Pooch
Mix
Inducted August 1986
Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Pleas Fortune
Nominated by Dr. Chester Studdard
Pleas Fortune, a Gilmer farmer, had just parked his tractor in a shed in 1981 when it lurched forward as he dismounted, pinning him under one of the drive wheels. His wife could not hear her husband in the shed, but looked up from the house to see their dog Pooch racing toward the house.
“He was leaping great heights and yelping frantically while at the top of each leap,” she said. When she did not follow him to the shed, the dog turned back to the house and persisted until she followed him and found her husband.
The family and their physician say Fortune’s injuries would have been more extensive had the dog not have brought help so quickly.
