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Chihuahua Saves Baby From Rattlesnake
AP Posted: 2007-07-23 07:22:39

MASONVILLE, Colo. (July 22) - Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners'
1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.

Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents' northern Colorado back yard
when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck.
Five-pound Zoey jumped in the way and took the bites.

"She got in between Booker and the snake, and that's when I heard her yipe,"
said Monty Long, the boy's grandfather.

The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive.
Now she prances about.

"These little bitty dogs, they just don't really get credit," Booker's grandma Denise Long
told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.

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