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A bad-ass mad dog chihuahua took down a rattler this past weekend while protecting a 1 year-old toddler from being struck by the venomous coiler. It was the child’s grandparents pet dog Zoey that had the fighting heart of a pit bull to sacrifice itself for the kids welfare. This from AP:
Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents’ northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Five-pound Zoey 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.
The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive. Now she prances about.
“These little bitty dogs, they just don’t really get credit,” Booker’s grandma Denise Long told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald. [SOURCE]
Uh, yeah, can you say ‘child protection agency’? The G-parents have to work on their guardian skills, I’d say. Small child, “splashing his hands” in a polluted birdbath with bird shit all in it. Serpents lurking, nobody watching? Not to rain on the ‘fuzzy dog savior story’, but G-parents just very well may be ready for assisted living.
