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Jeff Campbell

Daisy to the Rescue

Jeff Campbell Daisy To The Rescue True Stories Of Daring Dogs Paramedic Parrots A
 
 


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Biographical note:

Jeff Campbell is a freelance writer and book editor. For twelve years he was a travel writer for Lonely Planet, coauthoring guidebooks on Hawaii, Florida, the Southwest, and other US destinations. As an editor for the past twenty years, he has specialized in animal intelligence and emotions, among other topics. In particular, he has worked with Dr. Marc Bekoff on several books, including the highly regarded The Emotional Lives of Animals. Jeff also teaches creative writing to grade-school students. He lives in Northern New Jersey.

Excerpt from book:

LuLu the Pot-Bellied Pig Stops Traffic

Name: LuLu
Species: Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
Date: August 4, 1998
Location: Presque Isle, Pennsylvania
Situation: Woman suffering a heart attack
Who Was Saved: Jo Ann Altsman, 57-year-old wife and mother
Fame Meter: Hall-of-Famer


Quick: Which is smarter, a dog or a pig?
 Bzzzzz.
 Wrong.
 If you’re Jo Ann Altsman, or George Clooney for that matter, the answer is as simple as it is hard to miss. Pot-bellied pigs are the smartest, and you don’t need a bunch of scientific studies to prove it. Just listen to this:
 In August 1998, Jo Ann and Jack Altsman were summer vacationing on Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, a beautiful sandy peninsula that juts into Lake Erie. The couple had brought along their American Eskimo dog, Bear, and their pet Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, LuLu. A type of miniature pig, LuLu then weighed about 150 pounds, about the average adult weight.
 The Altsmans had originally purchased LuLu in 1997 as a fortieth birthday present for their daughter, Jackie. Imagine her surprise? Strangely enough, Jackie never got around to taking LuLu home, and as the four-pound piglet grew, so did the Altsmans’ love for her. They kept LuLu, and Jo Ann is eternally grateful they did.
 On the morning of August 4, while her husband was fishing on Lake Erie, Jo Ann suffered a heart attack in their vacation home. It was her second heart attack in eighteen months, and she fell to the floor, gasping, and couldn’t get up. Jo Ann threw an alarm clock through the window, breaking it, and yelled for help, but no one heard her.
 Meanwhile, her dog, Bear, was barking his fool head off, and LuLu “made sounds like she was crying,” Jo Ann said. “You know, they cry big, fat tears.”
 Then LuLu decided to do something. She crashed through the trailer’s doggie door--breaking it open wider but cutting her stomach in the process--knocked open the enclosed yard’s gate, and ran to an adjacent road.
 “I didn’t know that she knew that I was in dire trouble,” Jo Ann said. “I just kept telling her to go night-night.”
 Once at the street, as witnesses described later, LuLu decided to play “dead piggy.” This was one of LuLu’s favorite games, one in which “she knows she’ll get attention,” Jo Ann said. LuLu lay down in the middle of the road, forcing cars to drive around her.
 But no one would stop.
 So, for the next forty-five minutes, LuLu kept returning to the trailer to check on Jo Ann, and then returning to the road to play “dead piggy” until she got someone’s attention.
 What about Bear? The stupid dog just kept barking. 
 Finally, an anonymous man pulled over and got out of his car. Seeing the bloody injury on the animal’s flank, and concerned for her safety (and perhaps her sanity), he followed LuLu as the “little piggy” ran wee-wee-wee all the way home.
 “I heard a man hollering through the door, ‘Lady, your pig’s in distress,” Jo Ann recounted. “I said, ‘I’m in

Foreword by Dr. Marc Bekoff............................................................... 8
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................ 12

PART ONE
DOMESTIC COMPANIONS
LuLu the Pot-Bellied Pig . . . Stops Traffic...................................... 27
Dory the Rabbit . . . leaps into action.............................................. 32
Mkombozi the Dog . . . Rescues an Abandoned Baby.................... 36
Frisky the Dog . . . Kisses His Owner.............................................. 41
Honey the Cocker Spaniel . . . Meets the Neighbors........................ 45
Shana the Half-Breed Wolf . . . Digs a Tunnel of Love..................... 49
Toby the Golden Retriever . . . Performs the Heimlich Maneuver.. 53
Khan the Doberman Pinscher . . . Tosses the Toddler..................... 58
Willie the Quaker Parrot . . . Learns a New Word.......................... 62
Inky the Cat . . . Knocks on the Door............................................. 66
Angel the Golden Retriever . . . Wrestles a Cougar.......................... 70
“Free-of-Charge Mutts” . . . Fend Off a Suicide Bomber.................. 74
Stormy the Quarter Horse . . . Drop Kicks a Feral Boar................... 79
Kabang the Aspin . . . Stops a Motorcycle....................................... 83
Pudding the Maine Coon . . . Plays Doctor....................................... 89
Lilly the Pit Bull . . . Confronts a Freight Train................................... 93
Czarue the Stray . . . Keeps a Lost Girl Warm................................... 97

PART TWO
TRAINED TO SERVE, INSPIRED TO HEAL
Fonzie the Dolphin . . . Makes a Boy Laugh...................................... 107
Dakota the Golden Retriever . . . Predicts Heart Attacks.................. 112
Endal the Labrador Retriever . . . Becomes Endal, the Wonder Dog!. 118
Roselle the Seeing-Eye Dog . . . Leads the Way Out.......................... 124
Trakr the German Shepherd . . . Finds the Last Survivor.................... 130
Rocky the K-9 . . . Catches an Armed Fugitive.................................. 135
Cheyenne the Pit Bull . . . Keeps a Vet from Suicide.......................... 139
Betsy the Quarter Horse . . . Bows to a Child................................... 145
Molly the Pony . . . Loses a Leg and Inspires Hope........................... 152
Chancer the Golden Retriever . . . Calms the Storm........................... 158
Treo the Labrador Retriever . . . Sniffs Out a Bomb........................... 164
Ricochet the Surfing Dog . . . Rides with the Disabled........................ 169
Daisy the Labrador Retriever . . . Detects Breast Cancer.................... 176
Cairo the Belgian Malinois . . . Assists Navy SEAL Team Six............ 180

PART THREE
WILD SAVIORS
Jambo the Gorilla . . . Comforts a Fallen Boy...................................... 187
Ugandan Vervet Monkeys . . . Adopt a Runaway............................... 192
Binti Jua the Gorilla . . . Consoles an Injured Child............................... 198
Donna Nook Gray Seals . . . Keep a Woman Afloat............................ 204
Lulu the Kangaroo . . . Saves a Farmer................................................. 209
Bottlenose Dolphins . . . ROUND UP THE Lifeguards........................ 213
Ningnong the Elephant . . . Runs from a Tsunami.................................. 216
Ethiopian Lions . . . Rescue a Girl from Kidnappers.............................. 221
Bottlenose Dolphins . . . Stop a Shark Attack..................................... 224
Mila the Beluga Whale . . . Lifts a Drowning Diver.............................. 231
legends and folktales

PART FOUR
LEGENDS AND FOLKTALES
Mediteranean Dolphins . . . Give a Greek Poet a Ride..................... 2

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