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Plucky pooch protects her owner from an unwelcome guest AMELIA PARROTT
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he may be small but Demi, the eight-year-old Miniature Foxie Jack Russell mix, knows when her owner needs her. The courageous canine recently saved her owner, Pam Pitt, from an eight-foot Eastern brown snake, which Ms Pitt believed made its way into her backyard in some earth she had delivered to her Minmi home. “I was topping up my garden bed with the earth...and just as fast as I was topping it up Demi was digging and barking and trying to get her nose in.� Ms Pitt said her dog continued acting strangely, barking at the back fence, until she went out to investigate and found what she fi rst thought was a lizard hidden in the unmown lawn in her yard. “I thought, ‘That’s not a lizard’s head, that’s a snake’, and then it charged at us... lunging like a Cobra. “Thank god this time Demi was with me and she chased it behind the water heater and she kept at it.� After discovering the snake, Ms Pitt secured Demi, alerted her neighbour and a professional was called to catch the snake. What ensued was commotion involving 18 residents of Bell Street and Church Street attempting to corner the snake, following it across the street and into a neighbouring property where the snake eventually slid under the concrete slab of a neighbour’s garage before wildlife experts could capture it. Ms Pitt maintained if it wasn’t for Demi alerting her in the fi rst instance, she is likely to have been bitten. @thepostjourno
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Pam Pitt with her Miniature Foxie cross Jack Russell, Demi PHOTO: AMELIA PARROTT
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