# A sad but touching tale for dog and cat lovers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-but-touching-tale-for-dog-and-cat-lovers/376927 "2006-10-18T13:06:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-but-touching-tale-for-dog-and-cat-lovers/376927/1 "2006-10-18T13:06:12Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/hero.dog.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/hero.dog.ap/index.html) > [@](#): > > ELKHART LAKE, Wisconsin (AP) – After a disabled woman’s cat started a house fire, her specially trained dog came to the rescue, then died trying unsuccessfully to rescue the cat. > > Jamie Hanson said her 13-year-old dog Jesse brought her artificial leg and a phone she used to call 911. > > “She got me outside and then she heard the cat upstairs and she went up there to get the cat, and she wouldn’t come back to me,” Hanson, 49, said at a news conference Monday at Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center, where she was being treated for her injuries. (I quoted nearly half the article - mods is that too much for fair use?) ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-but-touching-tale-for-dog-and-cat-lovers/376927/2 "2006-10-18T13:47:07Z")
Man, that’s so sad. Poor brave doggy. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sad-but-touching-tale-for-dog-and-cat-lovers/376927/3 "2006-10-18T17:26:33Z")
Well, that’s one Good Dog.