Two teenage employees at a coffee shop rescued a service dog in need of medical service himself this weekend. Monty had collapsed.  His frantic owner wheeled into the Tim Horton’s in southeast Ottawa desperate for help and two teenage girls jumped into action.   For six years, Monty has been at Sue Anderson's side -- anticipating when she's about to have a seizure.

“He goes everywhere I go,” says Anderson, “Everybody knows Monty.  He's saved my life several times.”

Saturday evening, it was Sue's turn to save Monty when her dog suddenly collapsed. Frantic, she called Para Transpo to take her to the veterinary hospital. But the bus service needs to be booked ahead of time.  When she couldn’t find an available accessible taxi, she bundled Monty up, and started motoring down Hunt Club to try to get him there herself. Two and a half kilometers and 40 minutes later, Sue Anderson stopped at the Tim Horton’s at Lorry Greenberg and Hunt Club.

“I was cold, hypothermia had set in and I was terribly worried about Monty,” she says.

Teenagers Audrey Duvnjak and Emma Norris were on the evening shift when Anderson came wheeling in.

“Immediately I thought what if this happened to Spencer, my dog,” says 18-year-old Norris, “and I was like okay, this woman needs help. I need to help her.  We need to get this dog to the animal hospital before something bad happens to it.”

Audrey had a car outside.  While Emma helped Anderson, 18-year-old Audrey grabbed Monty and took off for the Alta Vista Animal Hospital.

"And when I drove him, I have heated seats, this dog is freezing,” recalls Audrey Duvnjak, “I'm putting my seat heater on, and he did not want to be alone. He doesn't even know me, he crawled up into my lap into little ball, super scared.”

"I'm so proud of them,” says the owner of the Tim Horton’s, Lesley Holmes, “Like I joked with you, I wish all teenagers were like that.”

Which is why Sue Anderson wanted to share her story.

“There's so many stories you hear about bad choices teenagers make,” says Anderson, “that you don't hear of good choices they're making and this was one of the good choices.”

Monty is on medication now for a disc disease.  And back in service, too.  He woke Anderson two nights ago when her heart was beating irregularly.

“That’s the debt repaid,” she says, as she kisses Monty.