It was a Monday,and Khan, a pet dog had joined the family the previous Friday. He had already decided that two-year-old Charlotte was his No.1 girl. The dog had seldom left her side since arriving at his new home.
Khan was next to Charlotte when Catherine took her into the garden for some fresh air. "I was just in the house doing boring mother things and Charlotte wanted to go outside and run around," she says. "We were just walking around the garden looking at flowers and all that good stuff. Khan was with her."
Charlotte was soon tired of playing in the garden and then went to play the padlock on the gate. "She was beating the padlock and it was banging on the gate," Catherine recalls. She thought Khan, who was naturally right next to Charlotte, might be disturbed by the loud noise, but he seemed undisturbed by it. That was until, entirely without warning, he became very upset indeed.
"Khan suddenly started making this noise from his chest, this growl(怒吼)," she says. "His whole chest puffed up, his hair stood up, and he lowered his head. He continued to make this growl."
As Catherine watched, Khan seemed to double in size. "He kept trying to push her. I was right next to Charlotte—no more than a metre away and I thought, 'He's going to hurt her'. His chest was bigger than he was long," she says.
Time seemed to slow down as Catherine rushed desperately to save her daughter. But Khan got to Charlotte first. He grabbed her by the back of her clothes and threw her over his shoulder into the garden. "I turned and looked and she was just sitting there in a pile of grass." Still not certain whether Khan's strange behaviour was some sort of attack on her child, Catherine raced to pick up Charlotte, who was completely unharmed, and take her inside to safety. Just as she turned to run into the house, Catherine saw a big brown snake bite Khan right in the chest and slid away quickly.
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Khan screamed in pain and at the same moment, Catherine understood all.
Khan needed immediate medical help, so Catherine called a vet in no time.