A brag of another sort!
Yesterday, I was in town, Yvon home here working on some client photos. His office companion was our tri boy, Mark, "Ch Myrtlehill's Charismatic".
Mark is a Paper Dragon grandson and like all of that tribe, is bright, terribly EARNEST and a real companion.
Yvon noticed he was fussing...wouldn't settle, was antsy. He told him to settle down but in a few moments Mark was up, pacing and 'wuffing' softly. He kept going to the same side of the room, one end of the long office, with a neighbour next door, a few hundred feet over.
Finally, Yvon (following the "Timmy's down the well" instinct) took Mark and went outside to see what, if anything, was up.
No sooner was he out the side door than he heard what Mark had heard all along: a woman's weak voice, calling, crying for help.
It was our 91-year-old neighbour who had fallen on some porch steps. She had a Medic Alert, which for some reason hadn't gone off and she had dropped her cell phone.
Mark and Yvon rushed to the scene. Well, Mark barked importantly and Yvon called 911, offered comfort and first aid. Ida kept saying, "GOOD dog Mark, GOOD boy!", when Yvon had explained to her how and why he had found her. Mark stayed close to her. Yvon put him up when the ambulance arrived.
Ida is in hospital with three cracked cervical vertebrae and cracked ribs.
We had been planning on going out for dinner when I arrived home and Ida lives alone. Imagine if Mark hadn't gotten Yvon's attention how long might it have been. Probably 'til next day when a family member came to check on her.
No sooner was he out the side door than he heard what Mark had heard all along: a woman's weak voice, calling, crying for help.
It was our 91-year-old neighbour who had fallen on some porch steps. She had a Medic Alert, which for some reason hadn't gone off and she had dropped her cell phone.
Mark and Yvon rushed to the scene. Well, Mark barked importantly and Yvon called 911, offered comfort and first aid. Ida kept saying, "GOOD dog Mark, GOOD boy!", when Yvon had explained to her how and why he had found her. Mark stayed close to her. Yvon put him up when the ambulance arrived.
Ida is in hospital with three cracked cervical vertebrae and cracked ribs.
We had been planning on going out for dinner when I arrived home and Ida lives alone. Imagine if Mark hadn't gotten Yvon's attention how long might it have been. Probably 'til next day when a family member came to check on her.
Funny dogs, these ...they seem so flighty, flippant and carefree yet, at deep core, they are still the family dog, the farm hand and useful companion.
GOOD boy, Mark!!
GOOD boy, Mark!!
