Super Dogs Rover and Trudy
A young man called Darren pulled up to his local beach car park in a blue van. He had black spiky hair and clear, azure eyes. He wore a plain t-shirt and plain black shorts. Setting his sunglasses on his nose, he strode confidently to the spot he had his eye on and placed his deckchair there.
“Rover,” the young man said, the dog immediately ran over to him. He was a black and brown German Shepherd dog.
Darren liked dogs. His other dog was a yellow and white furred Labrador by the name of Trudy.
The sun shone brightly through the fluffy white clouds, sliding back to reveal the blue sky. A slight breeze passed by and the birds were singing melodiously. It was a good day.
Darren had brought two balls with him, which he threw to his dogs. They both loved playing with the balls. While his dogs were playing, Daren saw many young children playing in the clear blue water. He then suddenly spotted identical twins, Bill and Ben, both five, blond-haired and brown-eyed who got into difficulty whilst swimming. They started screaming and threshing their arms in the water, holding on to each other as they struggled to keep their heads above the waves. The twins’ mother had anxiety etched on her face. Jane loved her boys and was desperate to help them.
Everybody seemed to stop what they were doing, as nervous tension grew around the beach and all you could see were people biting their nails.
This was before Rover and Trudy started leaping into action, running to the water and used their paws to paddle themselves ’till they reached the twins. Bill and Ben clung on, with both hands, to the necks of Rover and Trudy. The dogs pulled them back onto the sand. Everybody was in euphoric mood to see that the twins were now safely back on shore.
Jane came over to check on the twins to see if they were both fine. They were only shivering as they were feeling cold, so their mother got them in a towel each to dry off and take their wet swimming trunks off before putting their clothes back on again.
Then Jane and her twin boys went over to where Darren was sitting, with Rover and Trudy now sat next to him.
She called the dogs heroes for rescuing her boys, who asked Darren if they could stroke his dogs. He replied, saying “Of course you can”, as he knew both Rover and Trudy seemed to like the children.
They were in fact neighbours, but rarely got to the chance to speak to each other due to their busy lives.
Darren then left Rover and Trudy with Jane and the twins, as they played, while he got out of his deckchair to go to the fish and chip shop, which was at the edge of the beach, as he was feeling hungry.
He got himself a bag of chips, with salt and vinegar for flavour. Then he took his bag of chips back to the beach and sat back in his deckchair.
He decided to offer some to Jane and the children, but soon realised that they’d brought jam sandwiches from home in three small cool bags with small cartons of orange juice to drink.
Once Bill and Ben had finished their lunch, Jane decided to buy them ice-cream from Mr Whippy’s ice-cream van, which always came to the beach. This time, there was a long cue to get an ice-cream, because of the nice weather. Everybody that was at the beach seemed to be wanting to get an ice-cream, all except for Darren, who was full after eating his bag of chips.
He then noticed an old lady walking along the beach with her blue handbag in her right hand, Jane knew her as Mandy. Darren looked back at the old lady and suddenly noticed that two men, both wearing white t-shirts, baggy blue jeans and baseball caps, had approached her.
One of the men then took Mandy’s bag from her right hand, before the other knocked her to the floor. In a haste to get away from Darren, Rover and Trudy, who was now in pursuit of them, the first man dropped the bag on the floor.
Darren rang the police to tell them that he and his two dogs were chasing two men who had stolen an old lady’s handbag. Darren told the police operator that he was going to keep the call running, so that the police control could let officers know where they were, by tracing his mobile phone.
The two men were out breath from running, so they decided to take breather this gave Darren, Rover and Trudy the time to catch the two men and cornered them so they had nowhere to run in a desperate attempt to escape from Darren and Rover and Trudy.
Both men then suddenly drew pocket knives from their jean pockets, holding the knives in their right hands. Their hands were shaking, as they threatened to stab Darren, Rover and Trudy if they came any closer. So Darren took a step back, gesturing with both hands waving backwards to Rover and Trudy to do the same.
The tension grew, as the standoff developed between the two men and Darren. However in a momentary lapse of concentration both men dropped their guard. Rover and Trudy then saw an opportunity as they both leaped and knocked the knives out of both men’s right hands. The men were in a bit of a daze to what had just happened. Then the police turned up and slapped the handcuffs on them. They were then led away and put in the back of the police van, which took them both back to South Shore Police Station. They informed Darren that Mandy had retrieved her handbag, which the men had dropped earlier.
One of the officers got a call. It was the Chief Inspector, Tom Davis, who had asked to see Darren, Rover and Trudy to come the station, so he could give Rover and Trudy medals for the bravery both dogs showed when disarming such a dangerous criminals. These men were known to the police and now off the streets and safely behind bars.
Mandy was shaken by the whole incident. Yet when the frail, old lady got home, she rang the local newspaper, who did a story on how Rover and Trudy had been heroes twice in a day. They also asked Darren for permission for a picture of Rover and Trudy and his side of the story. Both dogs where later called before the Lord Mayor, Val Haynes, for the brave and courageous acts that they showed that day and received further medals for such bravery.
Mandy, Darren and the two heroes remained friends, along with Jane and her twins Bill and Ben, who regularly visited each other and often went to the beach together.
And the sun never failed to shine brightly through the fluffy white clouds, which would always slide back to reveal the blue sky. A slight breeze always passed by and the birds always sang melodiously. It was a good day, every time they went.
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