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Dog Saved Elderly Lady from Tsunami?

posted by Jake Richardson Mar 30, 2011 2:02 pm
filed under: Dogs, Pets & Animals
Dog Saved Elderly Lady from Tsunami?
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You may have seen the video of the dog in Japan that refused to leave the side of another canine injured by the tsunami. Now another heroic dog story has surfaced, but this time it includes a person. Daily Yomiuri Online has reported a twelve-year old  shih tzu named Babu very insistently led her owner straight away from their home right before the tsunami struck and up a hill. Immediately after taking their place on the hill, a very large muddy wall of water engulfed their house, where they had been just minutes before.

Babu has a particular way of letting her 83 year-old owner, Tami Akanuma, know when she wants to go out for a walk, but there was something a little different about it that day. Babu was more animated, and the lights in the home had gone out, when she bolted out the front door. She headed away from  the normal walking route and instead went towards a hill. Akanuma heard a warning message about a tsunami approaching over the community speaker system, and followed Babu. The dog kept running way, then waiting for Tami to catch up, repeatedly until they had traversed a kilometer. On the hill Tami looked backwards and saw the land they had just crossed covered in cold sea water and mud.

Babu and Tami survived that day, which was the worst of the disaster in terms of the forceful destruction, and are now staying in a shelter with about sixty others. Akanuma's house was about 200 yards from the coast in Taro-Kawamukai. The average life span is about twelve years and Babu just turned twelve. Some believe Shih tzus descended from Tibetan dogs that lived over ten thousand years ago. Modern day Shih tzus are descended from just fourteen that were saved from the Cultural Revolution.

It has been thought some animals can feel vibrations and hear sounds humans can't perceive and therefore are alerted earlier to natural disasters like earthquakes.

Image Credit: Public Domain

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gerlinde p.

we should take more heed of our animals. my dogs started barking in the middle of the night, i was a little annoyed because i had finally just fallen asleep,when i heard one of the neighbours shouting fire, someone had set fire in the stairhouse, fortunately noone was hurt. because the neihgbour detected it coming home from work.

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Karen N.

You see what happens when we listen to our animals . . . very nice story.

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Isabel Araujo

This is a great story, thank you.

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Chelsie H.

What an awesome little dog!

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  • Mar 30, 2011 5:13 PM

Perceptive little dog!

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patti ng

Very heartwarming!!!

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Naoko I.

Excuse me for my double posts. The system doesn't work properly.

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Heather L.

What a cute & brave little dog....

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Naoko I.

I posted this on the C2NN directly from the Daily Yomiuri on the day it was reported online in English (Japanese version was reported a day before). And it had been on the front page for a while.

http://www.care2.com/news/member/100330942/2760201

I don't complain but feel uneasy finding this article here. And the photo of the dog here is not of Babu, the hero dog.

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Chloe Foster

This is such a great story and that fact about animals being able to hear vibrations before humans was so cool! This just proves that animals are amazing inspiring creatures!

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