Hero Pets.

Last summer Care2 brought you the story of a pit bull who saved his owner not once, but twice. Gloria Benton's husband John was leaving for work when Titan started acting strange and blocked the door, while barking and growling, which sent him back upstairs to check on his wife. John found Gloria had suffered an aneurism and had fallen and fractured her skull. It happened a second time when Titan woke John at 4:30 am to let him know that Gloria had fallen in the bathroom. Now comes another great story of a pit bull rescue. A pit bull saved his owner from a fire in her Long Island, New York home on May 3, barking to alert her of the flames on the other side of the house that would soon ...

According to KNSD-TV, a missing cat has been reunited with his owner after being lost for more than a decade. Bandit the cat went missing from Dante and Elizabeth Corso's Las Vegas home in 2000. Although they were saddened by their loss, the Corsos eventually moved on and relocated to Linda Vista in San Diego, Calif. Still, Bandit always remained in their thoughts. Recently, the Corsos received a phone call from a veterinarian in Las Vegas. They were not expecting the news they received. "They called Tuesday night, I ...

AVIGNON, France, March 06, 2013 (AFP) - A French woman's loyal German Shepherd dog saved her from committing suicide by knocking aside a rifle she tried to fire into her heart, local police said. The 63-year-old woman had walked into her garden in the southern town of Sorgues in the Vaucluse region, fired several test shots of a 22-calibre rifle and then turned the gun on her chest. "At the moment she pulled the trigger, her dog jumped on her and diverted the shot," a local police officer told AFP, adding that the dog ...

When True the Dachshund woke Katie Crosley early Sunday morning, she thought he just needed to be let out. But according to NBCNews, when Crosley opened the door to her Grady County cabin in Oklahoma, she faced a wall of flames. Although Crosley lost everything in her home, she was still thankful for her miracle dog. True is not your ordinary hero pet - he is blind, deaf and only has three legs. It has been a rough year so far for Katie Crosley. Her son, Jace, was born with a heart defect and spent weeks in NICU. "All of ...

Alex Leibowitz is alive today, thanks to his heroic dog, Louisa. According to The Algemeiner, Louisa alerted her owner of a rocket fired from Gaza that struck Leibowitz's apartment in Ashkelon, Israel. The coastal city, which is home to over 100,000 people, was struck hard over the weekend. On Sunday, November 18, Alex Leibowitz decided to stay home sick. His wife, Olga, was at work. Leibowitz said that his dog would not stop barking. "Louisa just kept nervously barking non-stop and I couldn't listen any longer, so I went back in the ...