A brave dog saved a family from carbon monoxide poisoning by jumping on and off her owner’s bed.
37-year-old Brad Harbert from Iowa knew something wasn’t right when their coonhound and husky mix, Roxy, suddenly jumped on his bed in the middle of the night.
Speaking to WHO13, he said: “She just was jumping off my bed, jumping back up on the bed. When I started to come to, I was hearing an alarm, and it wasn’t the smoke alarm.”
The father said that their family dog is ‘really mild-mannered’ and rarely barks. He then realized that something was wrong when the pooch started to jump on and off his bed while he was sleeping.
As soon as he got up, the heroic pooch rushed to his son’s room.
“I jumped out of bed. Right when I did, Roxy came out to the hallway and she scratched Jackson’s door to see if he was OK,” Harbert said.
The dad checked the front of their carbon monoxide detector and discovered that it ‘chirps four times.’ He then got his son, father, and dog out of the house and contacted 911.
Only minutes later, the Ankeny Fire Department arrived but couldn’t find where the carbon monoxide was leaking from.
Midamerican Energy then arrived and discovered that the poisonous gas was coming from the family’s electric and gas fireplace.
Harbert couldn’t contain her emotions while speaking about their dog’s heroism. “She’s pretty special to us,” he expressed.
“I could tell something was wrong that night that she woke me up and just her actions, she was kind of shivering and just really concerned that we would get outside.”
“(I’m) very, very happy to have a dog and very happy to have her,” he added.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 400 people in the US die from carbon monoxide poisoning not linked to fires every year.
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