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I'm Casper, but Dad calls me Hero Dog!
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Quad-Citians show off their pets in Creature Feature, appearing Sundays on the Your Pets page and Mondays on the Neighbors page. This story was submitted by Jack Michalski, of Rock Island. If you want to share your pet's story, email your submission to features@qconline.com and attach a photo in JPEG form. Or, send a story and photo via regular mail to Creature Feature, Features Department, The Dispatch/The Rock Island Argus, 1720 5th Ave., Moline, IL 61265. Haven't seen the story you submitted in Creature Feature yet? Keep looking! Submissions are being used in the order they have been received. Hi, I am Casper. ... I think! It all began when I was 3 months old. Mom and Dad saw an advertisement for some Maltese puppies. They came to check things out. After about an hour, Mom fell in love with me, and they bought me and took me to their house. They named me Casper, and I had a loving family to live with for the next 15 months. Then all things changed. It was Christmas Eve 2011 that my world changed, and now I am totally confused. Mom and Dad had been invited over to her brother's house for a social gathering. Theygot home about 9 p.m., and Dad decided to take me out for my last evening walk. We got about three houses from our house, and then something strange happened to my dad. He fell, and was lying on the cement. I didn't know what had happened, so I just started barking and barking to try to get someone's attention. Our neighbor's daughter and granddaughter were coming to see her. The daughterwent inside and told her mother a man was lying across the street with a dog. Her mom asked what they looked like, and she said he was pretty good-sized, and the dog was a little white dog. The mother said, "That sounds like Jack and Casper, and they are good people." Well, her daughter came back out and checked Dad for a pulse and couldn't detect one, so she started performing CPR on Dad, and she told her daughter to go and have Gramma call 911. I later found out the lady was a nurse at Trinity Hospital, and her name was Erica Hayes. They called her Dad's Christmas angel. The ambulance came and took Dad away to the hospital. After tests, they said he had three skull fractures and had a heart blockage. After 22 days in the hospital, and an implanted pacemaker, Dad was able to come home. Mom and Dad sent his Christmas angel a nice floral arrangement. Everything is fine now, except for my major dilemma. Dad now calls me "Hero Dog." That is why I am so confused. So would you readers please tell me: Am I Casper or Hero Dog? Thank you for reading my story. 
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Today is Thursday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2013. There are 222 days left in the year.
1863 — 150 years ago: Messrs. J. and M. Rosenfield have moved their leather and hidestore to the building formerly occupied by Temple Bufords's store. They buy and sellhides, pelts, furs, wool, beeswax, lard, tallow, etc.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island Lumber Company has recovered 5,000 of the8,000 logs that were carried away by the Mississippi River flood last week.
1913 -- 100 years ago: John J. Ullemeyer has been awarded the contract to furnish RockIsland fire and police department members with uniforms, at the city's expense.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Work on Aledo's new $38,000 swimming pool was started thismorning at South Park when ground for the pool was broken by Mayor John W. Murphy.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Students and teacher at Moline High School called today "MissLeona Day" day at the school in honor of the government teacher who retires at theend of the school term. Although she's been teaching for 43 years at the school, Miss Dayfound a new way of arriving at the school this morning. At 7:30 a.m., a police squad carpulled up in front of Miss Day's home and escorted her to school. A caravan of students' cars joined the procession along the way.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Barbecue cooking and riverfront antics are planned for Discover the
River Day Saturday in Leach Park, Bettendorf. A 5K run, wind surfing, a canoe race, hogcalling and more will round out the day under the Interstate 74 bridge.
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