I smiled and informed the lady, "Ma'am, that's not my dog...or anyone else's...it's a coyote. This was coyote habitat before this tract was built." She couldn't absorb that. "Well, what's it doing?" I shrugged, "Working for its dinner, Ma'am. They eat rabbits. I expect the coyotes are obliged to you for baiting the location for the rabbits; it makes their job easier." The woman was horrified. "Eat them? They eat my rabbits?" I nodded, "With gusto. You may learn that my dog is not quite as lean as those coyotes. She's fairly well nourished, but she's a scrappy creature and she'd probably give those coyotes a run for their money." She was aghast. "What am I to do?" I suggested she stop providing a feast for the rabbits and let nature take its course. The woman was appalled, but my dog was no longer a suspect. I appreciated the timing of the coyote which, much to the woman's dismay, caught a rabbit and trotted off with it in its jaws.
Add wolves to the picture and the coyotes suddenly look like playful pups. Come visit the Wyoming mountains for a week or so and you will see what I mean.
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And yet animal rights activists keep claiming that nature is a Disney Movie!
i love coyte hunting
That's why my last two dogs have been Labs... Eighteen years and counting.
Oh yeah doc we've got three labs
i heard there was a middle school girl in my town a few years ago who was attacked by a dog but i guess it was right down the street and her lab heard and ended up saving her. there werea few different sides to the story but the point is the lab saved her
Good Dog! Have another cookie! Whatta good doggie!
I have a lab mix who is extremely loyal and attentive, she hears the slightest sound and if she feels anyone in my family is in trouble she reacts.
Great Dog to have to save that little girl
I have a lab mix who is extremely loyal and attentive, she hears the slightest sound and if she feels anyone in my family is in trouble she reacts.
Great Dog to have to save that little girl
That is an incredible story, where is the video camera when you need it?
I praise GOD for the health and well being of this little girl and her dog. A great story and one with a happy ending. The way the dog jumped in too fight off the Coyote, showed just how much she loved the little girl. I have always tought my children and grandchildrn to treat your pet with love and care, but disipline also and the pet would love and respect you always. We had a Austrilian Shepard for almost 18 years and she watched over our kids just like she was their mom. I taught her the words good dog and bad dog and with the tone of my voice she would know if she was being rewarded or if she had done something wrong. You raise a pet with love and they will give it back, even dying for you. It seems this wonderful dog was loved by this little girl and she was willing to do anything to save her from harm. Great story and great DOG!!
I lived in southern California before relocating to the Northwest 12 years ago, and we had a 39-lb mutt that was a part of the family. One afternoon, a lady approached me and said my dog was terrorizing the wild rabbits she fed regularly and she had considered calling the county's Animal Control officers. I listened patiently and told her that my dog is not walked off leash and I'd be pleased to introduce her to my dog so she could better identify it. A moment later she pointed, "There! Look there! He's doing it again!" I smiled and informed the lady, "Ma'am, that's not my dog...or anyone else's...it's a coyote. This was coyote habitat before this tract was built." She couldn't absorb that. "Well, what's it doing?" I shrugged, "Working for its dinner, Ma'am. They eat rabbits. I expect the coyotes are obliged to you for baiting the location for the rabbits; it makes their job easier." The woman was horrified. "Eat them? They eat my rabbits?" I nodded, "With gusto. You may learn that my dog is not quite as lean as those coyotes. She's fairly well nourished, but she's a scrappy creature and she'd probably give those coyotes a run for their money." She was aghast. "What am I to do?" I suggested she stop providing a feast for the rabbits and let nature take its course. The woman was appalled, but my dog was no longer a suspect. I appreciated the timing of the coyote which, much to the woman's dismay, caught a rabbit and trotted off with it in its jaws.
Add wolves to the picture and the coyotes suddenly look like playful pups. Come visit the Wyoming mountains for a week or so and you will see what I mean.
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