Houssein Hamze was sleeping in his home one night when he woke up to the sound of a dog barking. Alarmed, he got up to check on the dog, his first rescue pet and moments later, a bomb dropped next to his home with a piece of shrapnel landing just where he had been sleeping moments earlier. The attack was a part of Israel's 2006 war against Hezbollah and Hamze had just escaped death by mere seconds. "I swear to god, he really saved me from death. Animals always possess a sixth sense we don't have," he said to The Guardian.
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