Rottweiler burns down the house

[Rene Allegrini]

Unbelievable!

Rottweiler burns the house down - all for a piece of birthday cake | the Daily Mail
26th April 2007


It was just too tempting to ignore, but when hungry pup Peggy jumped up to snatch a piece of birthday cake from the kitchen bench it nearly ended in tragedy.

The six-month-old Rottweiler cross accidently switched on the hob, setting the cake on fire.

Flames and smoke rapidly spread through the house and with Peggy's owners out the dog found refuge in the bath

Fire crew called to Tony and Lorraine Shaw's home found Peggy close to death. She had stuck her tongue down the plughole in a desperate bid to draw oxygen.

Firefighters fought to resuscitate Peggy for around 45 minutes before she came round and she was reunited with Tony and Lorraine.

Sooty black marks she left in the bath are testament to her ordeal.

Mother-of-two Mrs Shaw, 39, was so overjoyed to see her dog come back to life she kissed firefighter Stephen Buglass, who used a resuscitator to saved her.

She said: "Peggy must have jumped and knocked a switch because the hob came on, the cake caught fire and the kitchen went up. I think she was after the cake."

"If it hadn't been for the firefighters Peggy would have been dead. I am just so very grateful. It would have devastated my children Curtis and Daniel, who are seven and six. She is only six months old.

"It was Tony's 46th birthday and I'd left the cake near the hob."

Sub-officer Kieran Brennan said: "The neighbour raised the alarm because he heard the dog barking.

"Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus forced their way in and brought out the dog, who was nearly dead.

"Firefighters started massaging it and giving it oxygen therapy and worked on it for a long time, around 45 minutes.

"It eventually revived and is undoubtedly an extremely lucky dog."

The Shaws are having to temporarily move out of the home in in Waterfield Road, East Sleekburn, Northumberland and face a massive redecorating task.

[hokisteph5]

Okay, international RDNers help me out. What is a hob?

[FourLeggedChildren]

THANK YOU! Im reading this article thinking to myself "What the beep is a hob??"! lol :)

[moondog]

HOB:

1) the flat surface on which pots are heated, either on top of a cooker or as a separate piece of equipment.

2) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings by exercising their mischievous spirit.


Number one sounds like a stove and number two sounds like a puppy! Mix the two and you have Chaos.

And....that little stinker doesn't look like a Rottweiler to me!

[JoJo]

that little stinker doesn't look like a Rottweiler

Maybe not, but sure has the brains of one!

Moral of story.....crate your young dog when you can't be around to supervise.

[marianna]

It says rottweiler cross....

lol

[hokisteph5]

Thanks moondog! I should've used dictionary.com, but was too lazy and pressed for time yesterday evening.

[Burnsway]

Looks more like a Shepherd Cross to me.........

[damp]

Originally Posted by marianna

It says rottweiler cross....

to me it looks more like a GSD mix!!!!!!

Originally Posted by hokisteph5

Thanks moondog! I should've used dictionary.com, but was too lazy and pressed for time yesterday evening.

...and my dictionary translates: a hob = en kogeplade

[moondog]

Originally Posted by damp

...and my dictionary translate a hob = kogeplade

And....my brain translates that into "cooking plate"......am I close?

[Gunsey'sMom]

I had to look twice at this one- It s usually Rottweiler saves burning house LOL.

[damp]

Originally Posted by moondog

And....my brain translates that into "cooking plate"......am I close?

YES... you get an A

[Cherry Heart]

I am looking at the "6month rottweiler" and seeing a "2year german shepard mix". Either way, I hope these people realize how lucky they are. Crates are so important, even a room gated off, something, ANYTHING. Wow, lucky lucky dog and people.

[RottieGirl86]

lol.. silly humans. Our wire hair terrier ate a birthday cake once and licked both sides of the knife! he somehow got the knife flipped over! he also ate 1 turkey when we went out on thanksgiving! In our case, it was the dinig room table. The idea of leaving food out on stove ugh definitely a recipie for disaster!

[AristaStar]

I learned the crate lesson with Hope this same way! I was putting her in the laundry room during the day when I'd go to work and she figured out how to work door knobs and let herself out (she still works doorknobs)...I had an old lamp with the turn-key style on/off switch on a table she knocked over into a corner. The turn-key hit the wall, turned on the lamp and the lamp started burning through the drywall (mobile home too). If the bulb hadn't burnt out my house would've went up with puppy, kitties and all. I actually had charcoal in my wall from the burning.

Needless to say, I got a crate that night. And come to think of it, she was about 6 months old too Intelligent little stinkers they are.