A Fredericton woman says a dog she rescued from the SPCA actually ended up saving her after it went for help while she was having a life-threatening seizure.
Eva Hachey says she knew the Chihuahua mix was the dog for her when she picked him up at the Fredericton SPCA.
“He started kissing me right away and I just cried,” says Hachey. “He accepted me. It was a match right there.”
Hachey says she and Bruno bonded instantly, and that bond would save her life.
“I thought I fell asleep. Woke up and there’s a whole bunch of paramedics in my living room and I said, ‘What are you doing here?’ And they said, ‘You had a seizure.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I fell asleep.’ And my daughter said, ‘No, you had a seizure.’”
Hachey’s daughter, Angel Hutchinson, says she’s a deep sleeper, but she awoke to find Bruno nipping at her fingers.
“I literally sleep like the dead. You can’t wake me,” she says. “He was howling and crying and whining and dancing and I knew something was wrong so I raced towards my grandmother’s bedroom because I thought it was her and turned out it was my mother having a seizure on her chair.”
It turns out Hachey had a ruptured brain aneurysm.
“I was very touch and go and they actually said I had a 95 per cent chance of not surviving,” she says. “If it wasn’t for Bruno, he’s the one who saved me.”
Hachey says she’s sharing her story because she wants people to give rescue animals like Bruno an opportunity for life outside a shelter.
“There are a lot of animals out there who need a loving home. They may not all have a Bruno, but the only reward we can get and give is love.”
With files from CTV Atlantic's Nick Moore
