Dog honoured for tackling burglar
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Dog honoured for tackling burglar
A Labrador who fought to protect its owners from a knife-wielding burglar has been honoured for his bravery.
Toby was stabbed four times in the chest and legs by the intruder but still managed to chase him out.
The Morton family, from Barnoldswick in Lancashire, had been staying at Leconfield Barracks in East Yorkshire.
They awoke to find their pet in a pool of blood. But the eight-month-old survived and has been awarded by the animal charity, PDSA.
The armed burglar, who attacked Toby with three knives taken from the kitchen, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for the offence.
Toby suffered a punctured lung in the attack, in June 2007, as he fought to stop the offender going upstairs to the sleeping family.
After succeeding in chasing the offender out of the building Toby then woke his owner, Jonathan Morton, by barking.
“ Had it not been for Toby’s determined barking and lunging at the intruder, Mr Morton would not have been aware of the threat to his family. ”
Chris Heaps, PDSA deputy chairman
Mr Morton and his wife Samantha praised their pet’s actions.
He said: “Toby is our hero. I dread to think what could have happened if he had not intervened that night.”
The Labrador has been presented with the PDSA Certificate for Animal Bravery by the charity’s senior deputy chairman Chris Heaps.
He said: “Had it not been for Toby’s determined barking and lunging at the intruder, Mr Morton would not have been aware of the threat to his family.
“Toby is indeed a worthy recipient of the PDSA Certificate for Animal Bravery.”
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Hooray for Sir Tobias! Just an eight month old puppy yet so brave.
Amazing!! and mine would have licked the burglar all over and given him free access to help himself to anything in the house
My Z is a white lab but so not the agressive type 
Would probably have wagged his tail in greeting as well! I know what you mean-ours was just like that too.
I LOVE labradors. I had a boxer growing up – the kindest, gentlest dog imaginable, but with the face of a monster. People took one look at him and fled – which often served us well. Wandering vendors and holy men refused to stop by the house with the fierce “tiger dog”.