The idea was that we would find him – and it was intended that he would do what he did. The idea may make it feel better, ” says Laura Martinez to the Washington Post.
almost three years ago, she found and her family a stray pyrenéerhund next to a highway in Texas, USA. The crowd was the puppy had mange and the ankle was broken.
the dog’s chances to survive, but the family refused to let kill it. They all saw something special in the pup and decided to instead take care of it.
the Dog named Zero, after a character in Tim burton’s movie ”The Nightmare Before Christmas”. From having been under the weather as a puppy was Zero all healthier, and in time the family started calling him ”Zero the Hero”.
That name would prove to be more appropriate at a birthday celebration a couple of weeks ago. Laura Martinez daughter turned twelve, and the house was full of young people. Everything was fine and dandy until a 17-year-old boy who was a friend of the family showed up.
Laura Martinez accused the boy of stealing money and jewelry from her, and she asked him to leave the party. Instead he beat her in the face. One of laura’s sons began to fight back, whereupon the 17-year-old pulled out a gun. According to Laura Martinez fired 17-year-old at least nine shots.
“I can honestly say that there is no chance that we would be today if it weren’t for Zero,” says Laura Martinez.
the Dog came flying towards the young shooter and prevented him from aiming properly. One of laura’s sons got hit in the foot, her stepdaughter was hit twice in the lower back, and Laura herself was shot in the leg, but according to her, managed to 17-year-old never hit any of the members of the family above the waist thanks to Zero. The heroic dog jumped against the shooter when the new bullets were on the road, and was himself hit in the chest, ear and stomach.
was finally arrested and sentenced. Zero’s life went, however, not to save it this time. After the shooting took one of laura’s sons and a neighbor dog to the vet, where it was found that he must be killed.
Laura, himself, could not be with, she had to get treatment for their own injuries. Two weeks later, counts the she the costs of the event resulted in: hospital bills, future surgeries and loss of to be able to work. She collects money to cover the damage and her family are still trying to recover after hurricane Harvey, which caused flooding in their home for a year and a half ago.
But the greatest loss will always be Zero, ” she says. The dog, however, is immortalized in the family garden, in the form of signs with the text: ”Zero is our hero.”
