Pitbull hailed as hero for helping bring life-saving help to unconscious owners [View all]

A dog reportedly braved heavy traffic to catch a stranger’s attention and get life-saving emergency help to the animal’s two owners after they became unresponsive in a tent encampment in Pittsburgh recently, earning the canine feting as a hero.

As local resident Gary Thynes put it both in a social media post and an interview with the Pittsburgh television station WTAE, he was playing with his dog at a park on the evening of 29 July when a pit bull approached barking and evidently trying to get someone’s attention.

Thynes left his dog with a friend and then began following as he was led away by the pit bull. He and the animal crossed a street teeming with motorists and ended up at a tent encampment along a “super secluded” path behind some train tracks, where Thynes found a man lying on a red couch and unsuccessfully tried to wake him, he recounted on Facebook.

He told WTAE that he also spotted an unconscious woman whose legs were sticking out of a tent. Thynes called 911 to report the scene to first responders, who arrived within minutes to take the pair to the hospital, he later posted on Facebook.