Hero Border Collie saves life of 17-year-old boy who was having a STROKE after waking his parents up in the middle of the night and scratching on their son's door

A family canine is being hailed a leader for redeeming nan life of a 17-year-old Texas boy experiencing a stroke.

Amanda and Daines Tanner were woken by a one-year-old border collie named Axel astatine 5am successful nan early greeting of a Saturday successful August and led to their boy Gabriel's bedroom, wherever they recovered him slurring his words.

Gabriel was rushed to nan emergency room earlier terrible encephalon harm occurred and is now undergoing beingness and reside therapy.

Amanda told DailyMail.com that Gabriel is recovering good - acknowledgment to Axel.

'Therapy has helped rather a spot pinch each of his recovery,' she said.

'His reside is still nan hardest to retrieve fully, and astir group tin show thing is wrong, but each different functions affected are beautiful well. On its measurement to afloat recovery.'

Doctors wished that nan changeable was caused by an artery tear that delivers humor to nan brain, but has since made 'amazing' progress.

The Today Show shared nan unthinkable story, wherever nan Tanners explained they first thought Axel needed to spell outside.

But erstwhile Daines opened nan door, Axel urged him to Gabriel's room.

'I would person ne'er thought a teen could person a changeable and would person thought he needed much slumber if thing had Axel not alerted america to nan issue,' Amanda told DailyMail.com.

Sabih Effendi, a neurosurgeon who treated Gabriel, said nan boy whitethorn ne'er person recovered if Axel had not awakened nan family successful time.

'Without that early notification of him getting to nan hospital, you really would person had really imperishable deficits that would person made him really nonfunctional and incapable to unrecorded life,' Effendi told The Washington Post. 

Gabriel is simply a elder successful precocious schoolhouse who is besides nan extremity for nan shot team.

The patient young man was taking schoolhouse pictures, he is group to postgraduate adjacent year, hours earlier nan changeable hit.

He felt a numbness successful his limb early that Saturday, went downstairs and fell connected nan level earlier stepping backmost up to his room.

Not reasoning thing was severely wrong, Gabriel returned to his chamber - but Axel had a emotion thing was not right.

The canine parked successful beforehand of Gabriel's room until nan young man's begetter checked connected him. 

'I wish I knew what was going done his mind to cognize and aftermath america up,' Amanda told DailyMail.com. 

Doctors wished that nan changeable happened sometime overnight, and his mother realized really overmuch clip he would person gone without curen if Axel had not intervened. 

Amanda said Gabriel and 2 of his brothers were baptized astatine religion nan first week he was backmost from nan hospital.

'This first week of Gabriel being location was amazing, yet pinch galore hurdles to conquer, galore visits to doctors, papers to capable retired for school, therapy, etc...etc... it's a caller world for us,' Amanda shared connected September 17.

'But God had a scheme for Sunday each along.'

Gabriel is connected nan roadworthy to betterment little than 2 months aft his changeable and walked retired of nan infirmary connected September 9.

He is taking classes from a homebound coach and partaking successful beingness and reside therapy.

Axel, whom nan Tanners had rescued, is now tasked pinch pursuing Gabriel everywhere. 

'He's now sleeping pinch Gabriel more, and Gabriel's doors are unfastened truthful he tin spell successful and out,'' said Amanda. 

'He's ever been very delicate to everything and everybody's emotions astatine home.'