A plucky foot-high Jack Russell
terrier named George saved five New Zealand children from two marauding
pitbulls, but was so severely mauled in the fight he had to be destroyed,
according to his devastated owner.
George was playing with the group of
children as they returned home from buying sweets at a neighborhood shop in the
small North Island town of Manaia last Sunday when the two pitbulls appeared
and lunged toward them, his owner Allan Gay said.
"George was brave - he took them
on and he's not even a foot high," Gay told The Associated Press. "He
jumped in on them, he tried to keep them off.
"If it wasn't for George, those
kids would have copped it."
One of the children, Richard
Rosewarne, 11, was quoted in the Taranaki Daily News on Wednesday as saying
George fought with the pitbulls to keep them off his four-year-old brother,
Darryl.
"George tried to protect us by
barking and rushing at them, but they started to bite him - one on the head and
the other on the back," Rosewarne said. "We ran off crying and some
people saw what was happening and rescued George."
But George, aged nine, was so badly
mauled that a veterinarian had to put him down, Gay said. His heroic
intervention saved the children, though he later died from his injuries. George
was posthumously awarded a medal for bravery.
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Oh how sweet :( sad that he didn't survive. Brave little Jack Rusells ,you can't no love him.
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