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Pit bull rescues owner by pulling her from train tracks

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  1. lue03

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    Its about time we hear something good about a pit bull.

    A pit bull that made a life-saving rescue by pulling her owner out of the path of an oncoming freight train now needs a helping hand herself.

    Lilly, an 8-year-old pit bull, was with her owner when the woman fell unconscious on train tracks in Shirley, Mass., on May 3, according to ABC affiliate WCVB in Boston.

    Lilly managed to drag her owner, Christine Spain, off the tracks just before the train rumbled through. The conductor was unable to stop the locomotive in time, and the wheels wound up slicing through the dog’s right foot, fracturing her pelvis and causing other internal injuries, MyFoxBoston.com reported.

    Spain was uninjured.

    “She saved my mom’s life,” her son, David Lanteigne, a Boston police officer, told WCVB.

    He said he rescued Lilly from a shelter several years ago and gave her to his mother as a way to cope with her alcoholism. Spain had relapsed prior to the incident, and she was arrested at the scene on charges of obstruction and danger on a railroad track, ABCNews.com reported Wednesday.

    The dog is now recovering at an animal medical center, but her family needs help paying for treatments. The center is working to collect donations.

    A vet told reporters he expects the dog to recover following a front-limb amputation.

    “Lilly’s recovery from this horrific ordeal is my top priority right now and I’ll do everything possible to get her back home to us,” Lanteigne said to WCVB.



    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...saving-rescue-article-1.1075467#ixzz1uZAoiyTH
     
    #1 lue03, May 11, 2012
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    So let me get this straight: the pit bull knocks the owner out, places her on the train tracks with no one around, then "saves" the owner from the train so people can see. It's a conspiracy theory. Put the dog down.
     
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    If it was a conspiracy the dog would of put a cat down after he knocked the owner out and taken a picture for the world to see.
     
    #3 lue03, May 11, 2012
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    Possibly. But that does nothing to help the cause of the pit bull in particular. Many people don't like cats (full grown, how can you not like kittens?) as it is, so I think that the pit bull would have his people's own interests in mind to better the view of pit bulls in the eyes of others. This dog is on the fast track to becoming President!
     
    #4 jank1434, May 11, 2012
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    That is one smart dog worth saving...but that owner doesn't deserve that dog. That owner should have died and the dog should have took off.

    But, 8 years old on three legs...don't see how dog will be getting around in a few years. It may make more sense to put the dog down...which probably doesn't make sense coming from me trying to save an 11 year old Ridgeback with cancer and boy how that worked out something awful for me.
     
    #5 Surfguy, May 11, 2012
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    Pitbull : " I can't maul this helpless victim in the middle of these train tracks! What if a train comes while I'm busy ripping out her thoat! I'm just gonna move her off the tracks and.. WHOAAAAAA AAWWW GRRRRRR!!!!!!!"
     
    #6 Blurr#7, May 11, 2012
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    Damn, he really is everywhere.

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    #7 kevC, May 11, 2012
  8. Sajan

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    take time out of your day to learn some grammar.

    WOULD HAVE (would've). not would of.
     
    #8 Sajan, May 11, 2012
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    Dogs are evolving. They are extremely smart.
     
    #9 what, May 11, 2012
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    So, the owner passed out drunk on the train tracks?
     
    #10 Cannonball, May 11, 2012
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    I've never had a problem with Pitbulls, but what is the deal with people that have no business owning dogs always getting Pits.
     
    #11 CCorn, May 11, 2012
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