Another True Hero- George

I wanted to honour this courageous little hero by the name of George. He placed himself between 5 children and two pitbulls to protect the children.In the process, he was very severely mauled and had to be euthanized. The children are safe.The newspaper reports said George had a ‘bad heart’. I beg to differ. He had a good heart and that’s what made George a hero.George was 9 years old. Rest in peace, George. You are another of God’s true heroes!…and prayers go out to his human family members.Here’s the article:http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/05/02/4146580-ap.html———————————-Hero dog saves kids from pitbulls George, a 9-year-old Jack Russell is seen in New Plymouth, New Zealand. (AP)WELLINGTON, N.Z. (AP) – A plucky 30-centimetre-high Jack Russell terrier named George saved five New Zealand children from two marauding pitbulls but was so severely mauled in the fight he had to be destroyed, his owner said Wednesday.George was playing with the group of children as they returned home from buying sweets at a neighbourhood shop in the small North Island town Manaia last Sunday when the two pitbulls appeared and lunged toward them, George’s owner Allan Gay said."George was brave – he took them on and he’s not even a foot high," Gay said."He jumped in on them, he tried to keep them off.""If it wasn’t for George, those kids would have copped it."One of the children, Richard Rosewarne, 11, was quoted in the Taranaki Daily News newspaper Wednesday saying George fought with the pitbulls to keep them off his four-year-old brother, Darryl. "George tried to protect us by barking and rushing at them but they started to bite him – one on the head and the other on the back," Rosewarne said."We ran off crying and some people saw what was happening and rescued George."But George, aged nine, was so badly mauled a veterinarian had to put him down, Gay said."The two pitbulls ripped the skin from his throat and chest and down his back," he said, adding the tough little terrier also "had a bad heart condition."Gay said the pitbulls’ owner surrendered the pair to dog control officers and demanded they be destroyed, claiming they had launched unprovoked attacks previously.South Taranaki District Council official Graham Young said the two dogs had been impounded and likely would be destroyed because of the attack.