Tiny dog saves 1-year-old from rattlesnake

Masonville, Colorado – Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners’ one-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.

Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents’ northern Colorado backyard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Zoey, weighing 2.3 kg. jumped in the way and took the bites.

“She got in between Booker and the snake, and that’s when I heard her yipe,” said Monty Long, the boy’s grandfather said on Thursday.

The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive the snake bites she suffered earlier this month. Now she prances about.

“These little bitty dogs, they just don’t really get credit,” Booker’s grandma told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald. AP

Source: Bangkok Post – Thailand, 24-7-2007
Collected by Antoni P. Uni, Thailand 22-8-2007