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Man's Best Friend
« on: Aug 8^th, 2003, 8:48am »

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Dog is man's best friend after saving dying vagabond in Scotland

LONDON (AFP) - A vagabond who lay dying in a deserted Scottish farm has been saved by a sheepdog who found his plea for help in a message in a bottle.

Vagabond Robert Sinclair, 55, had fallen ill while sleeping rough and had not eaten or drunk for a week when a Border Collie from a neighbouring farm came to his rescue, the dog's owner said Thursday.

The 15-month-old sheepdog, named Ben, took the plastic water bottle to his master, Brian Besler, who in turn alerted police.

"Ben found this bottle and came running up to me with it in his mouth," Besler said.

"There was a message in it asking for help, it said Robert had been lying there for more than two weeks. He was ill, he couldn't breathe right, his chest was clogged up and he'd run out of food and water."

"I thought it was a wind-up until I saw the name -- Robert's well-known round here as a bit of a recluse," Besler added.

The cry for help had been scribbled on a piece of cardboard and inserted in to an old plastic water bottle before being found by Ben on Monday.

Sinclair, who suffers from asthma, has lived wild in the Stirlingshire countryside for 27 years and lay at the deserted farm, near Falkirk, central Scotland, after an attack caused by his condition two weeks ago.

Sinclair was discharged from hospital Thursday after making a full recovery.

"This is exceptional, it's very unusual for someone to be found in this way -- a message in a bottle," local Inspector Alistair Tate said.

"It was really a great stroke of luck for Robert Sinclair that the dog found his note and Mr Besler came looking or we would be looking at a very different outcome."

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« Reply #1 on: Aug 8^th, 2003, 11:47am »

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awwwwwwwwwww

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« Reply #2 on: Aug 8^th, 2003, 12:22pm »

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I like stories like this one. Sad, but in a good way.

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« Reply #3 on: Aug 11^th, 2003, 10:53am »

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What a beautiful story Dar! Thank you for this.

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