
Anyone who
does anything to help a child in his life is a hero. And when they happen to be
animals, the love and respect that one feels get doubled. And these faithful
canines were as courageous as they come when they fought a grim battle for this
little child.
They were
ordinary dogs who showed extraordinary courage. They died unceremoniously, and
perhaps unnoticed by the majority. But here they succeeded and they also
sacrificed. And to that family in whose life they made such a huge difference,
they will forever remain heroes.
These two
heroic dogs, Miley and Moxie, protected a sleeping toddler from a deadly cobra
as it tried to enter the house. They succeeded but one lost his life while the
other was blinded.

As Skye,
aged one slept in her room in the city of Kidapawan in the Philippines, she was
blissfully unaware of the drama taking place outside. It would all have been a
matter of pure conjecture had it not been picked up by the cameras installed
outside their home which captured a tale of selfless heroism and presence of
mind.

The two
dogs launched a concerted attack on the cobra with the older Miley, aged four
being the more aggressive of the two. The young Moxie, the white Dachshund,
first spied the cobra closing in on the child’s room and confronts it. Miley
then comes rushing in.
It is
apparent that alone neither would have succeeded in stopping the snake from
entering the child’s room. They kept dragging the snake away from the room and
simultaneously kept up the attack to finally kill it. It is pertinent to
remember that Miley was bitten at some point but held out till the end. The
same holds for Moxie.
Moxie’s
blindness points to another deadly fact. The snake is certainly the Northern
Philippine Cobra (Naja Phillipinensis), a highly venomous spitting cobra which
targets the eye of its victim and squirts a thin stream of venom from a
distance.

The child’s
father was shocked after watching the footage and overwhelmed at the sacrifice
of the dogs. It was an unbelievable act of courage and sacrifice by the two
young dogs that persevered until the end. All guarding angels are not mythical
creatures with wings. They can be a member of the immediate family, and Miley
and Moxie are as much family to baby Skye as anyone else.
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