Dog Saves Owner's Life TWICE!

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By Paul Fredericks

Summary

And that's not the end of the story. Check out how a small community helps in a big way.

Story Created: Dec 14, 2007 at 6:03 PM MDT

Story Updated: Nov 7, 2008 at 11:29 AM MDT

Dog Saves Owner's Life TWICE!
"Where you at girl?" Candice Jennings calls out to her hero.

"Anna!"

Anna, she's a plump size pooch (and plump is being polite). Without her, we couldn't do this story.

"That's my girl."

And Anna maybe Candice's favorite of her three dogs. The healer has stuck by her side through thick and thin.

"I was really muddled in my brain after inhaling all that black smoke," Candice says about the days following a fire at her Idaho City home.

Candice's trailer home is gone. Nearby, her life is a charred pile of rubble. Fire destroyed her home on thanksgiving morning. But, thank goodness for Anna.

"So, she grabbed the bed covers, and pulled them off my bed which was right next to the wood stove."

Anna woke up her owner in time for them to escape.

"I realize I haven't called 9-1-1." Then, Candice decided to go back in to call for help.

"I would like to think I would've found the damn door," she say with a chuckle. "I really do."

But, Candice couldn't find her way out.

"The middle room of the house is caving in right then," she says about her harrowing experience. "There's only about 6" of air at the bottom of the floor."

"She (Anna) grabs the sleeves of my jammies, rips the arms of my pajamas off. and then gets her butt behind me and just starts moving her feet so fast, you could hear 'em clicking on the carpet and rolls me right out the door, and down the steps onto the porch."

But, the story gets even better. The Idaho City community makes it better.

Ii just spent the first several days just crying," Candice says. "They brought food, and money, and dog food,and laundry soap."

But, they were not done. The overwhelming response continued with an over-sized load that came in on a flatbed truck this week. It was a new trailer home.

A Boise mobile home park is closing, so the owner donated it.

"It'll just be nice to get the dogs in where they can settle down," she says. "And I hear it's gonna have heat and lights and a door and water."

Everything she could ask for - and more.

"It makes me feel like I'm tall and beautiful."

"Everybody has helped her," says one of Candice's neighbors. "Not just this trailer park, but the whole town."

"Our community, it works together. They're amazing people up here."

And now Candice and her hero have a new home to call all their own.

"Home, sweet, home," says Candice.

The Idaho City Hotel also has put up Candice for free until she can get into her new home.

But, Candice Jennings can still use help getting her home set up and furnished. If you can help, donations can be made to a fund set up in her name at any Washington Mutual Bank.

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