July 20, 2026 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. And now
I've got an amazing news story about a very brave
pet dog. This country, we are a country of dog lovers.
I remember I once every couple of months, I try
and read a book I wouldn't normally read when I
(00:41):
moved here, and I was like really trying to get
to understand Australia. I read a lot of books and
one that I gave up halfway through it was like,
that's enough Kelpie chat for now. It was the whole
book about It was something like the history of the
dog that made Australia Kelpie dogs.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We're very proud of that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You love those kelpies, and entire book about the history
of kelpies. Halfway through I got enough. I don't need
any more kelpie knowledge. I'm up to speed with the Kelpies.
I get it with very good, trustworthy dogs in this country.
You love your pets. And I read the story yesterday.
It really cheered me up. It's nice see good news
stories in the world. And it was about a husky
dog in America. That prayer was a family dog and
(01:19):
it protected over the weekend a six year old boy
from a raging bear got in the way of it.
Wowble ran husky is a big dog, but it's not
as big and fronacious as a bear, A rampaging, raging bear. Incredible.
It's now getting honors like state honors in Connecticut for Bella,
(01:41):
this beautiful looking husky.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I love.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Some state senator is hosting an awards dude this Friday
to give it state honors. So Bella the husky mix, Yes,
I don't know. Does it get the freedom of the city?
And so I think in Australia people must have stories
right of brave dogs. I doubt they're going to be
cats that you don't get often get a new store
(02:07):
about a cat saving its owners life or you know,
calling Triple zero where it had a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Dogs you do, don't they know? They start?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But they trained them, don't They just to smell heart
attacks or when people are having seizures of that. The
cat could be trained like that, but it wouldn't be
bothered to help you.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Do you think your cat Fat Larry would save you
in an emergency? No.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I think he hopes any day now I'm dropping down
and if it has, he will start to eat me immediately.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Even if I just tripped and fall in. Larry does
not death.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'm not their mad yet, Larry, wait your turn like
all those other vultures aark, my children. I think that
actually there should be Australian of the Year awards for
brave pets.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
This like a.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Genuine like an awards for brave and courageous pets that
we celebrate and they come up on date, they get
a trait to some sort of pigs there.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
They love love the pigs there. It's not just dogs whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
If there are brave cats or parrots or canaries or yeah,
I don't know what a snake could do. Yees.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Snakes tend to be on the On the other side,
it's nobody.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
They're they're they're they're they're bad in the villain.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They are that the villain anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And I'm going to call this and I want to
be that the show that really does recognize the brave
pets of Australia PO Australian.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Of the Year.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Thank you now once more. In case you're just going
through a tunnel, deer listener. I'm going to call this
poor Australian of the Year because Australian of the Year
got their little paws and the award is the Golden Paws.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yes they get.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
All right, So lines are open right now for the
first ever really kind of contenders. I need to hear
about brave pets stories dogs cats. I know the RSPCA
in Australia has the Purple Cross Award where they actually
do recognize an award brave Pets, but I think between
(04:10):
nineteen ninety three and two thousand and more now they've
only ever given ten away. You've really really got to
do something extraordinary. Okay, Yes, they are very very picky.
We're looking for your stories of brave and courageous pets.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Who we got here. We have Annie on the line now.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Good morning, Annie, Good morning, Christian, Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Welcome to the show. Annie. So what is this?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
A cat, dog, parrot, cockatil, a cat? You've got a
brave cat story.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Well, I'll say well, I'll say had all right, yeah,
but this was a number of years ago and I
was working in hotels and pubs at the time, and
you know, said late night that sort of thing. I
got home to my apartment and it was a winter
It was in during winter, and I popped on a
couple of logs on the open fireplace that I had there. Anyway,
(05:02):
you know, I been tied. I went to bed, shut
the door. That was the end of it, you know.
But then I was awoken by this banging at my
door and my bedroom door about could have been like
two or three in the morning by then, and I
sort of went, wow, what you know, and and I
sort of got up blindly, and then I sort of
opened the bedroom door, and I was hit like a
walled smoke, and I was like, yeah, yeah, And your
(05:24):
brain's going why why, It just it just kind of
fat on what's going on? And my cat was mowing
and banging at my bedroom door. And because your brain
is trying to sort of wake up, and and the
thing is, with some fires and smoke, there's a lot
of smoke in the apartment, and you get about say,
maybe five or six inches of like like air at
(05:45):
the ground level. And I looked down and he was banging.
He sort of was banging every door and mowing at me,
and he kept lying down because that's where the air was.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Remember, years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
These were TV advert trying to get down and trying
to tell that's when they and crawled out to get
to safety.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, and the thing, that's it. And I thought, wait,
this is a like I was open. It was amazing, man.
I was thinking how to get out, and the thing
was a really weird thing. When you're in that situation,
because you get totally disoriented, you don't know really you know,
you know, yeah it was, and I'm sort of going,
where was the where was the way to exit? I thought,
you know, in my own place, you know. And and
(06:24):
my cat his then was his name was Mitton. He
was a ginger cat, and he was basically he led
me to the front door.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I said about cats.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
When you said that, I know, when you said that,
I went, oh, no, no, you know. And I haven't
ened double to tell anyone this because I thought, don't
even believe me, you know. But then the Fieries turned up.
You know, I might say, this is before smoke detectors,
all right, so this is like a number of years
ago now, you know, when I was much younger, so
there were no smoke detectors and all that sort of things.
So yeah, so the Fieries turned up and they had to.
(06:58):
They smashed in the front door of the apartment. It
was like what and yeah, and they and my cat,
who I thought would just take off, he hung around
and the fire is actually helped him with some oxygen.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
They got cute little cat masks. Say they have a
little teddy one in the back there.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, they actually had tiny little sort of things, maybe
for kids. I don't know at the time, you know,
And I was like wow, but I couldn't see because
there was smoke in my eyes.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Had an ordea. Were you lucky to be alive?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Actually it was crazy and.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Carbon monoxide poisoning or even just yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Absolutely, But at the time you don't even.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Think of that, you know, You're just like amazing story, Annie,
Thank you a much sharing. I remember a couple of
years ago seeing some fieries. Was up the middle of
the day trying to get a cat out of a tree.
So I pulled over, obviously to watch, and I went
up started and chanted to them, and they looked so
bored and irritated, and I went I didn't know this
happened in real life, And they were like yeah, And
I was like, I thought you dight be busy and
actually goes. Not since smoke alarms came along. They were
(07:57):
really annoyed about smoke alarms. Not since smoke alarms actually
ruined this whole fiery game. You know, nonsense smoke alarms. No, no, sadly,
smoke alarm killed the fires, and sadly now mainly cats
and tobacco shops in Melbourne.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Let's go to Victoria now, Victoria.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Good morning, Hi guys, how are you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
We're good Victoria, Welcome to the show. So you've got
a story about brave pets.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I'm just going to catch the chase. I've got a
heroic stuffy from about fifteen years ago that tackled a
tiger snake that was coming into the kids playroom and
saved three kids.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Wow, what was the name of this awesome stuffy?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Xena the Worry You Princess.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Gosh, I love it. Not on Zena's watch.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
No, and she went worldwide. She was actually in New
Zealand newspaper.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You've made the Wellington Times, You've made it everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So just just YouTube Zena the Worried Prince.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I got to ask who was who was filming it?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I know that Annie came the next day and pulled
the dead tiger snake out and started filming it and
showing the dog walking around.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
In it recreation.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We're going to have to dig this out on our socials.
Hey Victoria, thank you very much for showing story.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Have a good day, mate. Thanks guys, thank you very much.
Christian O'Connell Show go On podcast
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live on the free I Heart app.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. And now
I've got an amazing news story about a very brave
pet dog. This country, we are a country of dog lovers.
I remember I once every couple of months, I try
and read a book I wouldn't normally read when I
(00:41):
moved here, and I was like really trying to get
to understand Australia. I read a lot of books and
one that I gave up halfway through it was like,
that's enough Kelpie chat for now. It was the whole
book about It was something like the history of the
dog that made Australia Kelpie dogs.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We're very proud of that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You love those kelpies, and entire book about the history
of kelpies. Halfway through I got enough. I don't need
any more kelpie knowledge. I'm up to speed with the Kelpies.
I get it with very good, trustworthy dogs in this country.
You love your pets. And I read the story yesterday.
It really cheered me up. It's nice see good news
stories in the world. And it was about a husky
dog in America. That prayer was a family dog and
(01:19):
it protected over the weekend a six year old boy
from a raging bear got in the way of it.
Wowble ran husky is a big dog, but it's not
as big and fronacious as a bear, A rampaging, raging bear. Incredible.
It's now getting honors like state honors in Connecticut for Bella,
(01:41):
this beautiful looking husky.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I love.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Some state senator is hosting an awards dude this Friday
to give it state honors. So Bella the husky mix, Yes,
I don't know. Does it get the freedom of the city?
And so I think in Australia people must have stories
right of brave dogs. I doubt they're going to be
cats that you don't get often get a new store
(02:07):
about a cat saving its owners life or you know,
calling Triple zero where it had a heart attack.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Dogs you do, don't they know? They start?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
But they trained them, don't They just to smell heart
attacks or when people are having seizures of that. The
cat could be trained like that, but it wouldn't be
bothered to help you.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Do you think your cat Fat Larry would save you
in an emergency? No.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I think he hopes any day now I'm dropping down
and if it has, he will start to eat me immediately.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Even if I just tripped and fall in. Larry does
not death.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'm not their mad yet, Larry, wait your turn like
all those other vultures aark, my children. I think that
actually there should be Australian of the Year awards for
brave pets.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
This like a.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Genuine like an awards for brave and courageous pets that
we celebrate and they come up on date, they get
a trait to some sort of pigs there.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
They love love the pigs there. It's not just dogs whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
If there are brave cats or parrots or canaries or yeah,
I don't know what a snake could do. Yees.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Snakes tend to be on the On the other side,
it's nobody.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
They're they're they're they're they're bad in the villain.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They are that the villain anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And I'm going to call this and I want to
be that the show that really does recognize the brave
pets of Australia PO Australian.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Of the Year.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Thank you now once more. In case you're just going
through a tunnel, deer listener. I'm going to call this
poor Australian of the Year because Australian of the Year
got their little paws and the award is the Golden Paws.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yes they get.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
All right, So lines are open right now for the
first ever really kind of contenders. I need to hear
about brave pets stories dogs cats. I know the RSPCA
in Australia has the Purple Cross Award where they actually
do recognize an award brave Pets, but I think between
(04:10):
nineteen ninety three and two thousand and more now they've
only ever given ten away. You've really really got to
do something extraordinary. Okay, Yes, they are very very picky.
We're looking for your stories of brave and courageous pets.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Who we got here. We have Annie on the line now.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Good morning, Annie, Good morning, Christian, Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Welcome to the show. Annie. So what is this?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
A cat, dog, parrot, cockatil, a cat? You've got a
brave cat story.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Well, I'll say well, I'll say had all right, yeah,
but this was a number of years ago and I
was working in hotels and pubs at the time, and
you know, said late night that sort of thing. I
got home to my apartment and it was a winter
It was in during winter, and I popped on a
couple of logs on the open fireplace that I had there. Anyway,
(05:02):
you know, I been tied. I went to bed, shut
the door. That was the end of it, you know.
But then I was awoken by this banging at my
door and my bedroom door about could have been like
two or three in the morning by then, and I
sort of went, wow, what you know, and and I
sort of got up blindly, and then I sort of
opened the bedroom door, and I was hit like a
walled smoke, and I was like, yeah, yeah, And your
(05:24):
brain's going why why, It just it just kind of
fat on what's going on? And my cat was mowing
and banging at my bedroom door. And because your brain
is trying to sort of wake up, and and the
thing is, with some fires and smoke, there's a lot
of smoke in the apartment, and you get about say,
maybe five or six inches of like like air at
(05:45):
the ground level. And I looked down and he was banging.
He sort of was banging every door and mowing at me,
and he kept lying down because that's where the air was.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Remember, years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
These were TV advert trying to get down and trying
to tell that's when they and crawled out to get
to safety.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, and the thing, that's it. And I thought, wait,
this is a like I was open. It was amazing, man.
I was thinking how to get out, and the thing
was a really weird thing. When you're in that situation,
because you get totally disoriented, you don't know really you know,
you know, yeah it was, and I'm sort of going,
where was the where was the way to exit? I thought,
you know, in my own place, you know. And and
(06:24):
my cat his then was his name was Mitton. He
was a ginger cat, and he was basically he led
me to the front door.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I said about cats.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
When you said that, I know, when you said that,
I went, oh, no, no, you know. And I haven't
ened double to tell anyone this because I thought, don't
even believe me, you know. But then the Fieries turned up.
You know, I might say, this is before smoke detectors,
all right, so this is like a number of years
ago now, you know, when I was much younger, so
there were no smoke detectors and all that sort of things.
So yeah, so the Fieries turned up and they had to.
(06:58):
They smashed in the front door of the apartment. It
was like what and yeah, and they and my cat,
who I thought would just take off, he hung around
and the fire is actually helped him with some oxygen.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
They got cute little cat masks. Say they have a
little teddy one in the back there.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, they actually had tiny little sort of things, maybe
for kids. I don't know at the time, you know,
And I was like wow, but I couldn't see because
there was smoke in my eyes.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Had an ordea. Were you lucky to be alive?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Actually it was crazy and.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Carbon monoxide poisoning or even just yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Absolutely, But at the time you don't even.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Think of that, you know, You're just like amazing story, Annie,
Thank you a much sharing. I remember a couple of
years ago seeing some fieries. Was up the middle of
the day trying to get a cat out of a tree.
So I pulled over, obviously to watch, and I went
up started and chanted to them, and they looked so
bored and irritated, and I went I didn't know this
happened in real life, And they were like yeah, And
I was like, I thought you dight be busy and
actually goes. Not since smoke alarms came along. They were
(07:57):
really annoyed about smoke alarms. Not since smoke alarms actually
ruined this whole fiery game. You know, nonsense smoke alarms. No, no, sadly,
smoke alarm killed the fires, and sadly now mainly cats
and tobacco shops in Melbourne.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Let's go to Victoria now, Victoria.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Good morning, Hi guys, how are you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
We're good Victoria, Welcome to the show. So you've got
a story about brave pets.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I'm just going to catch the chase. I've got a
heroic stuffy from about fifteen years ago that tackled a
tiger snake that was coming into the kids playroom and
saved three kids.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Wow, what was the name of this awesome stuffy?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Xena the Worry You Princess.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Gosh, I love it. Not on Zena's watch.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
No, and she went worldwide. She was actually in New
Zealand newspaper.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You've made the Wellington Times, You've made it everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So just just YouTube Zena the Worried Prince.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I got to ask who was who was filming it?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I know that Annie came the next day and pulled
the dead tiger snake out and started filming it and
showing the dog walking around.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
In it recreation.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We're going to have to dig this out on our socials.
Hey Victoria, thank you very much for showing story.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Have a good day, mate. Thanks guys, thank you very much.
Christian O'Connell Show go On podcast
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