There's one scene in Hollywood disaster movies I've always hated: Oblivious to death and chaos all around and at great peril to himself and others, the hero jumps to the rescue of his own pet.
It must have been a nice touch of humanitarianism when it was first depicted on the big screen.
But by the end of the millennium, it had become so trite it was an inevitable laughing stock.
That is why no disaster movie, however well crafted, can hold a candle to real-life events.
In the Sichuan earthquake, pets were not just the objects of rescue.
In a few cases, they were the heroes who saved people.
The story of Wang Youqiong, a 61-year-old caught in a landslide in the mountains, is a case in point.
After her lower body was stuck under giant rocks, she survived on raindrops and the help of two dogs for eight days.
They licked her face clean to provide her with much needed moisture on her parched lips.
They also barked vigorously whenever they sensed human movement nearby.
Eventually they were able to attract rescuers.
That was 196 hours after the May 12 quake, which may have claimed 80,000 lives.
In a Beichuan police station, a pug-dog dragged 43-year-old Li Guolin out of a fourth-floor room when the quake hit.
Another dog was a "professional rescuer", not a pet.
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