A puppy named Bonita is credited with alerting a Spokane Valley family to a fire early Monday that heavily damaged their apartment complex. Bonita started barking around 9 a.m. when a row of garages at the Broadway Square Apartments, 11910 E. Broadway Ave., caught fire. The racket alerted the dog’s owner, Tara Peters, who was at home with her 4-year-old son, Anthony. Peters said the fire jumped from the garages and tore through the attic of her family’s second-floor apartment. She, her son and Bonita escaped unharmed. “I thought we were going to lose everything,” Peters said/Chad Sokol, SR. More here.

Question: Would you trust your dog to wake you up if an emergency occurred -- or someone was trying to break into your house?