Chihuahua Saves Baby From Rattlesnake

[knny187]

Chihuahua Saves Baby From Rattlesnake
AP
Posted: 2007-07-23 18:09:35

MASONVILLE, Colo. (July 23) - Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners' 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.


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.

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I saw that this morning.  Was surprised the lil guy survived!!   

   "These little bitty dogs, they just don't really get credit,"    

[Vet]

The dog did a great job and deserves all of the credit, but I have to wonder what really happened....  rattle snakes don't just slither up, rattle, and strike.  Something had to provoke that snake---be it the kid or the dog. 

Anyway, good job for a little dog.