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Meet
Henry, Ashburns Beretta
- by Vicki Brown, staff reporter of
the Wiregrass Farmer.
Henry
has been getting state wide attention ever since he
prevented a burglary attempt on his residence at the
Strickland's Shell Oil Station early last Wednesday
morning, August 10.
Henry
is a 100 pound bulldog and he is credited with not
only stopping a an armed robbery attempt but also
saving the life of the night attendant, Hubert Nipper.
The
attempt occured on Wednesday morning at about 3:30
a.m.when two men entered the station office with sawed-off
shotgun. Henry was aroused as the men entered and
jumped at the first man knocking both to the ground.
Apparently this attack from the huge bulldog was enough
to disorient the robbers as they fled the scene without
harm to Nipper. The Strickland brothers own the dog
and have kept him most of his life at the station
where he has prevented other burglary attempts.
"He
once jumped through a plate glass door in the station
office in his rush to attack a burglar," one
of the brothers said.
Bulldogs
were bred to catch bulls, "They hurl themselves
at the bull and grab at the nose and flip them over
using their weight as leverage."
Henry
once did this with a horse and lost a few teeth in
his effort. But the teeth he had left for last Wednesday's
occurance and teh weight behind those teeth were enough
to chase the robbers away for some thirty miles before
their apprehension by police.
In
overall personality, the almost eleven year old Henry
rates a high score. His daily activities around the
station are generally to relax and enjoy the patrons.
At times the Strickland brothers even let him have
a cigarette.
The
story above was printed in the Wiregrass Farmer.
History
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