Previously rescued dog rescues woman who had been buried for 3 days in snow

[brentspeak]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/24/snow.rescue/

Woman buried in snow for 3 days found alive

No one expected to find Donna Molnar alive.

Donna Molnar's body temperature was 30 degrees Fahrenheit when rescuers found her Monday.

Searchers had combed the brutal backcountry of rural Ontario for the housewife from the city of Hamilton, who had left her home three days earlier in the middle of a blizzard to grocery shop.

Alongside his search-and-rescue dog Ace, Ray Lau on Monday tramped through the thick, ice-covered brush of a farmer's field, not far from where Molnar's van had been found a day earlier.

He kept thinking: Negative-20 winds? This is a search for a body.

"Then, oh, all of a sudden, Ace bolted off," said Lau. "He stooped and looked down at the snow and just barked, barked, barked."

"There she was, there was Donna, her face was almost totally covered except for one eye staring back at me!" he said. "That was, 'Wow!' There was a thousand thoughts going through my head. It was over the top."

With one ungloved hand near her neck, Molnar, 55, mumbled and tried to scream as Lau yelled to other rescuers. Dressed in a leather coat, sweater, slacks and winter boots, Molnar was carefully extracted from a 3-foot-deep mound of snow that had apparently helped to insulate her.

SNIP

As for Ace, he's still awaiting his reward: a T-bone steak. It's the least that can be done for a dog who, in his own way, paid it forward.

"A while ago, Ace was rescued from a home where he didn't belong, and now he got to rescue someone. I can't describe the magnitude of that, what that means to me," Lau said.

"He's definitely getting his steak. I'm grocery shopping right now."

[baldguy]

1. Good dog!

[predfan]

2. Great Christmas story!!

[AnneD]

3. Best prayer I ever read.....

Dear Lord, help me become the person my dog thinks I am.

[baldguy]

5. Some of the best people I've ever met have been dogs.

[awoke_in_2003]

34. I am an atheist and don't believe in heaven...

but I like what Will Rogers said "If there are no dogs in heaven, I want to go where they did"

[rvablue]

13. That is the best! n/t

[TahitiNut]

16. Amen.

I brought this up a week or two ago ... that our dogs can see in us the people we can really be. It's a blessing.

[Doremus]

4. What a great story, thanks.

[frebrd]

6. K&R - Enjoy your steak, Ace! n/t

[sasquatch]

7. It's pitbull though, it was probably hoping it would get to eat her

:popcorn::D

[Muttocracy]

11. It's a Dutch Shepherd

They're often brindle colored, and are very similar to Belgian Malinois, the top police and SAR dogs.

[sasquatch]

14. I know I was just making a joke

[lunatica]

8. I love this story

O8) = Ace

[phusion]

9. jeezus, 30 degrees?

I'm amazed that this woman is still alive. Good job, Ace!

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. Celsius.

[TahitiNut]

17. Story: "Donna Molnar's body temperature was 30 degrees Fahrenheit..."

Amazing.

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. Dude! I saw that movie!

[dorkulon]

22. That just has to be an error.

I saw it too. A body temperature of 30 Fahrenheit just isn't survivable.

[TahitiNut]

27. I agree. Anything lower than 57°F just isn't survivable and 30°F is FREEZING.

Over 90% of the human body is water ... and the cells explode when the water is frozen. It's beyond mere frostbite if the body's core temperature is that cold.

[dorkulon]

32. Hey, how'd you type the little degrees symbol? /nt

[TahitiNut]

33. Alt-0186

All the MS-DOS key mappings for the system character set still apply.

For example ... º»¼½¾¿£¥¤§©®®

[LisaL]

28. Yea, that's below freezing. She'd be frozen solid.

[roguevalley]

10. dogs are my heroes. I love dogs.

[Muttocracy]

12. North American Dutch Shepherd Rescue:

http://www.dutchshepherdrescue.org/

I bet there are a few out there in shelters, who are called Shepherd mutts.

[ACTION BASTARD]

18. Proving once AGAIN, Dogs are superior to cats in every way imaginable.

That's right. I went there. Wanna fight about it?

[Uncle Joe]

19. I believe this a great thread, but cats have a good purpose as well and fill different needs.

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/prespets/4.html

[TahitiNut]

25. Ernie seems to have better taste than most cats.

:hide:

[elleng]

30. Too bad

we haven't seen this pic previously!

[CatWoman]

20. um

YEP!!!!!

[TahitiNut]

26. (Uh-oh.) The fur's gonna fly, now.

:rofl: :rofl:

:hide:


:loveya: :hug:

[CatWoman]

31. LOL

Merry Christmas, Doll :)

:loveya:

[TahitiNut]

23. (Shhhh....) There are a few deluded souls hereabouts who don't know that. (We humor them.)

:rofl:

[dorkulon]

24. Except slobber factor and pooping indoors.

There's hip-deep snow outside, so I'm pretty cool with not having to go out there every few hours so my pets can pee.

[Shardik]

29. My god, what a wonderful story!

I hadn't read this when I posted this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4714061 but they fit so nicely together. Rescue dogs are some of the greatest dogs in the world because I think that many of them know they have been rescued and try all the more harder to please.