Who said animals are stupid and do not use their brains? For a dog in UK proved to be alert and sharp, saving his own life by dialling emergency services.
After George, the two-year-old Basset Hound in West Yorkshire, got so tangled in a phone cord that he began choking, the frantic pup somehow managed to alert the Emergency Services by dialling 999, the Sun reports.
Concerned by the heavy breathing on the other end, the emergency operator dispatched police to the home, thinking that someone had collapsed or been attacked. George's owners Steve Brown and his daughter Lydia, weren't home, but as the police were preparing to smash down the door, a neighbour, Paul Walker, ran out with a key to let the police into the house.
As the police were searching the house, the neighbour walked into the living room and found terrified George choking, with a phone lead wound tightly round his neck, the report said. Paul, 41, ripped the phone apart to wrench the wire from George's throat.
"The police split up and ran through the house thinking someone had either been attacked or was desperately ill. I went to look around as well and walked into this room and saw George choking," Paul said.
"He was absolutely terrified and could not free himself. "I knew I had to get him free quickly so I just ripped the wire out," he said, adding "Incredibly you could see where his paw print was on the phone to ring 999 — he literally saved his own life."
Paul had been left a key by college student Lydia to feed George later in the evening while she went out to do an evening shift as a waitress, the paper reported.