Vienna - An Austrian farmer's faithful dog saved his life by running for help after a hay-making machine sliced up the 62-year-old's left foot, police said on Friday.
The farmer was working alone on Thursday except for Tschibsi, his one-year-old Alsatian mixed breed, and could have bled to death without help, police in Upper Austria province said.
Tschibsi ran two kilometres after the farmer's wife as she cycled into town and barked and whined until she came back. The wife called for a medical helicopter that took her husband to hospital, where he was recovering. - Reuters