A dog in north-eastern Croatia was being hailed as a hero on Monday after it reportedly raised the alarm to rescue a man who had been buried under a snow drift during a blizzard.
Misko, an eight-month-old cross between a Labrador and an Irish setter, barked until his owner followed him to the place where 54-year-old Stjepan Peserlin lay unconscious beneath a pile of snow, the Vecernji List daily reported.
”He rarely barks, but that evening he wouldn’t stop. He was running to the street and back and wouldn’t leave me alone until I followed him,” Misko’s owner, Mato Basic, told the paper.
Peserlin and Basic are neighbours in Starigrad, north-eastern Croatia, and Peserlin had befriended Misko with regular offerings of food, the report said. — Sapa-AFP