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George, a Jack Russell from Manaia, Takanaki, New Zeland has been awarded the highest honour for animals after he fended off two pitbull terriers allowing a group of children to escape from them.

Unfortunately George was badly hurt in the incident, which took place in April 2007, and had to be put to sleep.

Yesterday his owner, Alan Gay, was presented with the PDSA gold medal by New Zelands’s Govenor-General, Anand Stayanand.

Alan paying tribute to his pet said: “He was a brilliant little dog, intelligent. You couldn’t insult him. I’d call him ‘dipstick’ and he wouldn’t have anything to do with me.”

George is the first dog from New Zeland to be so honoured and to put the award in perspective it is the equivalent of the Commonwealth’s highest civilian honour, the George Cross.

Tags: jack russell, pitbulls, posthumous honour for dog

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