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Grandmother Hails Lifesaving Dog

Tue, 17 Feb 2009

A woman has lauded a dog who helped to save her dying husband’s life. The five year old Patterdale terrier woke 78 year old Sonia Rampley in the middle of the night after her 83 year old husband, Roy, had suffered a stroke and fallen out of bed. The pet animal, Tia, doesn’t even belong to the couple, who were looking after her and another dog for two weeks as part of a local dog sitting scheme, ‘Barking Mad’.

Mrs Rampley said, ‘It must have been about 2.10am and I was lying in bed when Tia started scratching my hand. I told her to go back to sleep, but she would not stop. She obviously wasn't getting enough of a reaction with her paw so she got her claws out and I had blood and scratch marks on my hand, she was so determined to wake me up.

Mrs Rampley added, ‘I went back upstairs to the bedroom and turned the light on and my husband was lying on the floor. Roy had obviously been there for a couple of hours and was freezing cold as we don't have the heating on in our bedroom. He was paralysed down one side, he just couldn't speak or do anything. If it hadn't been for Tia I wouldn't have found him until the morning when it might have been too late.'
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