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Dog Rescued After Found 135 Miles Out at Sea!

A heartwarming story off the Gulf a Thailand where a young dog was found swimming 135 miles from shore. Workers on an oil rig noticed the dog’s head poking out above the ripples as she paddled through the ocean last Friday. They called out to the exhausted animal and she swam towards them, taking refuge among the rusty metal bars of the rig.

Workers lowered a rope down to the brown Aspin dog and pulled her to safety. She stayed on the drilling platform for two nights while a special cage was welded together and staff gave her food and water. The dog was finally lifted by crane on to another oil vessel passing through the area yesterday. She was taken to vets in Songkhla, southern Thailand. Oil rig worker Khon Vitisak, who saved the animal, said he does not know how she came to be in the ocean but he would like to adopt her if no owner comes forward.

Khon Vitisak who rescue the animal said: “We found her trying to swim towards our rig, which is about 135 miles from the shore. Thankfully the sea was quite still because the wind was calm.”

“We just saw her small head but if the ripples were bigger, I think we probably wouldn’t have noticed her at all.”

“After she made it onto the bars below the rig she didn’t cry or bark at all. We looked for a way to help her and in the end, decided to use the rope to tie around her body to lift her up.”

“When we first took her onboard her she was depressed and tired from being in the water for a long time . She had lost her body water.”

“When he gave her water and minerals her symptoms improved. She started sitting up and walking normally.”

Animal charity volunteers who are now caring for the dog do not know if she has an owner of if she was a stray. It’s possible she swam from the shore or boarded a boat then jumped off. Once she reached the rig, workers nursed the dog back to health while they radioed for help and requested a tanker that was returning to shore to stop by and collect her.

She was sent to the animal charity Watchdog Thailand today who took her to be checked over by vets. Watchdog Thailand had said the boat arrived at 10am and the dog was in good spirits. They took her to the vets to be checked and she was found to be healthy.

“Everybody who played a part in co-coordinating the rescue has done a brilliant job.”

a woman and a dog sitting in the water: The dog lies on the metal grates of the rig with the rope still fastened around her body

Workers were able to pull the dog up onto the ship for safety. a couple of people on a raft in a body of water: Workers from the oil rig in the Gulf of Thailand pet the dog after they saved her but mystery surrounds how she got thereOil rig worker Khon Vitisak, who rescued the dog, offers her a bucket of water which she readily accepts

The dog was severely dehydrated when they found her, many believe that she wouldn’t of lasted much longer had they not heard her cries for help.a close up of a map

April 17, 2019/by Chil

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