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Hero Dog Saves Elderly Woman
<span style="font-size: 8pt">Jackson, a doberman pinscher is being credited with saving an elderly woman who had fallen and injured herself while working in the backyard of her Rahway home.</span>
BY MARY SCHULTZ | wpix.com
April 17, 2009
RAHWAY, N.J. (WPIX) -- A Doberman pinscher is being credited with saving an elderly woman who had fallen and injured herself while working in the backyard of her Rahway home.
The dog's owner, Jeffrey Pattie, says the chocolate-brown puppy, named Jackson, started acting up Sunday afternoon. He said the dog ripped the screen out of a back window, cried, and kept running into the living room with the hair on his back standing up.
"He ran in my house and he was really, really upset," Pattie told PIX News. "He wouldn't calm down."
Pattie says his two other dogs remained unfazed by Jackson's behavior.
When he finally let Jackson out, he said the dog ran to the back fence four times, barking. Then Pattie heard a faint "help me" coming from about 20 feet away from the back of his yard. He spotted his neighbor, Gloria Szkambara, 90, lying on the ground beneath a screen door. Pattie called an ambulance.
The elderly woman was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Rahway, where she was treated for a sore left arm and leg.
Pattie called his puppy's actions "an Easter miracle."
<span style="font-size: 8pt">Jackson, a doberman pinscher is being credited with saving an elderly woman who had fallen and injured herself while working in the backyard of her Rahway home.</span>
BY MARY SCHULTZ | wpix.com
April 17, 2009
RAHWAY, N.J. (WPIX) -- A Doberman pinscher is being credited with saving an elderly woman who had fallen and injured herself while working in the backyard of her Rahway home.
The dog's owner, Jeffrey Pattie, says the chocolate-brown puppy, named Jackson, started acting up Sunday afternoon. He said the dog ripped the screen out of a back window, cried, and kept running into the living room with the hair on his back standing up.
"He ran in my house and he was really, really upset," Pattie told PIX News. "He wouldn't calm down."
Pattie says his two other dogs remained unfazed by Jackson's behavior.
When he finally let Jackson out, he said the dog ran to the back fence four times, barking. Then Pattie heard a faint "help me" coming from about 20 feet away from the back of his yard. He spotted his neighbor, Gloria Szkambara, 90, lying on the ground beneath a screen door. Pattie called an ambulance.
The elderly woman was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Rahway, where she was treated for a sore left arm and leg.
Pattie called his puppy's actions "an Easter miracle."
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