Rescued by a rescue ‘MY DOG SAVED MY LIFE!’
Aug 21, 2022
4 minutes
Words: Hayley Barnett.
Pictures: Brylee Mills. Hair & makeup: Desiree Osterman.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the following is the plot of a feel-good family movie. It has excitement, broken bones and a dramatic rescue at the paws of an animal nobody wanted. Even dog trainer Jenn Patten is still in disbelief by what happened and she’s the one who was rescued.
The Mount Maunganui woman, 51, marvels, “I’ve worked with animals all my life and, yes, I’ve had dogs alert me to snakes in Australia or to danger, but to actually do something dramatic like this… I still don’t believe it myself.”
Having worked with all sorts of canines for more than 25 years, Jenn now runs her own
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