Heroic Pup Saves Owner From House Fire ALERTING HIM IN THE NICK OF TIME
When you get a dog, it becomes an indispensable part of your family. After spending so many days, months, and years feeding, walking, petting and caring for it, you can only hope that if you ever needed its help with anything, the dog would rise to the challenge. Well, back in April, one very lucky dog owner confirmed that his 3-year-old bull terrier, Rocky, would always have his back when it counts. Sulphur Springs, Texas, resident Fernando Montes de Oca received a “second chance at life” after he was alerted to a house fire that would have almost certainly consumed both of them had Rocky not begun to bark incessantly to awake his owner. Montes de Oca has had Rocky since he was a puppy. He had no reason to expect that one day his pup would save his life. When Montes de Oca fell asleep on a couch in his detached garage one evening, he awoke to the sound of Rocky barking — and to flames surrounding him. Firefighters guessed the fire started from an overloaded power strip. No one else was around Montes de Oca’s property that night. It was just him and Rocky — and luckily, that was just enough to save him. Because of Rocky’s barks, Montes de Oca escaped in time, only having burned his hand on a doorknob when he left the garage. He was later treated for his burns at Medical City Plano, a nearby burn center, and is expected to make a full recovery. Rocky did not sustain any injuries in the fire. Though Montes de Oca’s garage burned to the ground, he and his family are just thankful he’s alive — and thankful for Rocky, the dog responsible for alerting him to the fire. “Rocky did save my life, and he deserves a big ole T-bone steak,” said Montes de Oca to local news station WFAA. True to his word, Rocky did receive his steak — the least Montes de Oca could do to thank his pup for saving his life.
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because of where he was born, with his country’s government, he was unable to do that. I was heartbroken for him.
bananas, plantains, and mangoes grew wild everywhere. The ground was so fertile, yet people were going hungry. The wonders of socialism.
Our capitalist system may not be perfect, but it works a whole lot better than any of the socialist or communist alternatives. So, this Fourth of July, instead of focusing on those few things that are wrong with our country, I hope we can find reasons to be grateful for the freedoms we still have in these United States of America. Happy Fourth of July!
While we were there, I spoke with a man who had been a member of the Sandinistas, a socialist political party that had overthrown the previous Nicaraguan government and ruled through the 1980s. When I was in the military in the 1980s, we were trained to fight against two primary threats: the Soviets and the Sandinistas. So I conversed with a man who, less than a decade before, would have been my sworn enemy, someone I was trained to kill, and I found out he was just a normal guy like me who wanted to work, feed his family, and watch his children grow up. But
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