Fay Karamanakis tells the story of her beloved Labrador-cross
Blackie, who was shot dead six hours after saving her family’s life by a police
officer. The dog was one of hundreds shot by Government authorities in a bid to
control roaming packs through the northern suburbs and control the spread of
disease. Blackie was one of the first to go.

“When
I went to get a towel to dry him up he runs straight to the baby’s bedroom,”
Fay says. “He grabbed the baby’s sheets
and pulled them and the baby knocked her head on the metal cot and started
screaming. I
grabbed the baby and I thought ‘you naughty dog, how could you do this?’ My baby was blue from the impact and crying.”
As Fay comforted the baby, Blackie ran to 3yr old Katie’s room next door and grabbed her by the pyjamas, pulling
her onto the floorboards where she landed heavily. Fay thought Blackie had gone
mad.
“I
remember holding both screaming kids in my arms thinking this stupid dog was
going to make me give the baby measles ... I was crying with the kids,”
she says.
But Blackie began trying to nudge the family out the front door: “this dog is telling us to go, so we went
downstairs.”
They took shelter in the granny flat below the elevated
house with another couple. Within seconds, the top of the house, where they had
been only moments earlier, began to peel away.

Darwin had been absolutely obliterated. And there was
Blackie, who after sheltering under a car all night raced straight to the
family. He had not wanted to come into the granny flat, but he was fine.
Police helped the family slowly drive the short distance to the school.“As
I walked into the shelter I heard a bang. I turn around to see what the bang
was and I saw my dog had been shot … that was devastating.. devastating because
he had saved our lives. There was no pre-warning; they thought he was a stray because
he had run after the car.”
“I
still miss him and feel upset when I think about him. He saved our lives.”
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