laura_seabrook | Dog Nearly Dies to Save Kittens (Reply)

Just saw a segment on this on the ABC news, so I couldn't resist quoting it. From Yahoo News:

Fire-fighters in Victoria have rescued a family, their dog and four kittens from a house fire in Melbourne's west overnight.

A 37-year-old woman and her two daughters aged five and 11, and her 18-year-old son were helped from the burning home at Seddon, just before nine last night.
But what the fire-fighters found when they returned inside the house could see one k-9 nominated for a bravery award.
When Mick and Craig - the fire-fighters interviewed on Sunrise today - re-entered the burning house, they found a dog lying on a bed beside a box of kittens.
The dog was unconscious and had to be revived with oxygen.
It appeared to the fire-fighters that the dog had refused to leave the kittens and would rather perish with them than save himself.
The family agreed, saying there was no way the dog would leave the week-old kittens.

Remarkably, this isn't Leo's first brush with death - he was once run over by a car but managed to pull through.
The incident is being used a reminder for families to ensure smoke alarms are working, as fire-fighters could not find any working alarms in the house.