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Roselle (March 12, 1998 – June 26, 2011) was born in San Rafael, California, on March 12, 1998, at the Guide Dogs for the Blind. She was moved to Santa Barbara, California, to be raised by Kay and Ted Stern. After this she was returned to Guide Dogs for the Blind so that she could be trained as a guide dog.[sup][4][/sup]  Roselle and her owner, Michael Hingson, first met on November 22, 1999. She was Hingson's fifth guide dog.[sup][5][/sup]

Roselle was asleep under her owner's desk on the 78th floor in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center  when the attack commenced. She was awoken by the plane impacting some fifteen floors above them.[sup][3][/sup]  Roselle calmly led Hingson to stairwell B, despite the smoke, confusion and noise surrounding her.[sup][6][/sup]

She led her owner and 30 other people down 1,463 steps out of the tower. After descending over half the distance, they passed the firemen  who were heading up, who Roselle stopped to greet.[sup][7][/sup]  The descent took just over an hour. Just after they exited the tower, Tower 2 collapsed, sending debris flying.[sup][8][/sup]  Hingson later said, "While everyone ran in panic, Roselle remained totally focused on her job, while debris fell around us, and even hit us, Roselle stayed calm."[sup][9][/sup]  Once clear, Roselle led her owner to the safety of a subway station,[sup][9][/sup]  where they helped a woman who had been blinded by falling debris.

Once they arrived home, Roselle immediately began playing with her retired guide dog predecessor, Linnie, as if nothing important had happened.[sup][10][/sup]
[h2]SALTY[/h2]
Salty (December 12, 1996 – March 28, 2008) was trained as a guide dog  in early 1998 by Guiding Eyes for the Blind  in Yorktown Heights, New York.[sup][1][/sup]  Part of his training included taking trips on the New York City Subway  and getting used to traffic in the Bronx. Omar Rivera was introduced to Salty by his instructor, Caroline McCabe-Sandler.[sup][1][/sup]

When the attacks occurred on September 11, Salty and his owner, Omar Rivera, found themselves on the 71st floor.[sup][2][/sup]  Rivera was working at the headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. After refusing to leave Rivera's side, Salty and Rivera's supervisor, Donna Enright, led him to safety.[sup][3][/sup]  About halfway down, a co-worker, trying to help, tried to take Salty's lead but the dog refused to leave Omar.
 


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Anybody have that video of the dog that was SO excited about his owner coming back from duty?

The feels, brahs... The feels...
 
Dogs do > other pets .

One day I went too one of my OGs house in fish town philadelphia pa, they wanted to get whammed up so needless too say I knew some bs was gonna happen.... So we get the water, smoke it, and I'm just sitting there playing with the pitbull he had, I'm a dog lover. So neways were walking down the street, mind you I'm from jersey and these fish town bols was like wtf y'all lookin at ... Well we wasn't really lookin at em we was jus hammered, needless to say they throw bottles at us, so it's 12 of them, me my boy and his to old heads. We start brawlin and I see fist commin at my face from every direction...all I could do was cover up.. I'm gettin stomped out. the pit I was playin with a hour before gets loose and starts attacking my attackers, they skatter. Dog saved my life. Frfr. This was like 4 years ago but too this day I still play with random dogs, you never kno when you gon need em.

Off topic kinda just thought I would share that dog story as it popped in my head
 
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