A finish carpenter named Greg LeNoir was, briefly, the toast of dog lovers everywhere after saving his pet from the jaws of a shark.
The brief but heroic rescue happened in 2008 in the waters of a marina at Islamorada, FL. LeNoir and his pet rat terrier Jake were swimming when a 5-foot shark snatched the small dog in its jaws.
Some people might have headed rapidly in the other direction, but man of action LeNoir dived at the shark, punching it in the back of its head. He reported that the shark felt hard as concrete. Nevertheless, the shark released the pup, which was riddled with tooth marks, but recovered.
The story of this "dog's best friend" episode appeared just about everywhere, and both man and dog appeared with host Harry Reasoner on the CBS Early Show.
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