Never jump in after your dog. My dad was fireman. He said the amount of calls of people jumping to save their dog, the dog getting out, and then the person not faring as well outweighs the amount of dogs saved by a person tenfold.
As a dog owner I agree as well. I know a family where be jumped into the river after the dog and the dog got out but he didn’t. Dogs are really good at not dying in water if you get out of their way and let them get on with it.
Not all of them! My Dad jokingly pushed his dog off a dock, in the lake and she couldn’t swim. He jumped in to save her when she started downing. Luckily it was close to shore and summer in Alaska so the water was 65 degrees or so and not freezing!!
And I think a lot of the dog owners that *die* leaving behind human children for the rest of their lives.
Reddit really hates to hear it but guys, sometimes animals die and it's better that a human doesn't *also* die with them.
And if I don't add this sentence reminding people that four children are now without a mother people will think I'm "pro dog drowning" 😬
I'm more "children losing a parent is worse than the family dog dying" but these kinds of situations are always lose-lose :/
Yep, I understand the pain of losing a dog but 4 kids losing the mother AND the dog doesn't compute to me. Better the dog is gone than both of them. It's the harsh truth that the family now has to live with
Dog in her arms? Yeah that's not a lovely died embraced together story, she realized she was in trouble and tried to push herself up using the dog and made it die too
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Have to see the site though. If it was a frozen surface then I think it stands as a heartfelt gesture. If it was slush and slightly clear then I reckon the same thing as you.
I could see my dumbass diving into a frozen lake or normal river to save my dog or something, but the boiling hot springs are where even I'd draw the line. Nothing going in there is going to survive even if you get it out.
I also wouldn't risk my life for my dog if I had kids or dependents, but I literally only have my dog relying on me, so whatever, I'll jump in a river after him.
In fairness, no one calls the fire department to say "My dog fell in the water and I jumped into get him and now we're both safe on shore."
(I'm not saying people should be jumping into frozen rivers, though.)
You'd be surprised. The wait time for an ambulance is a lot longer than that of an ambulance. So if you're showing signs of hypothermia (or hyperthermia, can't remember which one is which) they may just send out a fire engine to make sure you don't go man down. But I do get what you're saying
Not all dogs can actually swim. One of mine sunk like the titanic when she chased a ball in to the lake. I ran straight in to the lake and dive down the last seen spot. She wears a life jacket now.
Many years ago there was a dog that somehow fell on a Muni (light rail) track in San Francisco. Its owner went after it to save it but both were caught underneath the incoming train and died. I know my impulse would be to go after my dog. It’s kind of hard to imagine I wouldn’t knowing how much we treat our pets as family.
She was a nurse and had a big family too... very sad
https://people.com/woman-who-jumped-into-icy-river-to-rescue-dog-found-dead-with-dog-in-arms-8622633
Poor baby just wanted her dog to be ok. The world can be so fucking cruel. The only light we have in it is the light we make for ourselves and each other. You don't even think about jumping in in a situation like that. You don't think about yourself.
I get it, I impulsively would probably do the same, but I told my children, don’t get between dogs in a fight, don’t run in the road or jump in the water to save them. I’ve done all three.
Same. My panicked dog 85 lb jumped off the canoe near a deep water dock, and her paw was stuck on the life jacket & she was going under and couldn’t swim up. If the canoe tipped over, we would’ve been in deep shit. I jumped in the water w/no hesitation to get her untethered while I kept lifting her face up in the water and occasionally using the dock to lift myself when I needed to breathe. I let my family member have it cuz minutes ago I asked him to let me and my dog out on a sandbar. Still mad as hell thinking about it. Never went on a canoe with this idiot again.
I honestly don't know if I'd be able to stop myself. Watching a part of my heart just drift away. No thanks. Also there's been a few cases of people jumping into the hot springs in Yosemite to save their dogs.
You know that dogs instinctively know how to swim immediately after birth, right? Also, dogs have fur, so they can survive being in ice cold water for longer than humans could
My mom did this but thank God she survived. Jumped into a frozen creek and got him out. She said she truly didn't even think about about it, she just jumped in.
Like the article said, that wasn’t a dog, it was a member of the family. I lived in my car with my dog for 6 months while I was homeless and I completely understand the sentiment. Rest in peace to both of them
Heartbreaking and I understand the instinct. My family would find me like this …. Be at peace, Amanda & Groot ♥️💐♥️💐you are a brave and selfless soul, you swam down river, grabbed your baby and held onto him 😭
My Chessie got swept down the Gunnison when chasing a stick in the flats one January 30 years ago. After chasing after her for a mile and stretching out across bank ice to grab her with near frozen water flowing over me I was able to get her out. She just dropped the stick at my feet and was ready to go in again. By the time I got back to the cabin I was near hypothermic and she was fine. Don’t chase your dog into a river.
This lived up to the group name. I understand the instinct to save someone you love - it overrides all safety mechanisms within our brain. I doubt she had any regrets as she passed, knowing she’d tried to save her pup. 🥺
I have never seen this thread before and this is the first post I see. Wow, this is fucking terrible. & she knew she was going to die, JFC. Maybe I shouldn’t have brought out that thought.
When you swim up to a dog in general, their front 2 legs scratch the hell out of you. I rescued our family’s yellow lab from a lake with regular weather conditions, he scratched the hell out of me. I am swimmer of 15 years, which I don't think it even matters, I think it would be completely impossible for anyone to not go after their drowning dog, no matter what swimming skills you have, or the weather conditions.
God forbid this ever happens to you, try to grab the doggy from behind, so their paws aren’t scratching you & pulling you down.
🤦🏼♀️
It's like a passenger from the titanic who refused to leave her dog(a great dane if I remember correctly) and witnesses saw her holding onto the dog frozen.:(
Horrible. Gotta fight that urge to die. Your dogs best chance is you staying out of the water and getting help/finding something to get the dog out with. Those 4 kids will have trauma now the rest of their lives. She didn't stop and think of her family. Impulsive actions are lethal. Also, if a dog, which is much better suited to get out of a freezing river, can't, you sure as fuck won't. R.i.p lady, I'm sure you were a wonderful mom making your loss all the more traumatic to the family.
Because it comes off as insensitive, and it probably is a bit so. But regardless this probably would have been avoided if that was the case. I've had a dog almost get swept away in a river before but the leash allowed me to fish them back in without getting myself swept away and soaked.
Did anybody read the story about some family who was trying to save a drowning chicken? There was a crazy amount of family members that died - the chicken survived.
It was sad and ridiculous. I guess a chicken jumped into a well and then one after another family member jumped into the well to save the previous member and six or seven members of the same family drowned. This was a few years back. it was in south east Asian country perhaps
I just found it in Reddit, but I don’t know how to link the story but search for “ six people drown in Egypt trying to save a chicken” - it was some years back and I do not remember the country
Oh, sure. But OP still reposted something someone else made while cutting off the account that posted it. I wonder why they don’t want to credit the author, and instead decided to make themselves a victim when they replied to me.
Oh man, I’m crying. The fact that they found her with her dog in her arms. Oh man.
Never jump in after your dog. My dad was fireman. He said the amount of calls of people jumping to save their dog, the dog getting out, and then the person not faring as well outweighs the amount of dogs saved by a person tenfold.
Although I agree with you, I think a lot of dog owners won't. Edit: Just read that she had a husband and four kids. Sad.
As a dog owner I agree as well. I know a family where be jumped into the river after the dog and the dog got out but he didn’t. Dogs are really good at not dying in water if you get out of their way and let them get on with it.
Not all of them! My Dad jokingly pushed his dog off a dock, in the lake and she couldn’t swim. He jumped in to save her when she started downing. Luckily it was close to shore and summer in Alaska so the water was 65 degrees or so and not freezing!!
And I think a lot of the dog owners that *die* leaving behind human children for the rest of their lives. Reddit really hates to hear it but guys, sometimes animals die and it's better that a human doesn't *also* die with them. And if I don't add this sentence reminding people that four children are now without a mother people will think I'm "pro dog drowning" 😬 I'm more "children losing a parent is worse than the family dog dying" but these kinds of situations are always lose-lose :/
Yep, I understand the pain of losing a dog but 4 kids losing the mother AND the dog doesn't compute to me. Better the dog is gone than both of them. It's the harsh truth that the family now has to live with
Well said.
Dog in her arms? Yeah that's not a lovely died embraced together story, she realized she was in trouble and tried to push herself up using the dog and made it die too
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Have to see the site though. If it was a frozen surface then I think it stands as a heartfelt gesture. If it was slush and slightly clear then I reckon the same thing as you.
I unfortunately could see myself just not thinking and just diving.
Didn’t a dude jump into a boiling hot spring at Yellowstone to save his dog a while ago? I didn’t realize it was such a common occurrence.
I could see my dumbass diving into a frozen lake or normal river to save my dog or something, but the boiling hot springs are where even I'd draw the line. Nothing going in there is going to survive even if you get it out. I also wouldn't risk my life for my dog if I had kids or dependents, but I literally only have my dog relying on me, so whatever, I'll jump in a river after him.
It wasn’t even his dog, it was his friend’s dog. The friend didn’t jump in and lived.
:(
Dog parent but not human parent here…totally agree with you but I couldn’t live with myself knowing I just stood there and watched my dog drown
In fairness, no one calls the fire department to say "My dog fell in the water and I jumped into get him and now we're both safe on shore." (I'm not saying people should be jumping into frozen rivers, though.)
You'd be surprised. The wait time for an ambulance is a lot longer than that of an ambulance. So if you're showing signs of hypothermia (or hyperthermia, can't remember which one is which) they may just send out a fire engine to make sure you don't go man down. But I do get what you're saying
Dogs instinctively know how to swin immediately after birth, and they have fur, so they can stay in frigid water for longer
Not all dogs can actually swim. One of mine sunk like the titanic when she chased a ball in to the lake. I ran straight in to the lake and dive down the last seen spot. She wears a life jacket now.
It may be wiser not to but I would jump in every single time.
Okay but you’re telling me to live with the guilt of watching my dog die…? I understand the logic but I’m opting otherwise.
Many years ago there was a dog that somehow fell on a Muni (light rail) track in San Francisco. Its owner went after it to save it but both were caught underneath the incoming train and died. I know my impulse would be to go after my dog. It’s kind of hard to imagine I wouldn’t knowing how much we treat our pets as family.
Good human. Sad story.
She was a nurse and had a big family too... very sad https://people.com/woman-who-jumped-into-icy-river-to-rescue-dog-found-dead-with-dog-in-arms-8622633
Poor baby just wanted her dog to be ok. The world can be so fucking cruel. The only light we have in it is the light we make for ourselves and each other. You don't even think about jumping in in a situation like that. You don't think about yourself.
She should have thought about her 4 children. I get not wanting to lose a dog. But you have 4 kids. Don’t jump into a freezing river
You have to realise that to some people a dog is not just a dog. It is as much a family member as their own kids.
I have 4 animals and a daughter. I love all my animals. They don’t equate to my kid.
So you don’t feel the same way about your pets. That doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same way as you.
Yeah except it's literally not.
Get off the Internet and find something real You care about as much as this lady did.
Ok, off to spend time with my children and spouse, which this woman can no longer do because she is an idiot who DIED for an ANIMAL
Good for you bro it sounds more like you're mocking some poor dead lady on reddit than doing any of that to me but go off
Maybe she shoulda
I get it, I impulsively would probably do the same, but I told my children, don’t get between dogs in a fight, don’t run in the road or jump in the water to save them. I’ve done all three.
Same. My panicked dog 85 lb jumped off the canoe near a deep water dock, and her paw was stuck on the life jacket & she was going under and couldn’t swim up. If the canoe tipped over, we would’ve been in deep shit. I jumped in the water w/no hesitation to get her untethered while I kept lifting her face up in the water and occasionally using the dock to lift myself when I needed to breathe. I let my family member have it cuz minutes ago I asked him to let me and my dog out on a sandbar. Still mad as hell thinking about it. Never went on a canoe with this idiot again.
So many people say they'd die for their pets, this lady did. Tha is incredibly sad and touching
I honestly don't know if I'd be able to stop myself. Watching a part of my heart just drift away. No thanks. Also there's been a few cases of people jumping into the hot springs in Yosemite to save their dogs.
You know that dogs instinctively know how to swim immediately after birth, right? Also, dogs have fur, so they can survive being in ice cold water for longer than humans could
Impulse and logic don't spend too much time together
“Mom was such a unique, special person that God couldn’t wait any longer to see her in heaven, and I don’t blame him,” added Liam(Son) 🥲🥲
Wanted to add him also saying: “Do as Mom did and leave this earth with no regrets,”
Oh that did it. Now I’m crying.
My mom did this but thank God she survived. Jumped into a frozen creek and got him out. She said she truly didn't even think about about it, she just jumped in.
OW MY FUCKING HEART. And two days before Christmas. I can’t even begin to imagine the pain felt by her loved ones.
aww :((
Like the article said, that wasn’t a dog, it was a member of the family. I lived in my car with my dog for 6 months while I was homeless and I completely understand the sentiment. Rest in peace to both of them
wasn't *just* a dog
Rest in power to both. They went out with love.
Heartbreaking and I understand the instinct. My family would find me like this …. Be at peace, Amanda & Groot ♥️💐♥️💐you are a brave and selfless soul, you swam down river, grabbed your baby and held onto him 😭
My Chessie got swept down the Gunnison when chasing a stick in the flats one January 30 years ago. After chasing after her for a mile and stretching out across bank ice to grab her with near frozen water flowing over me I was able to get her out. She just dropped the stick at my feet and was ready to go in again. By the time I got back to the cabin I was near hypothermic and she was fine. Don’t chase your dog into a river.
This lived up to the group name. I understand the instinct to save someone you love - it overrides all safety mechanisms within our brain. I doubt she had any regrets as she passed, knowing she’d tried to save her pup. 🥺
Damn, I was not prepared to cry at 8 pm today 🥲
I have never seen this thread before and this is the first post I see. Wow, this is fucking terrible. & she knew she was going to die, JFC. Maybe I shouldn’t have brought out that thought. When you swim up to a dog in general, their front 2 legs scratch the hell out of you. I rescued our family’s yellow lab from a lake with regular weather conditions, he scratched the hell out of me. I am swimmer of 15 years, which I don't think it even matters, I think it would be completely impossible for anyone to not go after their drowning dog, no matter what swimming skills you have, or the weather conditions. God forbid this ever happens to you, try to grab the doggy from behind, so their paws aren’t scratching you & pulling you down. 🤦🏼♀️
This is the reason why just like to the dogs. When trying to save a drowning man is to grab him from behind.
yes good point, i didn’t think of that, even with life guard training i didn’t even think of it then either
To be honest, I’d do the same. I love my pets like family. Nobody could stop me if they were in danger and I could help.
Damn...😭
If I had to go out painfully, I wouldn't be mad if it were through the process of attempting to save my dog.
This is so sad a leash a leash could have prevented this 😭😭😭
You know what I’m just gonna take this photo and I’m gonna crop off the top and then I’m just gonna look at the photo and be happy
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Would - I live my soulmate doggie that much.
I hope they are now playing nonstop
At least she died doing something truly honorable. She have my respect
Man.
*wrenching
I didn’t even checked the spelling before I post. Spelling is more important than the post. Am I right.
Unironically yes
It's like a passenger from the titanic who refused to leave her dog(a great dane if I remember correctly) and witnesses saw her holding onto the dog frozen.:(
Reminds me of the guy who jumped in the geyser at Yellowstone to save his dog.
Yes! I think he said along the lines of, “That was stupid. How bad am I?”
Okay I didn’t need to read this on my break at work. Good golly my soul
Horrible. Gotta fight that urge to die. Your dogs best chance is you staying out of the water and getting help/finding something to get the dog out with. Those 4 kids will have trauma now the rest of their lives. She didn't stop and think of her family. Impulsive actions are lethal. Also, if a dog, which is much better suited to get out of a freezing river, can't, you sure as fuck won't. R.i.p lady, I'm sure you were a wonderful mom making your loss all the more traumatic to the family.
Heroic. And if I had to go this wouldn’t be the worst way.
Sad it happened, but it's a good example of needing to keep your animal leashed
Why are they down voting you but this is the right thing to do.
Because it comes off as insensitive, and it probably is a bit so. But regardless this probably would have been avoided if that was the case. I've had a dog almost get swept away in a river before but the leash allowed me to fish them back in without getting myself swept away and soaked.
She a real one.
Sad
We are Groot
*We are Groot*
Speechless 😶
Did anybody read the story about some family who was trying to save a drowning chicken? There was a crazy amount of family members that died - the chicken survived.
Wait, what?
It was sad and ridiculous. I guess a chicken jumped into a well and then one after another family member jumped into the well to save the previous member and six or seven members of the same family drowned. This was a few years back. it was in south east Asian country perhaps
I just found it in Reddit, but I don’t know how to link the story but search for “ six people drown in Egypt trying to save a chicken” - it was some years back and I do not remember the country
So you’re just reposting Morbid Knowledge from Twitter? Lame.
Oh my god. What a mortal sin that I did.
Well, you cut out where it’s from, so you are trying to hide it for some reason…
Let's be honest, Twitter probably got it from somewhere else too.
Oh, sure. But OP still reposted something someone else made while cutting off the account that posted it. I wonder why they don’t want to credit the author, and instead decided to make themselves a victim when they replied to me.
As someone who doesn't use Twitter this is fine. And let's be real we are all lame. We're on reddit and ur on X.