goatee
07-26-05, 07:12 PM
If this has been posted before perhaps a mod can delete this thread. I just heard the story on Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story" on the radio and sometimes his stuff is kinda old.
Talking for the Animals - Bob Kerridge
DIAL ‘M’ FOR MURDOCH
When Michelle Trainor and her husband Lee decided their lives needed to be enlivened with the addition of a dog, they came to the Auckland SPCA to make their selection. What they chose turned out to be a super hero.
In one of the puppy modules amongst a pack of puppies, one with curled ears described as a Blue Heeler cross, kept breaking free from the rest to catch the attention of Lee. It worked a treat - Lee was convinced that was the dog for them and so 9 week old ‘Murdoch’, once a lost little puppy in a caravan park, found a home at last.
A few months later Michelle went walking with Murdoch and her other dog ‘Grubby’ when, strolling beside a bank, the playful Murdoch gave Grubby a gentle nudge and he disappeared. Michelle went over to the edge to see if he was alright but the bank, 50 metres high, gave way and she fell to the bottom, impaled by a branch which penetrated her chest.
This was no place to be stuck with only her two dogs for company and with serious injuries to contend with. Grubby sensed that all was not well and stayed by her side continuously at the bottom of the bank, keeping her warm and giving her strength as she lay in the rain, semi conscious and in shock.
Hours went by and eventually halfway up the bank her cellphone, which had fallen from her grasp, began to ring. With panic in her voice she ordered Murdoch to “go and get the phone, get the phone, find the phone, find the phone”. Michelle later confided that it was probably the panic in her that motivated Murdoch to perform his remarkable feat.
He scrambled up the bank to retrieve the phone. “Blow me down” recalled Michelle, “he came trotting back with the cellphone in his mouth … tail straight up in the air (as if to say look at me, look at me) with the bloody cellphone in his mouth. I just couldn’t believe it. I heard him snuffling around but I didn’t think he would bring it back”.
Michelle used the phone to call Lee, her already concerned husband. “I’ve been here for four hours, come and get me now” but at 9pm in the dark, and down a bank, how was he to find her?
Once again it was Murdoch to the rescue when, to the calls of her husband, “he went ripping up there, went running to him and brought him down to where I was”. Finally with the help of the Kaukapakapa volunteer fire brigade Michelle was retrieved and taken to hospital leaving behind one relieved husband and two very clever dogs.
But it was Murdoch, the once lost little puppy, with his new-found ability to retrieve cellphones who really saved the day proving yet again that SPCA dogs are really very special creatures!
Talking for the Animals - Bob Kerridge
DIAL ‘M’ FOR MURDOCH
When Michelle Trainor and her husband Lee decided their lives needed to be enlivened with the addition of a dog, they came to the Auckland SPCA to make their selection. What they chose turned out to be a super hero.
In one of the puppy modules amongst a pack of puppies, one with curled ears described as a Blue Heeler cross, kept breaking free from the rest to catch the attention of Lee. It worked a treat - Lee was convinced that was the dog for them and so 9 week old ‘Murdoch’, once a lost little puppy in a caravan park, found a home at last.
A few months later Michelle went walking with Murdoch and her other dog ‘Grubby’ when, strolling beside a bank, the playful Murdoch gave Grubby a gentle nudge and he disappeared. Michelle went over to the edge to see if he was alright but the bank, 50 metres high, gave way and she fell to the bottom, impaled by a branch which penetrated her chest.
This was no place to be stuck with only her two dogs for company and with serious injuries to contend with. Grubby sensed that all was not well and stayed by her side continuously at the bottom of the bank, keeping her warm and giving her strength as she lay in the rain, semi conscious and in shock.
Hours went by and eventually halfway up the bank her cellphone, which had fallen from her grasp, began to ring. With panic in her voice she ordered Murdoch to “go and get the phone, get the phone, find the phone, find the phone”. Michelle later confided that it was probably the panic in her that motivated Murdoch to perform his remarkable feat.
He scrambled up the bank to retrieve the phone. “Blow me down” recalled Michelle, “he came trotting back with the cellphone in his mouth … tail straight up in the air (as if to say look at me, look at me) with the bloody cellphone in his mouth. I just couldn’t believe it. I heard him snuffling around but I didn’t think he would bring it back”.
Michelle used the phone to call Lee, her already concerned husband. “I’ve been here for four hours, come and get me now” but at 9pm in the dark, and down a bank, how was he to find her?
Once again it was Murdoch to the rescue when, to the calls of her husband, “he went ripping up there, went running to him and brought him down to where I was”. Finally with the help of the Kaukapakapa volunteer fire brigade Michelle was retrieved and taken to hospital leaving behind one relieved husband and two very clever dogs.
But it was Murdoch, the once lost little puppy, with his new-found ability to retrieve cellphones who really saved the day proving yet again that SPCA dogs are really very special creatures!