Dog Saves Owner, Dies Trying to Save Cat
After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying to help the cat still in the house.
After a disabled woman's cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying to help the cat still in the house.
Jamie Hanson said the 13-year-old dog named Jesse brought the phone so she could call 911 and also brought her artificial leg.
"She got me outside and then she heard the cat upstairs and she went up there to get the cat and she wouldn't come back," Hanson, 49, said Monday at Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center where she was treated for her injuries.
She received third-degree burns to an arm in the fire Sunday night at her home in the town of Rhine south of Elkhart Lake, the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department said, adding that both pets died in the fire.
Hanson, who lost a leg in a car crash three years ago, said she was on the couch watching TV when the cat "jumped onto a table that had a candle on it and tipped it over and lighted the artificial plants on fire."
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