Smart Dog, Lucky Owner

Pam Davis, one of our Southeastern Greyhound Adoption and Greyhound Club members down in Florida and the main person responsible for getting us dogs to be adopted out, posted this to our group message board yesterday:

"A couple of years ago, Greyhound Crossroads asked us for a BIG male and he didn't have to be cat tolerant. We sent them a dog named "Get Noticed". His adopter, Nancy McPhee, named him Stryker.

Today, I got this message from Joanne:

One of your dog's saved someone's life. Nancy McPhee adopted Get Noticed now Stryker from us. He was a special order that you picked out for her from her description of what she wanted. The other night he woke her up about midnight and whined and poked her with his nose. She though he needed to go out even though he had just been out an hour and a half before. She got up and took him out. He didn't need to go and kept whining and bothering her and wouldn't let her go back to sleep. He never does that. Finally she realized her heart was beating VERY fast and strangely- she has had heart problems before. Her husband raced her to the emergency room. They had to stop her heart and restart it and I think shocked her heart at least once. Sounded like she barely got there in time. Stryker definitely saved her life by not letting her go back to sleep:)

How cool is that???"

Indeed - how cool IS that? Sometimes our dogs are smarter than us.