The following is a list of individual dogs.
Not all dogs that are famous for saving lives are working dogs. Famous lifesaving dogs with no special training or job include the following:
The Soviets favored dogs for early space flights, as opposed to the Americans, who preferred monkeys and chimpanzees.
Some dogs are made famous by frequently or prominently appearing in the media with their famous owner.
According to 315th history, Philly was a combatant, too, in the Lorraine and Meuse-Argonne campaigns. She was shot, gassed and awarded two Purple Hearts.
She excelled so well at guard duty – barking to alert soldiers of sneak attacks – that a German commander placed a bounty of 50 deutschemarks on her head.
A keen-eared German Shepherd has been credited with saving a newborn's life after the infant was abandoned in a park in Birmingham, England.
An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies.
Gilchrist speculated that the dog was possibly trying to care for the child because most of her puppies had died. 'She reckoned it was a young animal and possibly wanted to bring it up,' Gilchrist said. 'It is something to do with the canine-human bond. Others would have just left her there to die. ... She's obviously a very special dog...'
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