18 animal heroes who risked themselves to save human lives

If you have a pet, you probably can’t imagine your life without your furry friend. What’s more, there are people who wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for their beloved pets. Dogs, cats and even wild animals became superheroes to save human beings, who will be forever grateful.

O awesome.club selected a series of stories about animals that acted as guardian angels. We recommend having some tissues on hand; it will be very exciting.

When a fire started in the neighboring house and went directly to theirs, Sasha, a pit bull, started barking desperately to wake her owners in the middle of the night. So the dog pulled the baby out of the house by her diaper. The mother took the two to a safe place. And, as she later said of her beloved pit bull: “She was always part of the family. Now, she deserves a steak.” During a family trip to India, a man remembers that they were all walking in a part of the mountain where there were many monkeys. They were trying to get food for the family when, suddenly, their 7-year-old cousin, who was leaning over the railing of the bridge, started to lose his balance and was about to fall. One of the monkeys grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him back, saving his life. Of course, after that, the monkeys got a lot of sandwiches. A man was playing video games when his six-month-old dog started growling. At first, he didn’t pay much attention, until the dog put a paw in his hands and tried to take control. When he realized what was happening, he found his wife in the bathroom having a hypoglycemic attack. After that event, the man said that his dog is an “incredibly intelligent animal. I wish everyone could have a pet like him, but he’s all mine.”

In the middle of the night, four burglars entered a home in the US and one of them shot the owner. His spunky dog, Lefty, instinctively lunged in front of him to shield him from the shot. After the thieves left, she was transferred to the vet, where doctors had to amputate her right paw. The hospital asked for donations for the heroine dog and covered 100% of the expenses! A woman was saved by her intelligent feline when she was little and remembers this story with gratitude. One night, her Persian cat suddenly started acting strangely, meowing and looking into the girl’s room. The mother went into her daughter’s room to see what was going on and found that she was having an asthma attack in her sleep. The little girl was immediately taken to the hospital and the cat was certainly hailed as a hero. This man recalls that one day, as he was walking his dog and was about to cross the street, the dog abruptly pulled him back. The owner thought he was just misbehaving, but just a second later he saw a van that drove up the sidewalk at 100 kilometers per hour, in a school area where the permitted speed is 30 kilometers per hour. His beloved dog saved his life by just a few seconds.

Yolanda is a guide dog who saved her blind owner by dialing 911 and calling the police when her house was on fire. The woman recalls yelling “danger,” which was the dog’s emergency alert, and then hearing the beep of the dog’s phone buttons. “Oh my God, she called the police,” she said. But this isn’t the first time Yolanda has done this: years ago, when her owner fell and was knocked unconscious, the dog also called the police. A child, who is now a man, remembers the story of walking towards a very venomous snake that was coiled and hissing at him. His brave doberman ran in front of him and headbutted him so that he stayed behind, protecting him from the dangerous snake. His loud barking caught the attention of the boy’s mother, who arrived and picked him up seconds later. A man tells the story his parents told him about how their dog saved his life during a family trip in the mountains. While walking towards a waterfall, the boy tripped and started to slip. His affectionate dog grabbed the boy by his coat and pulled him back before he fell into a river with a strong current. After that, the boy and the dog became best friends.

Toby was just two years old when he suddenly saw his beloved owner choking on a piece of apple he had just bitten into. To the woman’s surprise, the dog jumped on her chest and began performing a pseudo-version of the Heimlich maneuver, without even having trained for it. As a result, the piece of apple was expelled, freeing up the airway so she could breathe. “Once I started breathing again, he licked my face…” said the owner. When a woman tried to move a 600 kg cow and her calf to a certain area of ​​her farm, the animal became enraged and attacked her in an attempt to protect her calf. The helpless woman reported that all she could see was the cow’s large body and that she was about to be crushed as it was impossible to escape. Her faithful horse Kerry Gold came running in, kicking the cow, which started backing up, and the woman scrambled to safety. A boy in Canada was out in the field, walking his horse Sunny, when suddenly the animal, which was calm and well behaved, began to act strangely. Sunny hit the boy with her head and ran into the bush. When she got out of there, she was chasing a group of five hungry coyotes. The boy, who is now an adult, remembers that the horse chased the predators for a long time, and then returned to him.

When a young man with bipolar disorder jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, he found himself being helped by a sea lion. In a statement, he said: “Something was brushing against my legs… I thought it was a shark. He would swim in circles under me and push me.” Later, a man sent him an email saying that he had seen everything and that his rescuer had been a sea lion, he even had pictures of him. It was very difficult for him to look at the photo, so he decided not to make it public. One afternoon, while a mother and her son were relaxing in the backyard on a swing, one of their two dogs, Zack and Jazzie, began demanding that everyone leave. The dog became more and more demanding, so they finally followed, and once they were about 150 feet from the house, they heard a huge noise. They discovered that a giant branch from one of the trees broke and completely destroyed the swing. All were saved that day.

A huge and very quiet Saint Bernard dog named Nana saved an 18-month-old girl from being kidnapped. The family lived in the countryside. The little girl was playing outside with her two older sisters and their dog when her mother heard Nana barking furiously. She ran outside and saw the dog grabbing her daughter by the diaper and pulling her out of a stranger’s car that had stopped, and trying to kidnap her. The mother put the other girls in the house and closed the doors while the man fled.

Frida is a rescue dog, or at least she was, as she recently retired. She was part of Mexico’s rescue team during the devastating earthquakes of 2017. The dog located and helped the team save more than 50 people during her career. She was even awarded for your service🇧🇷 He also participated in rescue missions in Haiti in 2010, Guatemala in 2012 and Ecuador in 2016. Every night, the dog in this story used to sleep in his kennel, but that night he refused to go inside. His owner, an elderly woman, decided not to go to bed and stay with him for a while to see what happened. Suddenly, she started to feel strange. She immediately realized she was having a heart attack and called 911. If the dog hadn’t kept her awake that day, she would have fallen asleep and died in bed. Dan adopted a dog named Blox from a shelter. One night, Dan’s younger brother was in the basement and fell asleep with a candle burning next to him. The house caught fire while the two brothers slept. Blox ran to Dan’s room, jumped on the bed and barked desperately. Dan saw the fire and ran out of the house. Blox remained at the top of the basement stairs barking non-stop so that his brother, who was still trapped there, would know where the exit was. Everyone was saved!

All these stories can renew your hope in the world. How does your pet show its love and affection for you? Do you know animal heroes like the ones in this collection? Share your stories and photos in the comments!