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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47330924?fbclid=IwAR2MD167ZIeeXSJX9aU0y23dbIgwxutWZxArnCMJ26JrklPgzJlNLNJk-N8
Kind-hearted Estonian workers rushed to rescue a dog in distress from a freezing river on Wednesday - unaware of the fact they were actually about to bundle a wild wolf into their car.
The men were working on the Sindi dam on the Parnu river when they spotted the animal trapped in the icy water.
After clearing a path through the ice, they took the frozen canine to a clinic for medical care.
Mosby
(16,297 posts)I'm all for helping wild animals.
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)The expression on that wolf's face is priceless, like it can't believe it's fallen so far as to get bundled into a car by humans. (It's probably actually terrified but I like my interpretation better.)
janx
(24,128 posts)murielm99
(30,733 posts)I am glad it is all right.
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)I hope it's been set free to regale the rest of the pack with a wild, embroidered story of its ordeal.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Thank you for sharing this Beringia!
malaise
(268,903 posts)Rec
efhmc
(14,725 posts)HAB911
(8,880 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,320 posts)
Speaking to the Estonian newspaper Postimees, one of the men, Rando Kartsepp, said: "We had to carry him over the slope. He weighed a fair bit."
"He was calm, slept on my legs. When I wanted to stretch them, he raised his head for a moment," he added.
Nice photos with the article, too.
And more photos from the Postimees newspaper article, linked from the BBC article, including:
Beringia
(4,316 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,320 posts)Glad the wolf remained calm. Things could have gone badly, otherwise.
Thanks for finding and posting that pick-me-up.
catbyte
(34,367 posts)That picture...
Bayard
(22,051 posts)So glad he was found by kind people, and rescued.
Love wolves!
Baitball Blogger
(46,699 posts)Presumably he'll outgrow it and it will choke him as he becomes an adult.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)hunter
(38,309 posts)... and then things got weird.
His expression says it all.
lilactime
(657 posts)yonder
(9,663 posts)magicarpet
(14,144 posts)He could save himself a shit ton of humiliation and ridicule.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)DFW
(54,338 posts)No wonder they didn't recognize him............
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)Beringia
(4,316 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)nancy1942
(635 posts)Best thing I've read in a long long time. Heartwarming and funny too.
Raine
(30,540 posts)that it had a happy ending for all!