PDSA Certificate for Animal Bravery or Devotion
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| Awarded for | Animal gallantry and devotion to duty |
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| First awarded | 2001 |
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The PDSA Certificate for Animal Bravery or Devotion is a former animal bravery award that acknowledged the extraordinary bravery and devotion to duty of animals.[1] It was created by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in 2001,[2] and discontinued some time after 2011. As of 2011, all of the recipients have been dogs except for Dotty, a donkey.[2]
Partial list of recipients[edit]
| * | Awarded posthumously |
| Date of award |
Recipient | Notes | Date of incident |
Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Toby | A black Labrador Retriever from Lancashire who was stabbed four times in the chest and legs by an armed burglar, but still successfully chased him from the property. | June 2007 | [3] |
| May 2009 | Wicker | A pet German Shepherd cross who aided his owner's son when he had an epileptic fit and fetched help. | February 2006 | [4] |
| November 2010 | Orlando | A Miniature Schnauzer who attracted attention to his elderly owner when she slipped and fell in her garden late one evening. | October 2007 | [5] |
| April 2011 | Dotty | A donkey that came to the aid of her stablemate, a sheep, when it was attacked by a pit bull. | April 2009 | [2] |
| April 2011* | Smoky | A Yorkshire Terrier army mascot from World War II that was the first therapy dog on record, and pulled communication cables through a seventy foot long drainage culvert under a recently captured airstrip. | January 1945 | [6] |
| June 2011 | Brin | A stray dog from Helmand Province Afghanistan who accompanied British troops on patrol for IED devices. | May 2010 | [7] |
| May 2011 | Piper | A Labrador Retriever guide dog that defended his blind owner when she was attacked, before walking her home while injured. | June 2010 | [8] |
| December 2011 | Peggy | A Border Collie cross who barked to wake up her owner to alert her to a house fire. | March 2011 | [9] |
See also[edit]
- PDSA Gold Medal
- The Dickin Medal, an award administered by the PDSA to acknowledge acts of outstanding bravery by animals serving with military forces; considered the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
References[edit]
- ↑ "PDSA Report and Accounts 2009" (PDF). Charity Commission. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Brave donkey honoured for saving sheep from dog attack". PDSA. 18 November 2010.
- ↑ "Dog honoured for tackling burglar". BBC News. 18 April 2009.
- ↑ "Brave dog Wicker receives a PDSA Certificate for her life-saving action". PDSA. 20 May 2009.
- ↑ "Hero dog Orlando is honoured for his life-saving devotion". PDSA. 18 November 2010.
- ↑ "Bill Wynne & Smoky". PDSA. YorkshireTerrier.no. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- ↑ "Brin the Afghanistan Bomb Dog Gets New Life". PDSA. 18 May 2011.
- ↑ "Hero dog Orlando is honoured for his life-saving devotion". PDSA. 29 September 2010.
- ↑ "Faithful dog Peggy is honoured by PDSA for her bravery in a house fire". PDSA. 8 December 2011.
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