Meet 5 Hero Pets
These heroic animals saved lives. Read their amazing stories.
By Joanna Powell from Reader's Digest | August 2009
Photographed by Tamara Reynolds
Willie, the Quaker parrot, rescued two-year-old Hannah Kuusk of Denver, Colorado, who was choking on a piece of food.
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Photographed by Tamara Reynolds
Sunny Boy, the palomino quarter horse, protected teenager Chloe-Jeane Wendell of Vivian, Louisiana, from an out-of-control pit bull.
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Photographed by Tamara Reynolds
When Ron Gillette of Waukesha, Wisconsin, fell into a diabetic coma, his dog, Oscar, yowled until Gillette's wife awoke and called 911.
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Winnie, the 14-year-old domestic shorthaired cat, saved her New Castle, Indiana, family from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Courtesy Mary Lane
ChiChi, the Chihuahua mix, raised a ruckus when two elderly women struggled to survive in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Outer Banks.
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