Life-saving dog

I totally agree with Kenneth Cassar (April 7) regarding dogs having both rights and responsibilities.

I have a dog who is now 10 years old. Some years ago I was in bed and going deeper and deeper into sleep when my throat started swelling. I was choking but could do nothing about it, all due to medication that I was allergic to.

My dog realised that I was one of her responsibilities and so she decided to find a means of helping me. She did.

She removed all the bedclothes from me, then as I had not responded she started to remove my night clothes and bark into my ear, rousing me enough so that I could drink cold water to help reduce the swelling.

The next day I was told by my doctor that had she not done so I would not have woken up and I would have died.

Does Fabian Borg (April 4) think that my dog did not have, and did not recognise, one of her responsibilities and then worked out for herself a means to fulfil it, or does he think it was all just done by chance?