Lou the mule alerts Tenn. woman to house on fire
AP – In this image from video from WTVF – NewsChannel 5, Lou the mule is shown in McMinnville, Tenn. Lou …McMINNVILLE, Tenn. – Lou the mule brayed his way into his owner’s heart with a New Year’s warning that her rural Tennessee home was on fire.
Jolene Solomon says the mule saved her life by alerting her to the attic blaze so that she could get out of the house before it burned down.
The Southern Standard in McMinnville reported Solomon had just finished supper on New Year’s Day when Lou’s braying and acting up got her attention. The 63-year-old — who lives alone — stepped outside and saw the fire.
The farm house in south-central Tennessee built by Solomon’s grandfather was gutted. Solomon is staying with family while she plans to rebuild.
Solomon said her father bought Lou years ago to help her and her late sister, Blue, around the farm.
I just saw this while checking my e-mail. It was on Yahoo news. The picture was up and the first thing I thought to myself was “they must have busted a rescue”. Nope. This mule is a HERO! I hope that the camera angle was just bad or something and that really he has a nice shinny coat and the ribs are an optical illusion. I am thinking that is a negative though. It is wonderful that he did and I hope the people reward him by taking care of him in the future.
*ahem* I dont think the camera angle could make a fat backbone appear to stick up like that does….
He’s skinny and behind barbed wire! Awesome. :[
A smarter mule would have let the house burn, then he could have been rescued and given some food. I guess that’s mean but an animal as good as that should be rewarded, but I doubt he will be though, they’ll probably sell him to auction now that no one is living in the house and there to (and I use this term lightly) care for him.
I second what Greyhorsematters said!! The old battleax!!