Off topic, but an interesting story - at least to me

Ed1937 · September 2022

My SIL passed away last spring. Her family had a celebration of her life yesterday, which I attended. One of my nephews told me he had been researching something on the internet, and he happened to come across a newspaper article from around 1908. My father was 13 years old, and the house where he lived also had a rat terrier living there. Apparently, the house caught on fire in the middle of the night, and the dog barking woke them up. It was a bad fire, and the dog was credited with saving their lives. I never heard that story before.

Here's what was interesting about it. When I was about 4 or 5 years old, we had a rat terrier (coincidence?). Dad died when I was 3 weeks old, but a few years after the fire incident, he became a member of the fire department, and I still have his captain's badge from the fire department.

There were probably around 100 people attending the celebration of life, and if it hadn't have been for that dog, most of the people there would never have been born.