CANONSBURG, PA (USA)
Mar 28, 2007
Here's
a pooch who took the phrase "baby sitter" literally. When "RC", a
German Shepherd/Husky mix, discovered 2-year-old Vincent Rhodey
wandering around in the freezing cold wearing only a t-shirt, he sat on
him.
Baby Vincent had strayed from his home in the
early morning hours of Mar. 21 in Canonsburg, PA where temperatures
dipped as low as 32°F (0°C). Not only was the child in danger of
hypothermia, he was also ambling dangerously close to a 30' precipice
overhanging a busy street.
RC curled up with the boy in his outdoor bed of straw until around 9am when Terry Bard, the dog's guardian, found them.
"He was laying on top of the baby," Mr. Bard describes. "The dog's definitely a hero." 1
Canonsburg
police arrived at around 8:30 and located Vincent's mother Angela Harps
next door where she was sleeping. They found a door of her house open.
"I feel really guilty, and I regret all of it," she told reporters. I didn't mean for it to happen." 1
Ms.
Harps is now facing child endangerment charges. Her son, whom doctors
determined to be ok, has been placed in the custody of his maternal
grandparents.
RC was reportedly agitated to see
Vincent go. Says Mr. Bard, "He was jumping around, wagging his tail. He
kind of lost his little friend. He wanted to stick with him." 2  
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