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A Labrador retriever stabbed several times as he snarled and barked at a burglar has received an award for his bravery.
Toby suffered stab wounds to the chest and legs -- including a punctured lung -- but still kept the intruder from going upstairs to his sleeping family.
Owner Jonathan Morton scrambled downstairs after hearing the commotion. He ran outside where he found his injured dog barking with his paws on the backyard fence as the burglar ran away.
Shortly after, Toby collapsed from the severe stab wounds. The intruder used three kitchen knives to attack the dog, leaving a trail of blood along the carpet and walls.
Toby spent a week at a veterinary hospital and then fully recovered. He was recently awarded the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals’ gold award for bravery.
Morton's family lives in Barnoldswick in Lancashire, England, but they were staying at Leconfield Barracks in East Yorkshire when the burglary happened in June 2007. Toby was eight-months-old at the time. Morton and his wife Samantha and their five-month-old baby Megan, were sleeping upstairs during the break-in.
John Morton told the Daily Mail that Toby "would not hurt a fly and is great with children." Toby was simply defending his turf and his family, Morton said.
Toby still "wakes up at the least little thing," Morton told the Daily Mail.
Sources: the Daily Mail, and BBC.
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