Sniffle XXII
Even the dogs!
Courier-Mail - Rescued terrier returns favour
JUST a few months after being rescued near death from an industrial bin, hero pooch Jerry has saved a life of his own.
The tiny fox terrier cross recently stood between two-year-old Reuben Wright and a deadly brown snake in the garden of the family’s property at Goondiwindi, 360km west of Brisbane. Mum Patricia Wright saw the stand-off when she raced outside after hearing her younger boy crying.
“I came out and I saw Jerry standing between Reuben and an adult brown snake,” she said.
“We get a lot of them around here and I’ve been bitten by one myself. I don’t know if a two-year-old would survive a bite but Jerry fought it off and it went off under the garage.”
Awww!
Curtsy to Brett McS, who’s helping us start the day off right.
July 31st, 2006 at 11:17 am
Doesn’t Australia allowed concealed Mongooses? I’d keep a Mongoose on the nightstand if I lived near the deadly Brown Snake.
July 31st, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I’d keep one in my shirt pocket.
July 31st, 2006 at 7:07 pm
In your shirt pocket? Are you thinking about a Saturday Night Mongoose? One of the little guys? I’d hate to encourage that. Many Mongoose lovers fall into the trap of small and cute, but for my money nothing sez “Begone Deadly Brown Snake!” doubled barreled matched pair of Mongeese.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:16 am
Dunno about mongeese, but I’d say Jerry had been watching “Skippy the Bush Kangaroo” quite carefully.
August 1st, 2006 at 6:08 am
Well, there is another of these stories about a real life, tame, Bush Kangaroo (not a pet) from a couple of years ago. Also in Queensland. The kangaroo raised the alarm to the family she was friends with, when the farmer-husband was trapped under his tractor after it overturned. Then she hopped back to the farmer and stayed with him until the rescuers came. A real-life Skippy episode.
I’d always assumed that Kangaroos were almost completely stupid. Skippy was certainly no Inspector Rex. So I was very surprised when I saw this news item.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:03 am
Screw the mongoose, I’m getting a kangaroo. You’re only going to get killed by creepy crawlies in Australia, but you can get trapped under a tractor anywhere.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:49 pm
If you’re going to get trapped under a tractor or fall into a well, or maybe break an ankle in a cliff fall, you don’t want a ‘Roo you want a Lassie Dawg.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Of course a brace of Sawed-off Dobies strapped to your leg can handle “The Deadly Brown Snake” as well as assorted falling and crushing incidents.
/G Larson
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:09 am
Then again, if it’s a cliff fall at the edge of the ocean, there’s a lot to be said for being a chum of Flipper the dolphin.
Perhaps that could be the next TV series: “Monty the Mongoose”? One would pitch it as Skippy meets the deadly browns. And takes direct action, non of this hopping back and forth and looking winsome nonsense.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:47 am
I’ve got it!
“Mongeese on a Plane”!
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:02 am
Pfffff
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:09 am
Oh well. I thought that was funny. Sequel to SoaP. The mammals strike back. The potential’s humongoose.
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:39 am
No it was funny. Very funny.
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:40 am
That’s the point, I can never tell. If I’d been fitted with a quality control programme I’d have written more.