Rescue Dog Saves Child From Deadly Snake
A Doberman, rescued from a shelter by a family in Australia has become a life saver after protecting a little girl from one of the world’s most venomous snakes.
The dog, named Khan, is reported to have got in between the little Charlotte Svillicic and suffered a bite from the deadly reptile himself.
Yesterday Charlotte’s mum Catherine hailed the pet a hero, saying: “He saved her life by risking his own. If I had not seen it with my own eyes I would never have believed it.”
She told how Khan became agitated as Charlotte played at the back of her home in Atherton near Cairns, on Australia’s Queensland coast.
Then the pet made a sudden lunge for the toddler. Catherine went on: “Khan was acting aggressively towards Charlotte and kept nudging her, but it wasn’t working.
“So he grabbed her by the back of the nappy and threw her over his shoulder more than a metre, like she was a rag doll.
“Charlotte looked pretty shocked, then Khan screamed, like he’d been stabbed.”
The hidden snake had struck, biting the dog on the leg.
Catherine said: “He didn’t yelp, he just screamed. And I thought, ‘Gosh – thanks’. I realised quickly it was a snake.”
Khan, who owes his own life to the family after suffering ill-treatment and abuse from his previous owners, received a shot of antivenom from a vet and the family nursed him through the night.
Apart from being very sick in the hours after the attack, he has made a full recovery.
Yesterday, as he and Charlotte played happily back in the garden, Catherine said: “From now on, he’s Khan the Wonder Dog.” SOURCE
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