Retired nurse, impaired terrier give each other a second chance

Retired nurse, impaired terrier give each other a second chance
Retired nurse, impaired terrier give each other a second chance
A dog with multiple disabilities improves with care, then repays her owner when a rattler appears in the woman's path
Friday, July 22, 2005
KATY MULDOON

Joy Stamm can see fine when she stares straight ahead. But looking down, near her feet, a blind spot obscures Stamm's vision.

So as she pushed through the back door of her Southern Oregon home on a mid-July Monday, the 70-year-old retired nurse had no idea she was about to step on a rattlesnake.

But Annabelle did."