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Colton Praill report for CTV News that on March 16, 2021, Haley Moore was walking her 1½-year-old dog, Clover, a Maremma sheepdog mix, in their Stittsville neighborhood in Ottawa, Canada, when she collapsed to the ground in a seizure.

Moore said, “All I remember is waking up in the ambulance and being really confused; just like what is going on.”

But a neighbor’s security camera captured what happened.

The video shows Clover springing into action.

First, Clover checked on her human to determine that Haley was in a medical emergency.

Then, Clover watched as a car passed by.

Moments later, a second vehicle approached –a truck. This time, Clover freed her leash from Haley’s grasp, then risked her own safety by standing in front of the truck, forcing the driver to stop.

The driver, 21-year-old Dryden Oatway, quickly got out of his truck to help the fallen Haley, watched closely by Clover.

Dryden said: “It was really impressive, the dog actually blocked my way. She kind of backed into the road to block my truck. The whole time she was backing down the street she had eyes on Hailey; didn’t look away from her. She kept her distance from me but made sure her owner was okay and that was amazing.”

Dryden tried to get help from a nearby neighbor before returning to tend to Moore.

Clover then caught the attention of another driver, Danielle Pilon, who stopped to help.

Pilon said, “Immediately I just stopped and I jumped out of the Jeep and I asked Dryden if everything was okay and he was like, ‘I don’t know, she fell.'”

It was then that Clover ran back home to get more help.

Pilon said: “You could tell she [Clover] didn’t want to leave her [Haley] even when we were with her but I think it just came to her that she was like ‘I need to go home to let them know she needs help.'”

By the time Clover and her family returned to the scene, Haley was in an ambulance being treated by paramedics.

Haley’s father, Randall Moore, said: “When I got a knock on the door from the neighbors, they were frantic and our dog Clover was barking like crazy. To see my daughter, face full of mud, and she was incoherent, wasn’t sure where she was, it was just terrifying, it really was.”

Thankfully, Haley was okay. The family isn’t sure what caused the sudden seizure, but Haley says she’s comforted by the fact that she’ll have her dog there to protect her: “If this ends up happening again, I feel 10 times safer and I know she will be there for me. You know how good animals are and she’s a really amazing dog and I love her to death.”

Clover got a big steak as a reward. 🙂

Randall Moore said: “[My wife] Diane comes home with a couple of big steaks and I thought ‘Wow, this is great, I’m getting a big steak’ and she said, ‘No, it’s for Clover for doing such a great job.'”

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