Bhubaneshwar: A pet dog at Janla village in Odisha’s Khurda district has made supreme sacrifice to protect its master’s family from a venomous snake, reports said on Wednesday.
Laden, a male dog, died from snakebite, but saved its master’s two little children. The incident, according to villagers, happened on Monday evening.
According to reports, two grandchildren of Sunil Krushna Samantray, the owner of loyal dog, were playing under portico of the house and the pet was tied with a chain. The family members were also sitting there in the evening.
During the period, a five-ft long cobra entered into the front yard. After seeing the snake, the family shouted with fear and two children started crying.
Without making delay, Laden jumped over the snake and wrestled to overpower the reptile. The brave dog gnawed the venomous snake following which the latter died.
The panicked family members, who were watching the scene, rushed to check the condition of braveheart. However, Laden who was bitten by the venomous snakes several times, closed his eyes minutes after the fight.
In a similar incident on June 7 this year, a dog in Badagada area in state capital Bhubaneswar fought against a cobra to guard lives of its owner’s family members in Bhubaneswar. The pet dog guarding their gate spotted the reptile and prevented it from entering into the house.When family members woke up hearing their dog barking, they found their pet caught in serious fight with the snake. Despite being repeatedly beaten by the snake, he threw the reptile outside the gate twice. But when the snake entered into the house again, the pet attacked and mauled it.
The dog was immediately rushed him to the veterinary dispensary inside the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) and given two injections, saline and also administered anti-venom drugs. The pet survived.
On March 4 night in 2019, a pet dog had sacrificed its live to save members of his master’s family from the attack of venomous snake at Jatni under Khurda district in Odisha. Tyson, a male Dalmatian breed dog had died after fighting an intense battle with an Indian Cobra to save his owner Arif Aman and his family late on Monday night.
