HILLSBORO, Ohio — A southwest Ohio couple who adopted a Saint Bernard to save him say he saved their home from burglary a few hours later.
Rubert "Lee" Littler says he was taking Hercules outside Wednesday night when the 135-pound dog started growling, then charged after a man running out of their basement. The dog bit into the man's ankle as he climbed a fence and got away. Police say the home's phone and cable lines had been cut.
Lee and Elizabeth Littler brought the dog home from Highland County's pound less than seven hours earlier. The dog had been found, bloody and dehydrated, by hikers on Oct. 31.
The Littlers tell The Times-Gazette of Hillsboro () they wanted to keep him from being euthanized but now figure he's earned a permanent home. http://bit.ly/suYkUf:clap
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Rubert "Lee" Littler says he was taking Hercules outside Wednesday night when the 135-pound dog started growling, then charged after a man running out of their basement. The dog bit into the man's ankle as he climbed a fence and got away. Police say the home's phone and cable lines had been cut.
Lee and Elizabeth Littler brought the dog home from Highland County's pound less than seven hours earlier. The dog had been found, bloody and dehydrated, by hikers on Oct. 31.
The Littlers tell The Times-Gazette of Hillsboro () they wanted to keep him from being euthanized but now figure he's earned a permanent home. http://bit.ly/suYkUf:clap
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My dog was dumped off at a construction site that my older brother was working at and he hid her to keep her from going to the pound. We had her maybe a year or so when someone broke into our home while my mother was asleep inside. She tried and tried to wake mom up and she kept brushing her off. Finally she tried to soothe her by telling her "it's okay, girl, what's wrong?" The burglar heard that and took off running...he (or she, I reckon) had pried open the backdoor and was coming down the hallway to the master bedroom.
