My doberman Cleo jumped on me while I was asleep, so I knew instantly something was up, so fearing the worst I picked up my daughters baseball bat…which was about 18 inches long and made of sponge..I stood for a second trying to listen but my dog was panting..loudly.. so I kinda had to go see, she led me into the garden, it was dark in the corner where my security lighting illuminated something moving..my dobie barked at me..and sort of led me toward the noise she was hearing but I wasn’t, I was trying to hush my dobie but she was having none of it..Bark! Bark! She stopped near the fence that divides my neighbour and it was then I saw a hedgehog it’s back leg was stuck firmly in the wire I use to prevent next doors cat from crapping in my garden..my adorable hound barked in my face and pawed at the ground where the hog was trapped..I believe at that point man and canine spoke the same language😊 I managed to release the hog and Cleo licked my face and was off..leaving me in the garden. I got back in to a silent house, the dobie was asleep on her bed like it was nothing..I spent that morning at work bleary eyed and in need of some sleep..the scary part was realising that even animals have a sense of empathy..my dobie heard another animal in distress and because she doesn’t have opposable thumbs she came to me..😊
My dobie is a rescue, she knows the meaning of fear and empathy..