Beauty, the black Labrador Retriever, is slowly recovering after saving her ducky siblings from an alligator attack. Since they were tiny ducklings, Beauty has looked after Crest, Downy, and Dot and treated them with love and care.

She was even once thought to be “missing” when the ducks wandered off and got stuck in a thornbush. Beauty stayed by their sides and laid next to the bush until her parents came to find them. So, when an even bigger and scarier threat came along, this brave pooch was ready to defend her flock.

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The beautiful 8-year-old dog lives with her family and their pet ducks on the shore of Lake Powell in Panama City Beach, Florida. The day of the attack started out the same as any other, with Beauty following closely and keeping an eye on her feathery best friends. But it soon turned terrifying when Beauty’s mom heard noises that indicated something had gone terribly wrong.

“I just went into panic mode. I heard a commotion, and honestly, I thought another dog had gotten in the yard. It wasn’t a bark-like I recognized from Beauty,” said Misti, Beauty’s mom.

When Misti made it to the shore, she noticed that her ducks were overtly flustered, that Beauty was soaking wet, and that there was an alligator laying on the sand at the water’s edge. Misti immediately realized that Beauty wasn’t okay. She couldn’t stand up when called and wasn’t moving. So Misti immediately ran to Beauty, picked her up, and drove her to VetsPets Animal Hospital.

“The alligator was the first thing I saw because it was right at the edge of the water. Once I went down, there was just blood everywhere. There had clearly been a fight,” said Misti

Once Dr. Barr had examined her, he knew that Beauty was in rough shape. She had sustained several serious injuries. Beauty had massive soft tissue wounds and deep gashes on her back. She also had a broken leg and would require two surgeries.

Luckily, this brave girl made it through the long, difficult procedures and is now expected to make a full recovery in six to eight weeks.

Much to her loving family’s relief, Beauty finally returned home from the hospital on September 29th. That 16-day hospital stay felt like forever. While she is still recovering, Beauty will continue healing at home and will be in the capable hands of her loving mom.

Misti has since shared that Beauty is walking much better, but they are continuing to keep a close eye on her wounds. While Beauty is expected to make a full recovery post alligator encounter, one of the ducks did not make it home and is presumed to have been eaten.

Misti shared that this is not the first time she has seen an alligator swimming in Lake Powell. She said she also spotted one during the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. She doesn’t, however, think this is the same gator.

Since the attack, Beauty’s dad has reached out to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. They came to remove the gator, but were unable to locate it. They plan to return to look for it again.

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The bond between retired Army Sergeant Jason Bos and his military dog Cici is a very special one indeed. They were together on over 100 missions and spent over 5 years with each other, protecting each other and giving each other much-needed love and companionship.

Cici was in charge of detecting bombs and was on the military frontlines protecting her fellow soldiers from unforeseen danger around the world, including Germany, Kuwait and Iraq. When Sergeant Bos was sent back home, the military decided Cici’s job wasn’t over yet. She would serve in war-torn regions for another year.

When they finally retired Cici, Sergeant Bos jumped at the chance of reuniting with Cici and began the work of officially adopting her, so she could stay with him forever. When she finally returned home, Bos was waiting to receive her at the airport, and so were dozens of reporters. Her story had caught the attention of local news channels.

In this clip, we see Cici recognizing Bos’s voice before she even sees him, and she leaps with joy seeing her old friend again. We are so happy this moment was caught on camera.

We hope Sergeant Bos and Cici’s time together is filled with loads of love and fun! It’s great to see reunion videos like this one, and hope all dogs in military service get similarly awesome retirements with their military buddies.

Click the video below to watch Cici reuniting with Sergeant Bos!

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It was every parent’s nightmare.

On the evening of March 25, Wylie, Texas couple Amber and Taylor Newsom were getting their daughters ready for bed when they heard their dog, Marley, barking. When they went to go check to see what was going on, they were met with a strange man wielding a knife inside their home.

But Marley wasn’t going to let the man hurt her family. The black Labrador Retriever jumped into action — lunging and biting at the man to fight him off.

Marley had him backed into a corner. In the process, Taylor was able to start punching the man in defense. At one point, the man stabbed Marley up to six times in the chest and mouth area. He also stabbed Taylor in the arm and stomach.

“This could’ve been a lot worse,” Taylor said in a video on Facebook. “This could have been deadly.”

But luckily, neither were badly hurt and now Marley is being hailed as a hero for fighting off the man and protecting her family. She loves them so much that she was willing to do anything to save them from the intruder.

The family doesn’t even want to think about what would have happened if their loyal pooch hadn’t been there.

“The story plays out very differently if Marley’s not there,” Taylor Newsom told Fox 4 KDFW.

Amber Newsom could hardly hold back tears when speaking with reporters about Marley and her response to the incident.

“She’s our hero,” Amber said. “If it hadn’t been for her, that guy could’ve gone [into our children’s] rooms or something.”

The intruder, later identified as 53-year-old Thong Pham, fled the scene and police found him hiding alongside a creek nearby. Due to the incident, he’s now charged with animal cruelty and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

“We’re glad he got caught and is going to face a case for what he did to our dog,” Taylor said. “She’s always been protective… so it didn’t surprise me that she would bark. But the way she cornered him and held him there and didn’t engage until I did… that was impressive. You’d think she had been trained, but that was pure instinct.”

For now, both Taylor and Marley are recovering from their injuries and both, thankfully, will be fine. The family is surely giving Marley some extra treats and loving for her heroic behavior — something that very well could have saved the lives of her family.

“She seems almost back to normal although she still has her wounds,” Taylor said. “But they seem to be healing well. She’s the sweetest dog and just loves her people.”

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All of us think our dog is the best in the world, all of us share a bond with our animals that goes beyond mere words.

And yet there are few dogs who can match up to Starla, a two-year-old Yorkshire Terrier, at least when it comes to having proven their bravery and devotion to their owners.

According to reports, on Tuesday, March 3, just before 3:00 p.m. local time, two men showed up at a house in South Fulton, Georgia, planning a home invasion. One of them had a gun.

Dion Ewing told WGCL that her niece was home alone at the time, with only Starla for company.

Little did the girl know, however, that danger was approaching. Dion explained that her niece first received an alert on her phone that someone was approaching the house. She then watched as two hooded men attempted to force entry into the house.

“The other partner turned around and started kicking it from the back and he kicked it about two times and then the back came open,” Dion said. “The door came open.”

What the assailants weren’t expecting, however, was the small dog who was about to turn their day upside down. Starla went straight for them, sustaining two gun-shot wounds in the process. Her distraction was enough to give Dion’s niece time to escape through the garage, though.

Dion said: “But as she was running out, the one who had the gun asked the other one if they wanted them to shoot her.”

Fortunately, no more shots were fired. Even so, Starla didn’t let up her attack on the intruders.

“They were chasing her out and the dog was chasing behind them. Even after being shot,” she said.

The offenders made a hasty escape of their own after Starla’s brave intervention, speeding away from the scene.

Starla, meanwhile, is now making a recovery.

Dion said: “This little thing right here. It’s just like a little guard dog. And we are trying to keep her limited on the moving because of where she got injured at. They don’t want her to rip her lacerations. She got shot in her front leg and back leg.”

Details on the crime are light at the moment, with authorities seeking information. Anyone who might know anything is urged to contact South Fulton Police Department.

Thank God for the bravery of this little dog. Starla, you’re a hero!

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