HotmailHero hound: Dog tries to rescue dog in Chile
One brave pup dodges traffic to pull a mortally wounded dog off a freeway
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Heroic dog tries to save fellow pooch Dec. 9: Surveillance video from Chile shows a dog crossing a busy highway to help another dog that was hit by a vehicle. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. msnbc.com |
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SANTIAGO, Chile - Chileans have a new hero: an apparently homeless dog who's gone missing.
A surveillance camera on a Santiago freeway captured images of a dog trotting past speeding cars to pull the body of another dog, mortally struck by a vehicle, away from traffic, to the median strip.
The scene was broadcast by Chilean television stations and then posted on Web sites such as YouTube.com, and hundreds of thousands of people had viewed versions of it by Monday.
Highway crews removed both the dead and live dogs from the median strip of the Vespucio Norte Highway shortly after the Dec. 4 incident, and the rescuer dog ran away.
Authorities say images of the rescue prompted some people to call and offer to adopt the dog, but neither highway workers nor a television crew could find they animal when they went to hunt for it.
Click here to watch the the video.
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