Chihauhau saves child from rattlesnake

[hagansp]

[IMGL]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ww/news/2007/07/23/huabig.jpg[/IMGL] MASONVILLE, Colo. - 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.

[ashley832]

Aww. Thats really sweet. Good thing the dog was there! And I'm glad the dog is ok!

Ashley=)

[Shayne1911]

I wonder how dogs always know when to do stuff like this. You never think your dog would do something like that until it actually happens. I'm glad the dog is ok! And the little boy.

[chljoe]

I guess this just furthers the conclusion you can't judge a book by its cover. These dogs are so jumpy they look like they would have a heart attack if you cracked a loud fart, but here we have one that jumps in front of rattlesnakes.

[doniceage]

Awesome story. Of course each dog would do something different so let just say this KID WAS BEING WATCHED. Of course it was by a LITTLE DOG. Glad it survived as that kid better be giving it some serious TLC when he gains a few years.

DON