A Wisconsin family is hailing their dog a hero after the furry companion was shot in the head during a home invasion.
Levi, a small pit bull, was struck by the bullet when a would-be robber entered the home of Darcy Cherry and her longtime boyfriend, Bob Stenzel on Tuesday night.
Cherry, a property manager for a landlord, and Stenzel, a handyman, told the criminal they didn't have any money or drugs in their 144-year-old house, but he was relentless.
"He said, 'Call your dog off. I'll shoot, I'll shoot,'" Cherry said.
The robber fled and Stenzel called 911. Emergency Veterinary Service responded to the scene.
This wasn't the first traumatic experience Levi had been through.
Ten years later, Cherry said Levi was lured into a van and stolen in broad daylight. A neighbor saw the incident, wrote down the van's license plate number and police stopped the van and rescued Levi the same day.
In June 2014, Levi was hiking with his family when he fell off the edge of a trail that ran along a steep drop. The dog's leg was shattered and had to be amputated.
Cherry said Levi's fall prevented her sons from falling, so she credits the dog with saving her family twice.
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