PHOENIX - "Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy — a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.

And it's not the first time Buddy has been there for owner Joe Stalnaker, a police officer said Sunday.

On a recording of the 911 call Wednesday, Buddy is heard whimpering and barking after the dispatcher answers and repeatedly asks if the caller needs help.

"Hello, this is 911. Hello , Can you hear me? Is there somebody there you can give the phone to," says the dispatcher, Chris Scott.

Police were sent to Stalnaker's home, and after about three minutes Buddy is heard barking loudly when the officers arrived.

Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said Stalnaker spent two days in a hospital and recovered from the seizure.

"It's pretty incredible," Clark said. "Even the veteran dispatchers — they haven't heard of anything like this."

Clark said police are dispatched whenever 911 is called, but that Stalnaker's address was flagged in Scottsdale's system with a notification that a trained assistance dog could call 911 when the owner was incapacitated.

Clark said Stalnaker adopted Buddy at the age of 8 weeks from Michigan-based Paws with a Cause, which trains assistance dogs, and trained him to get the phone if he began to have seizure symptoms. Buddy, now 18 months old, is able press programmed buttons until a 911 operator is on the line, Clark said.

Clark said Buddy has made two other 911 calls when Stalnaker was having seizures.

He said Stalnaker's seizures are the result of a head injury he suffered about 10 years ago during a military training exercise.

Stalnaker was not listed in the phone book, and he did not immediately respond to a request through police for an interview.

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Our Nigerian Ekuke dey scramble for shit all over the place. Do they train dogs this way in Nigeria ?

uhm. . . NIcE!
[size=3pt]soon we'll hear dat a dog is running 4 U.S president [/size] . .

yeah, I also read it from yahoo news

Can a Naija Dog be trained to do this ? I dont think so, when they are not eating good food.

wtf does this story have to do with Nigeria? You guys make it seem like it's every dog in America that can dial 911, smart-ass and dumb-ass dogs are not limited by geographic locations!!. . .

Raymond88:

wtf does this story have to do with Nigeria? You guys make it seem like it's every dog in America that can dial 911, smart-ass and dumb-ass dogs are not limited by geographic locations!!. . .

Atleast the trainers did a very good job. Here's the only thing they train dogs to do is to sit, back in the cage, roll over, stop. But we are talking about a life saving dog who was trained to do so. We dont have life saving dogs here in nigeria. Thats too bad. I do have a dog and told a train to train him to some certains, he said he can't.

igbsam:

We don't have life saving dogs here in nigeria. Thats too bad. I do have a dog and told a train to train him to some certains, he said he can't.

Have you been to ALL parts of Nigeria to know that we don't have life saving dogs? and what the hell are life saving dogs anyway? what about the dogs that scare assasins away. . .that could be considered life saving?

dos this issue about dog reli matters. . do u two have 2 ague about it 

Of course it matters, the issue about life saving dogs is a matter of life and death, the very core of mans existence!!

sima:


dos this issue about dog reli matters. . do u two have 2 ague about it

It matters alot. When oyinbo dey train dog to save life, some people dey find dog wey dem go chop.

Ow boy!!

ehmmm,  . . . na u two know
am out of here PEaCE!

is there any distress number to call in th first place,

police here dont respond to distress calls from humans, na dog dem go com ansa?

Even though a Nigeria dog is trained to do so,the dog will call 911 a thousand times before getting a response and this is because of bad network.Maybe mtn will tell you that this number is a wrong number(maybe before 911 respond in Nigeria,the owner of the dog is already dead).Over there,there telecommunication network is greatly fast.Immediately you dial a number,it rings.