Dog Wakes Family at Midnight After Sensing Deadly Carbon Monoxide Leak
When a family pet starts to behave oddly, it can be concerning. Are they sick? Did they get into something they shouldn’t have? Are they trying to tell you something? The latter turned out to be true for a Siberian…
When a family pet starts to behave oddly, it can be concerning. Are they sick? Did they get into something they shouldn’t have? Are they trying to tell you something?
The latter turned out to be true for a Siberian husky/coonhound mix named Roxy from Ankeny, Iowa.
Owner Brad Harbert told WOWK-TV that Roxy is usually “mild-mannered,” but on Dec. 13 she was going berserk in the middle of the night.
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“I could tell something was up with Roxy,” Harbert recalled. “She just was jumping off my bed, jumping back up on the bed.”
Once Harbert really woke up, he realized something was wrong.
“When I started to kinda come to, I was hearing an alarm, and it wasn’t the smoke alarm,” he said. “So I jumped out of bed. Right when I did, Roxy came out to the hallway, and she scratched Jaxon’s door to see if he was okay, and his door was closed.
“But I grabbed the detector and found out, sure enough, on the front, it says that if it chirps four times … there’s active carbon monoxide in the house.”
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Harbert quickly woke his son, Jaxon, and his father, and all four immediately went outside. Harbert called 911, and the fire department was soon there.