Heel, Lassie. There’s a new courageous canine in town.
Meet Peanut, a black and white pup recently adopted from Albuquerque’s Westside shelter. The day after he was adopted, Peanut’s new owner, Andrew Budek-Schmeisser, said the dog saved his life.
Budek-Schmeisser, who suffers from frequent falls, wanted to adopt a bigger dog to help him balance and keep him mobile. But little did he know how perfectly Peanut would fit the role — until Budek-Schmeisser fell outside his house in Belen while his wife was at church.
“I was in trouble,” Budek-Schmeisser said. “I hit my head and my windpipe was occluded.”
Because
of his head position, Budek-Schmeisser started choking and began to
slip out of consciousness. The world was starting to fade from gray to
black, he said.
But then he felt Peanut. The pup worked his way behind Budek-Schmeisser until he could lean on his furry friend. Peanut wiggled under his arm so Budek-Schmeisser could sit up. That’s when another of the couple’s dogs made its way over and helped “lever” him to his feet.
Peanut’s heroism hasn’t gone to his head, though. Although Budek-Schmeisser said he fits in “beautifully” with the family’s other dogs, Peanut is still terrorized by their 8-pound senior dog with a broken back.
The white-socked dog can be chatty — with a voice like Scooby Doo, Budek-Schmeisser said. But it’s his personality, intelligence and “strength of character” that make Peanut so lovable.
“We live in a world where there is a lot of bad news, there’s a lot of anger and there’s a lot of hate,” Budek-Schmeisser said. “It’s through the hearts of these creatures that we can see love writ large.”
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Dog adopted from Westside Shelter in Albuquerque saves owner's life one day after adoption
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