ZENA the bullterrier is being hailed a hero when saving her 3 young house owners from a fatal Notechis scutatus.


Staffordshire terrier Zena defended her house owners, the Schultz youngsters, Brendan, 7, Jared, 6, and Sarah, three – once the snake tried to slip through Associate in Nursing open door into the recreation room wherever the children were ingestion their dinner concerning six.30pm on Tues, The Geelong advertizer reportable.

Zena stopped the snake however was then prone to its deadly bite. but because the siblings cried for facilitate to avoid wasting their dog she snapped the snake’s spine, preventing it from placing.
“It was alarming,” mother Patricia aforesaid.
“I walked into the game room to raise the youngsters if they wished anything to eat and this snake was creating its method on the door towards the gap.
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“The youngsters saw it at constant time.
“I screamed, the youngsters screamed and Zena came out of thin air.
“She gave it one fast snap so continued to struggle with it.”
When husband Steven accomplished his married woman was screaming in terror he rush from within the house in Bannockburn, 93km south-west of Melbourne, to avoid wasting his dog from the snake.
“Zena wouldn’t stop once I was yelling at her however she did once Steven told her to urge away,” Mrs Schultz aforesaid.
“It was barely moving when Zena had yield, thus he was able to end it off with the rake.”