Heroic Dog Leads the Perfect Stranger to Its Unconscious Owners, Likely Saving Lives

Heroic Dog Leads the Perfect Stranger to Its Unconscious Owners, Likely Saving Lives


A dog may have saved the lives of a couple, who apparently had overdosed, when it showed up at nearby dog park and convinced — of all people — a recovering drug addict to follow it back to an encampment where its owners lay unconscious.

Gary Thynes said he was exercising his own dog at a park in Pittsburgh’s North Shore neighborhood last week when another dog approached him.

“He would come just close enough for me to be out of arm’s reach, and then he would bark, turn around, run a few steps, turn around, bark again,” Thynes told ABC affiliate WTAE. “And it felt like he was trying to get my attention. And I got this overwhelming feeling that he wanted

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