By unrelenting barking at her belly, a dog saved the life of her pregnant owner.

38. “Layla Saved My Life”

Ex-inmate and soldier Budhi Blair returned from the Middle East and had severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which caused him to attack his wife as well as a law enforcement officer, so resulting in his incarceration. He came discovered Layla, a pit dog seriously injured in a vehicular accident, while incarcerated. Looking at Layla, he could see himself: mistreated, damaged, and abandoned. His decision to bring Layla under his wing set off a remarkable metamorphosis in his life. That dog saved me, he said. Layla pulled me from there. With reference to me, that dog worked better than Prozac," he says.