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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Nancy Grace honors pet heroes: Animals who save human lives

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Crime never takes a holiday, but Crime Stories does. For this Christmas Day, Nancy Grace talks about how animals help humans -- sometimes even saving lives. Her special guest include Jack Hanna, director emeritus of the famous Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and host of Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild and Wild Countdown, reporter and animal lover Jane Velez-Mitchell, creator of the animal rights website JaneUnchained.com, and two mom's who credit dogs with saving the lives of their children.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We hear about heroes and hero detectives all the time, but our unsung heroes, the ones

0:18.5

we never hear about, are our furry friends.

0:24.1

The heroes pet detectives in heroes and I'm bringing you real live cases today along

0:31.1

with an awesome all-star lineup of a panel.

0:42.8

Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:52.8

Dogs really are man's best friend.

0:56.4

Dogs are our pets and companions.

1:01.9

And we love them even though they often seem unable to do anything more than lie around

1:06.3

and run after sticks.

1:10.0

You can find all kinds of interesting and incredible stories involving dogs saving humans from

1:14.4

disastrous situations.

1:18.9

And awesome all-star lineup of a panel, including Jack Hanna.

1:25.0

We all know Jack Hanna, the director, emeritus, the animal ambassador of the world famous

1:30.6

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the host of Jack Hanna's into the wild and wild countdown.

1:37.7

I mean this guy, I will never forget doing an HLN show and a Larry King show, which

1:44.0

I still have photos of, where Jack would bring on animals.

1:48.9

And I will bring on his zoo all the way to New York City and what a time we had.

1:54.5

The best show ever and as I've always told Jack Hanna, the best witnesses I've ever put

1:59.2

on the stand were dogs.

2:01.5

Also with me, my longtime friend and colleague, Jane Valese Mitchell, reporter and animal lover,

2:09.3

Dory Natal, who has an incredible story of how a dog saved her son.

2:16.7

And Shannon Nehaust also with us with a dramatic story of a life saving animal hero.

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