Leala, a 9-year-old Staffordshire Terrier, proved yet again that dogs are man's best friend when she saved 2-year-old Alexander Kenney from drowning.
Little Kenney was drowning in a dam near a friend's home, and Leala, who normally hates water, rushed in to save him. Not succeeding, the dripping dog ran home to get her family.
"The dog came running up saturated, which is unusual for her as she doesn't like water if it's cold," Alexander's mother Lisa Brockbank said, according to The Daily Telegraph. Realizing something was amiss, David Kenney followed his dog back to the dam to find the toddler floating face down in water.
Father and son duo and friends of the Kenney family, Joshua and Joshua Cluff, performed CPR for 27 minutes on the child before little Kenney was evacuated to Brisbane's Lady Cilento Hospital.
"The doctors said be prepared, you may not be taking this boy home, and if you do take him home he'll probably have some sort of brain damage," to Brockbank reports Bark Post. The child was put into a medically induced coma.
But he recovered within 48 hours, answering the doctors' questions and demanding love and affection from his parents.
"It was quite miraculous that he came back so soon and so clear and fine and unchanged," Brockbank said. "Without (Leala) we wouldn't have our little boy with us today, scotch fillets forever sweetheart," Brockbank wrote on Facebook, according to The Daily Mail.
Little Kenney has recovered and is back at school and spending time outdoors with his canine pal and life savior.
We salute you Leala.
