He ran out of the house. Ginger had risked her life to attack a man who weighed easily 40 times more than she. But Ginger adored the woman she lived with. The little dog would have done anything to help her. Can you share with us one example of this.
Animals seem to have an exquisite sense of others' vulnerability and illness.
Just the other day I received a story of a dog who befriended a man in his neighborhood. The man was slowly dying of cancer, and the dog seemed to understand his increasing frailty and kept going to visit him and cheer him up. On the very day when the man was about to die, the dog broke through a screen in his house and ran down the street to the man's house to be with him in his last hours. The dog somehow knew that the end was coming and wanted to be with his friend. Everyone in the neighborhood was astounded, but I was not.