How my walk in the forest turned into a rescue mission [True story, just happened] (2 Viewers)

maruberry · 13 July 2019

So today me and my mother decided to go on a nice long walk with our dog Rudolf! We went over a field and through a forest, over another field onto a road in a forest and the some more! It truly was a LONG walk! (I even took some pictures... I'll post them below)

Rudolf got quite thirsty and tired during it, since he is a really old dog (13 years old, which is well... REALLY old for dogs) and wefound some water in a trench next to the road. Rudolf jumped in straight away to have a drink and that is when the problem started.

turns out the bottom of the trench had a lot of mud and the mud was deep. And the side of the trench was also really steep. Rudolf tried to pull himself out and at first was even able to walk a few steps. He managed to get his legs onto the bank but turned out he was too weak to push himself up the steep side. He slid back down. By now he was already also really tired and his legs had sunk too deep into the mud for him to pull them out.

Until this point me and my mom hoped he would be able to get himself out, but it was obvious that wasn't gonna happen. So it didn't take long for us to decide what to do. I was wearing shorts so I took my socks and shoes off and climbed in. The mud really was deep, I sunk in almost to me knees! I moved the dog so his front paws were on the side of the trench and then lifted his back legs out of the mud, my mother pulled him by his front legs out.

Thankfully the dog was fine and even felt better afterwards thanks to the water! The only result was that both me and him were utterly covered with mud!