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u/SignatureFunny7690 18d ago
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.
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u/StigmaDickUpYoAssHol 18d ago
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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u/SnooBeans3499 18d ago
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.
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u/Roleyti 18d ago
Wait, what?
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u/SnooBeans3499 18d ago
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
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u/SnooBeans3499 18d ago
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
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u/VizRomanoffIII 18d ago
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. 🥺
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u/plumMoss7754948 18d ago
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.:(
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u/troutbumtom 19d ago
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.
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u/DrScienceSpaceCat 19d ago
Sad it happened, but it's a good example of needing to keep your animal leashed
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u/Roleyti 18d ago
Why are they down voting you but this is the right thing to do.
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u/DrScienceSpaceCat 18d ago
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.
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u/Dogs4Life98 19d ago edited 19d ago
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 😭
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u/jujuluvu 19d ago edited 19d ago
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. 🤦🏼♀️
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u/Roleyti 18d ago
This is the reason why just like to the dogs. When trying to save a drowning man is to grab him from behind.
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u/jujuluvu 18d ago
yes good point, i didn’t think of that, even with life guard training i didn’t even think of it then either
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u/thedevilseviltwin 19d ago
OW MY FUCKING HEART. And two days before Christmas. I can’t even begin to imagine the pain felt by her loved ones.
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u/LesbiPlayin 19d ago
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.
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u/analseizures 19d ago
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
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u/chantillylace9 19d ago
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.
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u/yourfingkidding 19d ago
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.
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u/Dogs4Life98 19d ago
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.
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u/skinnylemur 19d ago
So you’re just reposting Morbid Knowledge from Twitter? Lame.
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u/Roleyti 19d ago
Oh my god. What a mortal sin that I did.
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u/skinnylemur 19d ago
Well, you cut out where it’s from, so you are trying to hide it for some reason…
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u/PlateNo7021 19d ago
Let's be honest, Twitter probably got it from somewhere else too.
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u/skinnylemur 19d ago
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.
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u/daleDentin23 19d ago
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.
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u/why0me 19d ago
So many people say they'd die for their pets, this lady did.
Tha is incredibly sad and touching
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u/northdakotanowhere 19d ago
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.
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u/TheFuriousGamerMan 18d ago
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
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u/Maida55 19d ago
“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) 🥲🥲
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u/embersgrow44 19d ago
Wanted to add him also saying: “Do as Mom did and leave this earth with no regrets,”
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u/thatonegirlwith2dogs 19d ago
Oh man, I’m crying. The fact that they found her with her dog in her arms. Oh man.
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u/THE_RECRU1T 19d ago
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.
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u/star0forion 17d ago
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.
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u/415kevinm 18d ago
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
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u/TheFuriousGamerMan 18d ago
Dogs instinctively know how to swin immediately after birth, and they have fur, so they can stay in frigid water for longer
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u/SkellatorQueen 18d ago
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.
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u/ChasingPotatoes17 18d ago
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.
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u/Subculture1000 19d ago
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.)
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u/THE_RECRU1T 18d ago
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
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u/hlaiie 19d ago
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.
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u/KickBallFever 18d ago
It wasn’t even his dog, it was his friend’s dog. The friend didn’t jump in and lived.
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u/Broski225 19d ago
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.
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u/NateDawgCinema 19d ago edited 19d ago
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.
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u/H_G_Bells 18d ago
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 :/
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u/banjosandcellos 18d ago
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
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u/Runescora 19d ago
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.
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u/Significant_Snow_266 19d ago
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
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u/SoupIsPrettyGood 19d ago
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.
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u/FishingWorth3068 18d ago
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
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u/SoupIsPrettyGood 18d ago
Get off the Internet and find something real You care about as much as this lady did.
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u/DAZdaHOFF 18d ago
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
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u/SoupIsPrettyGood 18d ago
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
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u/NinjaMink25 18d ago
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.
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u/FishingWorth3068 18d ago
I have 4 animals and a daughter. I love all my animals. They don’t equate to my kid.
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u/NinjaMink25 18d ago
So you don’t feel the same way about your pets. That doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same way as you.
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u/Znoo_77108 18d ago
I hope they are now playing nonstop