Top 10 Heroic German Shepherds (2024)

We frequently hear beautiful and touching stories of people saving the dog’s life offering home,family, care and affection. However, what is so unusually touching and attention-grabbingis hearing stories of dogs sacrificing themselves to save people’s lives: their owners andeven strangers. Let us together go through these ten following incredible stories of German Shepherd Dogsputting their whole energy and even risking their own lives, just to save people when theirlives were in risk.

1. Luks Sacrificed His Life to Save The Yugoslav StatesmanJosip Broz Tito

June 1943 – Found in a very dangerous situation by a bomb that fell nearby during “The Battleof the Sutjeska”, the commander of Yugoslav partisans, later to become the Yugoslavcommunist statesman Josip Broz Tito, was saved by his German Shepherd Dog Luks, bysacrificing his life. The story was only revealed in a post-war report.

2. Buddy Led a Police Officer to the Place Where His Owner Was InDanger

April 2010 – Ben asks his German Shepherd Dog named Buddy to ask for help, as suddenlyhis workshop, that was set up inside his house in Alaska, was set on fire. The rest of thestory is amazingly courageous and clever. Buddy runs for help while the same time an areapolice officer takes the information about the fire and heads on that direction. The GPS ofthe police officer unusually stops working (freezes), leaving him with no direction, in themiddle of the road. The police officer, only a few minutes later notices a dog, Buddy, in theside of the road running and trying to catch his attention, as he wanted to tell him “followme to the place”. The police trusted Buddy’s leads, by following him towards the placewhere his owner Ben was in danger. The police officer was shocked when he realized thatthe dog was leading him right to the fire. Due to this heroic act of Buddy, the police officersafely moved Ben from the danger zone and everything got back to normal. Buddy waseven honored for leading Alaska State troopers to fire.

The police officer said: “He wasn’t running from me, but was leading me”he said. I justfelt like I was being led … it’sjust one of those things that we’re thinking on the same pagefor that brief moment.” while his owner declared: “He’s my hero.”

3. Shannon Lorio’s life was saved by a lost German Shepherd crashedwith her Car

March 2010 – This is another amazing heroic story of a German Shepherd dog. ShannonLorio all of a sudden ends up crashing her car and gets injured, ending up with a flow ofblood in her face, displaced by the accident in the back of her truck. The story aboutShannon’s life being saved is very unique, as she got pulled out from the track and movednear the road to ask for help. Shortly a bicyclist notices her and offers the needed help, bysaving her life.

Hear the story revealed by Shannon in the following Heroes Among Us–Hero the Dog!

4. Rambo sacrificed his life by sharing the electrical charge with the owner hit by Lighting

July 2015 – Another incredibly heroic story of a dog trying to save his owner’s life is that ofthe German Shepherd named Rambo. Rambo gave up his life when he saw that his ownerJonathan Hardman – a hiker, was abruptly hit by lightning, as he was climbing up MountBierstadt accompanied by a group of people. As Jonathan ends up unconscious by lightningstruck, the dog touches him to discharge him from electricity.

5. Bruno the Police Dog got Shot Chasing down a Criminal Suspect

March 2014 – The story of Bruno, a police German Shepherd that was chasing a suspecttogether with a police officer in a police mission when he got shot by the suspect is anothertrue happening that affected everybody’s hearts. The Colorado police officer that washelped by Bruno in this mission and many other endangering missions declared that he willadopt Bruno and take care of all of his recovery costs. Thank God Bruno was not killedand he can continue with his heroic job of fighting criminality. Hear the story revealed in the following video.

6. Sasha the Hero Dog Saves a Four-Year Child Milena risking to Drownat the pool

July 2013 – Sasha, another German Shepherd hero revealed one more time how caring andaffected towards people dogs can be. What Sasha did is absolutely unbelievable! Milena, afour-year Argentinian girl got out of her home without her parents noticing it, walked intoneighbor’s backyard – that occurred to have a swimming pool set up and she jumped in.Sasha followed the girl all the way through and started to bark, cry and whine but nobodycould listen to his alerting voices the dog made. Then, as he was convinced that Milena wasdrowning, Sasha jumps into the pool and hold her up – so she could breathe, until she couldbe dragged out of there.

7. Jade Saves the Abandoned Girl’s Life by Founding Her in a Park Bush

November 2013 – What Jade, another hero German Shepherd dog did, touches everyone’sheart. Jade was off the lead as she was walking at the park with her owner Roger and shesuddenly warns her owner leading him in the direction of a dark bush. Roger gets shockedwhen he finds out that the dog actually led him towards a baby bag with a tinny cute babyon it crying like she was asking for help. He immediately informs the police, who took the24 hours old baby and send her to the hospital where she got all the treatment needed todefeat death and grow normally.

8. Bear saved his owner’s life as she suffers fromseizures disease

May 2011 – Bear, the Texas German Shepherd has been awarded as the National Hero Dogfor saving his owners’ life called Debbie, who for 18 years suffered from “seizures disease”caused by a horse-riding accident – a condition caused by abnormal electrical activity,causing rapid and uncontrolled shakes of body, sometimes leading to the epilepsy. Beartakes care of Debbie all the time, as he detects a coming seizure and leans on her legs so shecan sit down and not risk falling. The dog even gets her the regular medicine. But this isanother story that will absolutely touch your heart. Debbie went outside even that the dogtried to stop her as he could sense the upcoming seizure, but she did not listen to hiswarnings, so she ends up having a seizure in the front of her home where she fellunconscious. Bear, as he saw her owner risking her life, went door to door trying to warnneighbors that her owner needed help, and fortunately, a Park Country animal controlofficer was able to recognize dog warnings, so he runs out there and offered Debbie help bysaving her life.

9. Noah takes a bullet to save her owner and her three children

January 2015 – This is one more heroic and sacrificing act of another German Shepherddog. Noah– the dog, went out with his family where his owner Kadon stopped by in a storeto buy a dog collar, while his wife Diondra and three kids stayed in the car in the parkinglot. All of a sudden, an incident occurred in the parking lot where gunfire started betweentwo groups, risking lives of the fourth family members that were waiting in the car. Therest of the story is very brave and sad the same time, as in the hail of the bullets flowingthrough car windows, Noah runs inside the car to save them and there a bullet hits him inthe neck. Diondra said that the bullet was directed to her but it was Noah that took it forher in order to save children and her. The injured Noah then runs after the gunman tryingto catch it, where he later breathes his last breath.

See the news report (with a video of Noah injured, chasing the gunman taken by videosurveillance of the store).

10. Ape the FBI Hero Dog Who Got Shoot in a Frontline Mission

March 2013 – The heroic act of the FBI dog named Ape is to be remembered. The FBI waschasing after the gunman Kurt Myers who killed four people in two different towns of NewYork, and finally, he holed up in an abandoned bar where a tensed standoff between police,FBI and the gunman took place. Abe was the first FBI agent to get in with a camera outfittedso the police could have a clear view of what was happening inside, and there is when hegets shut on the chest from the criminal. Due to this camera investigation, police reachedto kill the gunman leaving the others safe. As Ape was badly injured, he cannot serveanymore as an FBI agent but he has been honored at the FBI’s Headquarters, Virginia, USA.

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