[pyrnet] Pyr Hero saves sheep

[Shirley McGreal <smcgreal@ippl.org>]

Guard dog helps save sheep

06:37 AM CST on Thursday, January 26,  2006

Associated Press



CARNATION, Wash. - A Great  Pyrenees guard dog herded more than a dozen sheep
to safety after a barn caught  fire.

Diane Pagel and her husband, Jeff Freeman, initially thought they  had lost
as many as 20 prized sheep when the blaze broke out last week.

Then they discovered all but six sheep had been herded to safety by  Kodiak,
their guard dog.

"Sheep will go to where it is safe, and for  them that was the barn, but
apparently Kodiak got them out," Pagel said. "He was  the last one 
out of the barn
because hair has been burned on his back legs and  back."

The barn was filled with smoke and flames when firefighters  arrived,
Eastside Fire and Rescue Chief Lee A. Soptich said. Fire crews had 
to  go more than a
mile for water and struggled to cool a 500-gallon propane tank  outside the
barn and keep it from exploding.


Dr. Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman
International Primate Protection League
PO Box 766
Summerville, SC 29484, USA
Phone - 843-851-0688, Fax- 843-871-7988

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