Dog alerts family to dangerous gas leak

Edmonton’s latest hero saved her family’s life with her own two paws, and a good nose. Luna, a six-year-old Husky, alerted her owner, Jenny Conarroe and her family to a gas leak at their home in Millwoods. Late on Wednesday night, Conarroe let the dog out for a last run, and was horrified when she returned covered in thick mud.

“She was just filthy, we had to hose her down,” said Conarroe, who admitted she felt it was too dark to check out the source of the mud that night. Conarroe and her husband Ryan waited until the following evening to investigate the backyard and what they found shocked them. “She had dug a huge hole, probably three feet by four feet, and a puddle had formed overnight, and it was bubbling,” said Connaroe.

After discussing the situation with a neighbor, the couple decided the phenomenon was probably gas related and promptly phoned Atco Gas. Less than 10 minutes later a gas engineer arrived at the home and confirmed the leak. “She must have smelled it, and if she hadn’t started digging we probably wouldn’t even have noticed it even standing right there,” she said.

Gas had been spewing up from a dislodged pipe, a dangerous situation for the couple and their six children had it gone unnoticed. “I don’t even want to think what would have happened if she hadn’t found it. We have six kids, all between three years old and 16,” said Conarroe. “The kids are calling her a hero, and she is.”