An unlikely green hero came to the rescue of a Deer Park woman’s pooch last week.
Nancy Querengesser was walking her dog Sugar in her Red Deer neighbourhood around 11:30 p.m. on Friday.
Revellers dressed for a Halloween party were leaving a house when a larger dog came out of nowhere and pounced on Sugar.
Querengesser said she yelled at the attacker to stop but the dog would not listen. He kept attacking her little Maltese shih tzu.
Her saviour came in the form of a man dressed in a Gumby costume.
Gumby or Jared Havell, 24, successfully managed to get the aggressive dog to let go of the little dog.
Querengesser said Gumby saved Sugar’s life. She called him a brave man with a brave heart.
“She was bleeding behind her eye and her ears,” said Querengesser. “Her right eye was bleeding pretty badly. She looked pretty bad.”
The aggressive dog turned out to be Gumby’s roommate’s pet. Gumby offered to pay for the vet bills or any medication. He even called the next day to offer assistance.
Sugar was treated at home for some minor injuries and is expected to make a full recovery.
“Gumby saved her life,” said Querengesser. “It would have been a lot of worse if he had not of been there and intervened.”
Havell said he is no hero and anyone would have done the same thing in the same situation.