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- 09/17/2011 at 9:12 AM
  lwayne
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  I just saw this on article in the AP: Hero rabbit saves owners!
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/hero-rabbit-saves-owners-house-fire-alaska-025838407.html
  
  It sounds like this bunny had a good life, roaming free in the house? At least enough to jump on its human mom to wake her up.
- 09/17/2011 at 11:09 AM
  bwild
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  I love hearing stories about animals saving their owner’s life!
  ..although I do like them better when the animals live
- 09/17/2011 at 11:21 AM
  peppypoo
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  Agreed with bwild…it is a touching story, but I do hope they at least tried to take the rabbit
- 09/17/2011 at 12:58 PM
  Stickerbunny
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  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4390578.ece that happened in 2008 too, though the rabbit lived then. I sure hope they took the bun outside with them when they fled the house – I tried 6 other news sources and all had the exact same writing, no report on if they tried to save bun or not.
- 09/17/2011 at 9:38 PM
  MimzMum
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  I heard this on the radio the other morning and just cried. Poor bun. I posted it at RU, but forgot to link to it here.
  
  http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/15522287/article-Rabbit-that-woke-owner-when-house-caught-fire-dies-?
  
  I can’t imagine NOT grabbing your bun if it was right there on your chest…but who knows, it may have spooked and run to hide? The owner may have been too confused by the emergency to think clearly enough to grab the bun?
  What is distressing is people who think a rabbit will act like any other animal in a house fire and run out. it won’t. It will most likely freeze. Not all dogs or cats run out either.
  
  This is my worst nightmare; I have the three buns, the three cats and my Yorkie to get out of the house in a fire emergency, not to mention the human members of the family. I think even with each of us carrying a couple furbabies it is going to be a skin of the teeth operation to get us all out safely.
  
  We also live in an area that doesn’t have fire service. Once the house goes up, it’s a goner. >.<
- 09/17/2011 at 10:05 PM
  Monkeybun
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  Yeesh. I’ll stick to cites, where a fire truck is moments away.
- 09/17/2011 at 10:34 PM
  Joyfull_music
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  Posted By Monkeybun on 09/17/2011 10:05 PM
  Yeesh. I’ll stick to cites, where a fire truck is moments away.
  
  Unless they lay all of the firemen off. Recently in a Detroit a little girl died in a house fire due to budget cuts shorting the Detroit Fire Department.
  
  RIP little bunny.
- 09/17/2011 at 10:41 PM
  lwayne
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  Where I grew up (rural) we had a volunteer fire dept.. it was very much a community thing, everyone volunteered (my dad, all the neighbors). You think they would set that up there?
- 09/18/2011 at 5:30 AM
  Stickerbunny
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  Wow, never heard of a place without fire service and I have always lived in the sticks. 😮 Couldn’t imagine that, guess home owners insurance is a good thing to have.
  
  I can’t believe they did leave the poor bunny behind – he fought his instincts to hide when scared, woke his owner and she LEFT him? Grab the bun off your chest, go to your daughters room, wake her up and everyone get out. Sheesh.
- 09/18/2011 at 5:40 AM
  Huckleberry
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  How touching. Good bun! Binky free, little firefighter bun!
  Mimz: It really is a nightmare. Every time there is a bad storm (tornado style storm) I get Huckleberry’s carrying case ready and stick it in an easy-to-reach space. My mom always says that she prays we won’t have a fire or disaster, mostly for Huck’s sake, because she knows how much it would kill me to lose my kiddo.
- 09/18/2011 at 5:41 AM
  Huckleberry
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  How touching. Good bun! Binky free, little firefighter bun!
  Mimz: It really is a nightmare. Every time there is a bad storm (tornado style storm) I get Huckleberry’s carrying case ready and stick it in an easy-to-reach space. My mom always says that she prays we won’t have a fire or disaster, mostly for Huck’s sake, because she knows how much it would kill me to lose my kiddo.
- 09/19/2011 at 4:34 AM
  LittlePuffyTail
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  That is so sad. I would never leave my bunnies or cats behind. Especially sad since he woke up the people…
  
  This is my worst nightmare; I have the three buns, the three cats and my Yorkie to get out of the house in a fire emergency, not to mention the human members of the family. I think even with each of us carrying a couple furbabies it is going to be a skin of the teeth operation to get us all out safely.
  
  Ditto that. I’m super paranoid. I never leave anything on when I go out, like the washer or lights because I’m just so scared. You never know. I very diligently check our smoke alarms as well. We actually live quite near a fire station but I would probably end up getting all the furbabies out before even calling 911.
- 09/19/2011 at 10:59 AM
  LoveChaCha
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  WOW.
  
  I am shocked and really upset that the bunny wasn’t taken also. I would grab Chacha even though I know she HATES IT.
- 09/19/2011 at 11:07 AM
  Stickerbunny
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  My carrier is out in the living room and they’re always locked into smaller areas when I am asleep/not at home so would be pretty easy to grab and… they are so used to me picking them up moving them, Powder tolerates it and just hunkers down like “fine, ok, get it over with” though Stickers would be a bit harder to catch, but when she’s scared she usually comes to me to save her. They both love to go in the carrier so that isn’t an issue either. And the bird is always in a cage when I am not around, so I could just take his cage outside. I wouldn’t dream of leaving the house without my babies if something happened. Only thing I would be worried about is if I wasn’t home and a stranger tried to save them, they hate strangers and always run from them.
- 09/19/2011 at 11:11 AM
  Elrohwen
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  Sweet story, but sad for the poor bunny!
  
  My guess would be that they tried to save the bun, but it died later of smoke inhalation. Or it’s possible that it ran to hide and they couldn’t grab it.
- 09/19/2011 at 2:13 PM
  MimzMum
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  Sadly I think most folks in our particular area would most likely pull up a lawn chair, crack a beer and pull out the marshmallows while a house burned. It is nigh impossible to organize anyone to do anything constructive here.
  
  No insurance agency will do fire insurance in our area. The state will send out fire jumpers when the National Forest burns right down the road, but our burgh would have to be ‘incorporated’ (read taxed to death) to get even a volunteer station placed here. No one in our town is willing to vote that in.
- 09/19/2011 at 7:20 PM
  Stickerbunny
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  Elroh, the link minz posted has more info – “She rushed to get her daughter out of the home, but the rabbit was left behind in the confusion.
  
  Ketchikan Fire Capt. Tracy Mettler tells the Ketchikan Daily News (http://bit.ly/o3T8Sb) pets often find their own way out of a burning building but not this time.
  
  Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Rabbit that woke owner when house caught fire dies”
- 09/20/2011 at 4:20 AM
  LittlePuffyTail
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  “She rushed to get her daughter out of the home, but the rabbit was left behind in the confusion.
  
  That makes me sad and angry.
- 09/20/2011 at 2:52 PM
  Eepster
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  When hurricane Irene hit here, and we were worried about the river across the street flooding if the dam didn’t hold (it did flood, but not on our bend of the river) I put Porky in his little travel cage for the night. Porky spent the night at the foot of my sons bed, so that if we had to get out fast, we could just grab him and go.
  
  I knew that if he was loose in his condo and the water started rising fast, he’d be panicking and impossible to shove into his carrying case quickly. It is really hard to grab a panicked rabbit quickly, they tend to run and hide.
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