MONROVIA, CA - A Siberian Husky named Boone is a local hero after risking his life to protect his 14-year-old owner.

Boone and his owner, Daniel Whitman, were in the backyard of their Monrovia, California home when the five-year-old dog jumped between the unsuspecting boy and a coiled rattler.

"I was actually cleaning up after the dog and I heard him run to the corner of my eye," Daniel said. "I looked over and I saw the rattle of the rattlesnake start going off," said Whitman.

According to the Monrovia Patch, Whitman ran back inside at the sight of the snake and Boone followed soon thereafter. However, when Boone began acting peculiar minutes later, the Whitmans suspected something was wrong.

"There didn't appear to be anything physically wrong with him," Whitman's father told the Monrovia Patch. "He started to kind of twist his head funny and look up at the ceiling like he was in pain."

Last night the River Bandits played the Thunder in an Elk Grove Babe Ruth Baseball game and while I left after three innings before the game was decided it was already clear this is the way youth baseball should be played.....Coach Cary Wolf of the Thunder came over to the River Bandits bench before the game to tell coach Kurt Thornton that he could use some help chalking  the baselines and even though it was the Thunder's responsibility to prepare the field Coach Thornton personally took care of it.......then when Coach Thornton found out one of his players had been told by the doctor that because of a bad shoulder he couldn't throw a baseball for three weeks Coach Wolf was quick to agree that the young man could serve as a designated hitter and not play in the field even though league rules stipulate each player must play at least three defensive innings.......several players on the teams knew each other from school and that showed----after foul balls the catch