There’s a new hero in the home of John and Peta-Jayne Smith of Gonubie, East London — their pet border collie Lassie who on Friday saved her mistress from the knives of two intruders.
One of the would-be robbers stabbed Smith in the neck, and while he was lunging at her in an attempt to stab her a second time, Lassie intervened.
”The intruder had me by the jersey and was coming at me with his knife when Lassie jumped between us — pushing him away and setting me free from his grip,” Smith said on Sunday. She said she then ran screaming to a neighbour’s house for assistance and that when she and her neighbours came back to investigate, the intruders were gone.
”It appears as though the intruders were so taken aback by Lassie’s actions that they fled the house immediately,” she said. Smith was taken to a local doctor where she received thirteen stitches to the neck and was told that the blade had come very close to her jugular vein.
”It would be safe to say that Lassie saved me from further injury and possibly death — what more proof do you need to prove that man’s best friend is his dog?” Smith said.
She said her husband John was away on a fishing trip at the time of the attack, and that she was busy at the computer when the lights went out suddenly around midnight.
Smith lit a candle and went to the kitchen to investigate but when she got to the mains she saw a blade coming at her. – Sapa