Dogs. They are the best friends we do not always deserve.
?Yet, time and time again these beloved fury friends step in and put humans first.
Be it saving an owner form a rattlesnake, bear, mountain lion or house fire, there are dogs who are always there to protect.
Take a look through this gallery to learn more about some of these hero dogs.
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A one-year-old Maremma mix saved her owner after a health scare on a walk.?
Clover, from Ottawa in Canada, ?was out on a walk with owner Haley Moore in March 2021 when Moore suffered a seizure and fell to the ground.
Clover ran into the street where a car thankfully saw her and stopped to offer assistance.
Emergency services were called and Moore was treated.
"All I remember is waking up in the ambulance and being really confused, just like what is going on," she said.
"If this ends up happening again, I feel 10 times safer and I know she will be there for me. She's a really amazing dog, and I love her to death."?
Eva, a hero German Shepherd, saved her owner from a mountain lion attack in California.
It was May 2022 when the almost three-year-old pup sustained serious injuries battling the predator near the Trinity River in northern California.
Eva intervened when the mountain lion lunged at owner Erin Wilson?.
Wilson was walking ahead of Eva ?when the large cat scratched Wilson on the shoulder.
Eva came bounding to Wilson's defence.
Despite surviving the ordeal, Eva sadly died from her injuries in June 2022.?
"We said goodbye at 9:20 this morning. There were no changes to her condition overnight," Wilson wrote in a post to Instagram.
"Goodbye my beautiful sweet girl. You are my world, my light, my best friend."
A rescue dog became a hero in 2017 when she helped save the life of a toddler.
The pooch, named Peanut, discovered the three-year-old girl in a field near her Delta County house.
"Peanut started going crazy at our house. She was running up and down the stairs, barking and yelping," one of the pup's owners told the shelter.?
"She then went and got my husband, who was in the garage working on some projects, and alerted him that she wanted to go outside."
After Peanut was let outside she ran full-speed into the field. One of her owners quickly followed.
"My husband followed her and to his surprise, he found a naked, shivering, three-year-old girl curled up in a ball," the owner wrote.
"He scooped her up, wrapped her in his sweatshirt, and brought her inside. He called 911 and reported the incident.
"By the time the ambulance and police arrived, the little girl could only say one thing ¨C "doggie." Thanks to Peanut, a little girl's life was saved today."
Luke Arthur was asleep when his kepie woke him to a fire emergency raging inside his Brisbane home.
It was two weeks before Christmas last year when Arthur pup Lunar saved his life.
"At first I just thought I was dreaming you know," Arthur said.
"She's jumping up onto my hip as if she was unsure of something, now I know what she was jumping on me for.
"I popped my head down and had a look and through the cracks of that door I could see the orange glare."
Arthur raced outside, breaking down doors to escape but then dashed back inside to get his mother's ashes.
A Jack Russell reportedly used "ninja moves" to save its owner from a bear attack.?
Susan Lee was walking the trails of her Stafford property in August 2022 with her two dogs, a Jack Russell terrier and labradoodle, when the attack took place.
She had just recalled her dogs when she heard a loud noise and realised a bear was charging her.
She tripped on a stone wall and the bear grabbed her and bite her on the leg.
Her Jack Russel terrier (not pictured) barking at the bear, which then freed Lee who began to retreat down the trail.
Lee called emergency services and was taken to hospital by a neighbour.
Game Warden Sgt. Jeffrey Whipple told People the dog protected Lee while using "ninja moves" to avoid harm.
"If I were to predict what would have happened if the dog wasn't there, the bear may have caused more damage to her," Game Warden Sgt. Jeffrey Whipple told the outlet.
"But most likely, when she was knocked down and was out of the fight, the bear would have got off of her and retreated."
An Alaskan Malamute protected his injured owner from freezing temperatures after a failed hiking trip.
The pup called North kept his owner warm for 13 hours in the dark until he could get medical attention.
The accident occurred late on January 1 2022 more than 1700 metres up Mount Velebit, an area that stretches along Croatia's Adriatic Sea coast.
The man and North slipped and fell about 150 metres.
"(North) curled beside him and warmed him with his body," the rescue service's post said.
"His loyalty didn't stop even when the rescuers came, he was one of us, guarding his man for 13 hours."
In 2021 a seven-year-old Golden Retriever stepped in to save his teenage owner from a rattlesnake.
Alex Loredo and his pooch Marley were watching television at their Harbison Canyon home when the dryer went off.
After watching outside to check on the dryer, Loredo heard a noise.
"As I am walking out the door, to my left side, I hear a big rattle," he told ABC News America.
It was a rattlesnake.
"Before I could even turn, Marley had ran between us. Marley basically pushed me out of the way," Loredo said.
The snake lunged at Marley, biting him on the tongue. A second lunge landed a bite on the pup's lip.
After dragging Marley back in the house, the pup's health was suffering.
Loredo rushed his dog to the local vet and then onto a second vet hospital for a vaccine. Thankfully he was quick enough and Marley survived the attack.
Jazzy the rescue dog has been credited with saving the life of her diabetic owner.
The Yorkshire terrier mix reportedly alerted the mother of her owner, Michael, in 2018 after Michael suffered a dangerous sugar low.
"She was on his chest and she was digging away with her feet," Christine Brewer, Michael's mother, told Fox10.?
"She took her nose and she kept bumping his chin to try to bring him around."
Jazzy's actions meant Christine had time to wake Michael and ensure he got help.
I?n 2014 a four-year-old King Shepard saved the life of his teenage owner.
Joseph Phillips-Garcia, then 16, was in a car with family members when it veered off the road and crashed in Kanaka Bar, British Columbia.
"I started to get tired. I could feel the truck going over but I didn't really know what was going on," Phillips-Garcia said.
"It went black after that".
Phillips-Garcia and his dog Sako were the only survivors of the crash.
The teenager sustained a broken leg and collarbone.
As night fell, Sako kept his friend warm and an eye out for predators.
Large cats, bears and coyotes were in the area.
"We were just falling asleep and that's when you hear the first couple of howls," Phillips-Garcia said.
"He got up as soon as he released their scent was coming closer and closer, and then he just went in. You could hear them just fighting and the bushes rumbling around."
Sako and ?Phillips-Garcia both survived their ordeal and were rescued.
A beloved six-year-old pitbull saved its owner's life not once but twice.?
Titan (not pictured) won a bravery award in 2012 when his owner Gloria Benton suffered an aneurysm and fractured her skull.
Benton's husband John was about to leave the couple's home in Georgia, United States, for work when Titan began running back and forth between the couple's bedroom and the front door.
John went into the bedroom and found Gloria had collapsed.
"What the doctor said, had it not been for this dog, if he had let me leave that house, she would have either bled to death or the aneurysm would have killed her," Mr Benton said.
"We owe a whole lot to this little rascal. It's not about the breed but the way they are raised."
Titan turned saviour a second time when he woke John when his wife fell in the bathroom and fractured her hip.
Born in 1800, Barry was a rescue dog at the hospice on the Great St Bernard.
Since the 11th century, the hospice has been run by the Augustinian canons - an order of priests.
"The canons and their servants rescued those who were buried or lost. Over time, the canons let the dogs accompany them in their search for missing persons," the Natural History Museum of Bern said.
They saved over 2000 people from death in over 200 years.
Barry reportedly helped save 40 people.
A bomb-sniffing Jack Russell has become a national hero in war-torn Ukraine.
The two-year-old pup named 'Patron', which means 'ammo' in Ukrainian, has helped detect and clear 2000 anti-tank mines since the start of Russia's invasion in February 2022.
Patron and his handler were honoured in May 2022 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Patron's owner, Mykhailo Iliev of the Civil Protection Service, told CNN he first bought Patron as a family pet for his son.
Russia launched a wide-spread war on Ukraine in February 2022.
Patron is among a number of dogs that helped change history?.