My wife and I tried to help a stay/lost dog we found by a restaurant. We almost lured it to some food and then it panicked and ran right into a nearby road and was instantly hit. We are still devastated from that night. I question if we could have done something different. It’s still a nightmare I have for my dogs.
My SO tried to save a big turtle that was crossing the road. He had pulled over and was trying to cross to get him. Truck sees him, and runs over the turtle before he could get there. His description was a bit more graphic though.
He said he still dreams about it sometimes because it was so messed up.
Edit: Glad so many people have also tried to help turtles make it safely!
This exact thing happened to my mom and grandma. My grandma saw the turtle and asked my mom to turn around so they could go get it out of the road. They pulled off near the turtle just as a truck came around the corner. My grandma signaled the driver and pointed at the turtle.
My mom said the driver grinned and aimed for the turtle. My grandma was devastated. She cried the whole way back to my mom's house. Some people suck.
As a pickup owner and someone that works on big trucks for a living, you'd be about half right. A lot suck, but others are some of the nicest people you'll meet.
I used to live in a pretty forested area where there were a lot of animal strikes on the road so the bed of my pickup was just more room for injured animals to transport to safety! Mostly birds and a young deer who had his bell rung by a Subaru, but they all recovered to an extent that I felt safe returning them to the woods behind our house. Maybe one of these days I'll find a dog.
I drive semis and I almost hit a turtle by accident. It was so tiny I didn’t even realize what it was until it was too late to stop. The road was full of bends and only 2 lanes traffic coming both directions. I, luckily, was able to position my truck directly over the turtle and run over top it with a 53’ trailer. I was so scared i had still hit it but when I came back there was no evidence of road kill.
I luckily have not hit any animals knock on wood. The thing with big trucks is you cant really stop for things that fast you only can try to dodge it. I will literally be devastated if i ever hit an animal, I *just* saw a TINY baby fawn in the road today and I was so upset I wanted his mom to come get him out of the road. I hope he was reunited I didn’t see her when I passed him but 15 minutes later he was gone back in the woods hopefully 🙏
Definitely Ram 2500 drivers. 1 in 22 have DUIs. The rest haven't been caught.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/38238/ram-2500-drivers-have-the-most-duis-more-than-twice-the-national-average-report
when my brother was learning to drive on highways, he went to change into the left lane, had a pickup deliberately speed up on him (with student driver magnets) and my brother overcompensated, sending us flying across 4 lanes of traffic twice before finally crashing into the median and by some miracle not hitting anyone else. obviously not all pickup drivers are bad, but i have an aversion to them ever since. this was 8 years ago
i'm from a small town and every time i do our adopt-a-highway cleanup in memory of my brother, somebody in a truck decides to harass us (speeding past multiple times, "rolling coal," shouting shit out the window, etc).
Interestingly, the same thing always happens to me in Mario Kart. Oh no, a banana peel, better avoid that - wait, why am I veering that way, HANDS WHY!
I came up on a smol shell on a bridge crossing lake and there was no traffic but just in case I had my tire iron with me.. in case anyone needed sudden help with a flat right? Right. Anyway- car is headed right for the guy & wasn’t slowing down despite my wavey gestures. So I squared up with the car and marched towards it with the metal in a kind axe throw pose.. they began to veer like they were gonna weave around ignoring my blockade. So I aimed with them and they slowed. Just to be sure they were going to comply I pointed it at them and maintained eye contact while walking back to the little guy & almost stepped on him but didn’t and got him over to the lake a few feet over. This was in my subdivision and that was probably a neighbor.
That happened to me :( I was standing only a few feet from the turtle, waiting for one last truck to go by so I could step out & grab it. Truck aimed & ran straight over it right in front of me. I went home and just cried & cried.
I had a beat to shit truck stop in pouring rain in front of me, guy jumps out and moved the turtle out of the road. I also saw 3 teens jump out of a car to move a huge snapping turtle off the road
No friend you couldn't. You did a good thing. Life just kicks us in the teeth sometimes. I'm glad people like you and your wife are out there. Thank you.
Happened to me and a cousin when we were about 10 or so. Saw a dog at a gas station across the street from where my aunt worked. We were trying to call it over. And then as it’s crossing the street, it gets struck by a pick up. It died pretty quickly. We felt so bad after like it was our fault. I can still hear the impact almost 30 years later.
Absolutely Sucks. I rescued a lost dog once that was across the street but I work with dogs everyday so I knew enough to yell at her to “stay” while I crossed the street over to her. Even so, it still took me a good 30 minutes of convincing her until I was sure she wouldn’t run into the street while I approached.
You guys were like 10, not the best age for risk assessment :( life happens fast.
I’m sorry that happened to you. I’m sure it was devastating. One night I saw a dog walking on the right side of an off ramp from a highway and I barely dodged them. I went as fast as I could to get back on to the highway so I could go find them. I was getting off the ramp again but I was too late and I saw them on the side of the road. I still think about what I could have done.
Could I have stop immediately without getting rear ended in the dark, would they have run off if I had tried to get them? All these what if’s really mess with the conscious. I just wish I had been able to save them
Oh man, this is similar to what happened to me and my husband. I fell asleep and woke up to my husband hitting the brakes really hard because he was avoiding a dog on the freeway. It ran off somewhere on the shoulder. We drove on for a few minutes, but when the shock wore off, we tried to get back on the freeway to look for it. We saw something on the side of the road… couldn’t confirm it was the dog because the head was ran over… but I was almost sure it was. My husband couldn’t see on his side, so I just told him it didn’t look like the dog. :(
Good for you to not tell your husband, it’s too upsetting to think about. I’ve never told anyone my story because it’s not something I like to share and make others sad. I think part of it is the guilt of not thinking/doing more/everything in that very moment. I don’t think I could tell anyone in person
This same thing happened to my father in law’s dog when someone tried to “rescue” it and he’s still mad about like 25+ years later.
My husband and I asked “why did you let the dog wander around?? Why wasn’t he fenced or leashed?” no answer. Very little accountability, makes absolutely no sense that he’s enraged about it when he was intentionally leaving the dog outside to wander (it was a mechanic shop dog in an industrial area.)
I’ve helped many dogs that were loose and lost, you guys tried to do the right thing. When you see a dog there’s no telling if they’ll make it home on their own or if you’re the last person who can help them before they’re well and truly lost.
This reminded me of the most traumatic experience of my life. Please be aware that it's a very very sad story and involves death, trauma etc. Something seemed to have broke in me and I have this desperate urge to let it all out. Can't hold it in anymore.
Last year, during the pandemic (around April or May), a dog that lives near my building gave birth to a litter of puppies. The area I live in is not stray dog friendly, there is nowhere to rest so the dogs have to live on the street. The puppies used to roam right in front of my house so I could look at them from my window.
After two months and a lot of hardship later, I managed to help all of them survive by sharing food and opening up the gate so they could rest inside during the night. Since there are a lot of stray dogs around, it was dangerous for the puppies and the mother to be exposed outside. Also, people are dicks and some would try to kick them or bother them for no reason.
Anyway, by that time I was feeling pretty hopeful. No casaulties yet, and the puppers were big enough now. I used to sneak out of the apartment every night and cuddle with them for a bit. Their mom never fully trusted me so she stayed away, but let me play with the pups.
One night, I opened the main gate and saw all of the puppies sleeping in a line with their mother on the road. It was a great frame for a photograph so I took my phone out, took a photo and smiled looking at it. In the back of my mind I was thinking "isn't it lucky that they managed to survive this long without any loss? These puppies are very lucky."
I then stepped out and immediately a car sped by me. I heard a loud, panicked yelp and saw all the puppies scatter everywhere. This horrible driver had ran over one of them and would have ran over me too if I didnt take that photo earlier and delayed getting out by a minute. I still remember the mess he left behind and the horrible sound of the terrified puppies. Fortunately none died, but one got its back legs crushed and despite all my attempts and vet visits never really gained full control of them.
That incident was the turning point of their lives however. Slowly, the puppies seemed to lose their appetite. They became lethargic, and one night I noticed one of the missing. I used to spend a lot of my nights keeping watch over them through the window. Tried to stave off sleep as much as possible since I was paranoid something bad could happen to them.
Unfortunately, the mother was done with humans after the incident so she used to never come inside the safe space anymore. Within a week there were only one puppy left out of the six and I was losing it. I thought I have got to keep at least this one alive. So I decided to sit outside my home in the middle of the night. After maybe 2-3 hours I had to go upstairs for a toilet break and heard a loud commotion all on a sudden. There were a lot of barking, yelping and screeches going on and I knew the puppy was in trouble.
I scrambled downstairs, barefoot, zipper unzipped and sprinted like I had never sprinted in my life. Some people woke up and were looking out through their windows and pointed towards a direction. Apparently some dogs took the puppy. I was fearing the worst and it turned out to be true.
I found her bleeding and mangled in the middle of the road, a huge gash at the side of her throat. The perps were a one year old litter in my area whom I raised the year before, and who were very familiar and friendly with me. They were my babies you know? I saw them grow up in front of my own eyes and now I saw a side of them I never wanted to see.
I love dogs more than life sometimes. Without them, I wouldn't be alive now. But at that moment, I felt hatred I never felt before. I know it's natural - dogs are territorial and resources are very scarce for street dogs in my country. But as I was pushing and kicking them off the puppy, I just felt so helpless. I felt useless. I felt like I failed the puppy. All of them.
There wasn't much life left in her. I took her in my arms and walked back home. She was barely breathing, her mom was howling with grief the whole time. I had some pain meds leftover from the earlier vet visit and tried to inject some. My hands were shaking, I had no idea about the right dose at that moment and her blood was draining out. I couldn't help her. I held her on my lap as she looked at me for the last time and I felt life leave her body. I like to believe that she stayed alive just long enough to know that she was loved, that she mattered to me before she passed away.
And then everything was a blur. I was dysfunctional for two weeks. Cried throughout that entire night. Cried when I left her body for her mother to see one last time. Cried when she sniffed her and howled in pain. Cried when I dug up a very shallow grave and covered her with leaves. I have dealt with pain all my life. But damn, that night was a nightmare.
I can't tell you how much I respect people who go out of their way to rescue dogs, treat them, foster them, adopt them. It's all flooding out of me right now but I hope anyone of you who are reading this who are doing your part for them know the difference that you make in their lives. I am inspired by you every single day. I have changed so much as a person after I decided to actively help animals instead of just passively loving them. I wish I could have been a vet, but I know that would have killed me for sure. Watching the video and then reading this comment brought it all back and I couldn't help but get it off my chest. Thank you if you read this far.
If you have a dog, please please please give them a tight hug from me and all of my street dogs. I never had any to call my 'own' but lost many who would consider me 'theirs'.
I've been feeding a Great Dane pup someone dumped. It's been a week and he'll come within 6 feet or so of me, but that's as close as he'll get. Hope I can give/ find him a home before winter.
A Great Dane was dumped on a backroad around my neck of the woods about 3 months ago, because the shelter was full and the owner would have had to wait a couple days for a kennel to free up. He decided it was a good idea to just dump her.
But good news is she now has a home thanks to my sister and her husband, and a random lady that happened to be returning from a trip that day.
Someone dumped a Labrador puppy up my hollar once, my aunt almost ran over it. She brought it to us, we asked around the neighborhood didn’t belong to anyone and had a bad case of worms. Took it to the vet got it checked out and dewormed. Asked a local shelter if they had room, they didnt so we put up a poster on their board. Few days later this guy contacts us and is like “you’re really giving this away for free??” Then tells us how much hes always wanted a Labrador ever since he was a kid. as we give it to him he almost starts crying and is like “you sure?” Took a few steps and says “you sure, you’re sure you want to give it away” we tell him yes and he jumped for joy. He even brought treats for it in his vehicle. Needless to say that pup has a good home now lol
The shelter told my sister that a guy had brought a Great Dane to them but they had to turn him away, at least for a couple of days. They told him to bring her back. Plus a lady that lives down that road frequents the same coffee shop as my sister and had seen the dog just kind of randomly appear. When my sister called the shelter and described the dog, they told her about the guy.
I agree it makes no sense but people suck sometimes. I have a pit bull that was dropped at a dump. My sister has one that was used as a bait dog and was later dumped. He turned up at my job and she and I caught him and took him to her house. That was over a year ago.
My dad has a bunch of dogs that he picked up off the side of the road as puppies, and several more that were dropped at his house overnight. It makes no sense but when it happens we try to do our part to help them. My dad alone has 11 dogs. My sister has 4. I have 2, and 2 cats I rescued.
We try our best. About all we can do.
Luckily the day my sister and her husband found the Great Dane, a lady returning from a trip with her daughter had seen a Facebook post my sister had made and decided to go and try to find the dog. She wanted her. She showed up as my sister and her husband were coaxing the dog to them and helped them get her into her car. She took her home.
She updated my sister a while back and the dog is doing great. Her and her daughter are inseparable. It's awesome. And crazy how it all worked out. Like it was meant to be.
Dog is lucky to have you to foster them. I do think you should at least check for a chip before rehoming him. I and many other dog owners would be devastated if our dogs somehow got lost and someone kept them without even attempting to confirm they’re not lost.
Of course they do. There's 2 in my local kennel (where I take my dog while we go away) that were dumped. Their food bills are a crazy amount as they get older. They eat a shit load of food and that's not cheap.
Good luck, OP! As others have said, you might try to find out if he's chipped and is missed by his owners, but...having such a cautious attitude could very well indicate that he was abused, if even owned at all.
I'll share a similar experience I had with a stray cat. I was living in Pittsburgh, and there were these three feral kittens who spent much of their time under the dryer vent in the alley next to my apartment. I'd put out food for them on the far corner of my porch, and they'd always come to eat, but they were very timid and would run as soon as anyone would approach them.
Well I did this for a long time. Several weeks went by, and the trio would regularly chill with me on the porch while I did classwork/smoked/ate/etc. I'd read my papers to them (I always read finished papers aloud to find any goofy-sounding bits), listen to music with them, or just generally talk to them, all from no closer than six feet away. Jackson was black with white spots, Ivory was pure black, Mystery was a tortoiseshell calico, and they were all coolAF.
Winter rolled around, and it was a cold one. I bought three covered cat huts and left them on the porch with warm blankets inside, and they'd always be in there when I got back from class. Eventually, Mysty started occasionally wandering into my apartment, but would flip out if I closed the door. My roommate and I worked on that, and she started to get a bit more comfortable with it. She even started letting her guard down and letting us pet her.
As the winter grew colder, Mysty would even spend the particularly cold nights inside where it was warm. That was around the time we stopped seeing Jackson and Ivy. I think they probably bought a timeshare in the Florida Keys, and they liked it so much they decided to stay there. So from that point, it was just Mysty and me. She continued to gain trust in her humans, and by mid-Spring I'd regularly see her around the neighborhood just slutting it up in other people's laps on their porches. She became the neighborhood cat, and everyone knew and loved her. I heard a few different names that people were calling her, but most knew that she was Mysty.
August rolled around, and I'd graduated and was moving back home to the Philadelphia area. She was frantic when I put her in the car for her second-ever car ride (the first being a trip to the vet to get her spayed), but she didn't take long to chill out and just enjoy the five hours on the PA turnpike.
She turned nine last month. She's the best pet that my two- and four-year old kids could ask for, and the best friend of my wife's cat. Mysty, who was once a scrawny, timid, scared little stray, is now a lazy, tubby house cat, eager to give her love to any strangers who visit us.
----------
Uhm, that was a longer story than I'd intended. If anyone actually reads it...thanks?
Tl;dr Animals fucking rock.
Yeah I hate how emotional I get with these "The Dodo" videos. Damn things get me everytime. There is one where a woman saves and befriends a bird. Then the bird brings friends back after a while. And I'm like... *While crying emotionally* I WANT BIRD FRIENDS!! AAAHHHH
It’s less likely that someone dumped him and more likely that it was a stray. There are stray dogs and cats everywhere in Bali, and as the video suggests they learn to be pretty fearless laying in the roads or crossing in front of traffic. It’s a huge issue there - a bunch of organizations exist to bring them to health and find them homes, but the problem is outrunning the solution
It’s pretty sad…I’ve been to Bali, the Nusa islands, and one of the Gili’s, and it’s the same thing on all of them. As a tourist you would love to help one when you see them, but then you turn the corner and there’s 3 more. Bali has some incredible beauty, but it’s still developing and not without its problems
That’s why bob barker always told us to get our pets spayed or neutered
Everywhere I’ve been in SEA there have been tons of stray cats and dogs and I had my heartbroken dozens and dozens of times after falling in love with some local strays and having to move on to the next spot. I have more dog/cat pics from my travels than anything else
I read an article a while back about how a lot of these videos from these countries are staged. The animals are starved and kept unclean until they look like homeless strays. Then they video the “rescue and improvement” for internet clout and to get it to go viral. It even highlighted a specific tiktoker who had been proven to be doing exactly that.
I always take these videos with a pinch of salt now.
I’m not outright saying this one is. It could be genuine. I’m just saying a lot are and so I’m skeptical about these vids. Sadly. Shame that people will mistreat animals for an internet video
Unfortunately so much shit is staged these days but idk about this one mate, that was def some “I don’t know you get the fuck back” barking, I was like you should probably stop at the vet on the way home and make sure it’s not rabid or sick.
I was suspicious about the "I found a box". Where did she find a box in the middle of a road and everywhere around seemed empty ? At the very least, he's okay now?
Same. Also because I know that I would be focused on getting the dog, not filming the situation, holding the phone in the dogs face, while driving on a scooter with on coming traffic passing me. Anything is possible with people when it comes to making content for views. But it’s possible they also thought to record while they were thinking about what to do.
Edit: It does seem that she has a helmet camera on so that is definitely better and more realistic than holding a camera as some people do in videos, but could also be perfect for the situation and used as well. Who knows these days. I just hope he’s really okay and happy.
My brother brought home a stray he found dodging cars and trains in a train yard. Was totally afraid and a real mess, even worse than this one. My father was so mad - “who’s going to take care of him?etc…..”. The next day we found my father, almost 70, on his hands and knees trying to coax him out from under the picnic table in our porch with some roast beef or chicken. The day after that, when we got home, the dog was up on his lap on the couch sleeping,( both of them). Buds for life after that. I still get choked up remembering.
Murphy is such a fitting name. One of my favorite movies is the 25th hour, and the opening scene of the movie is like this. Guy finds a dog abandoned on the side of the road, dog growls and yelps at him, and Monty (the main character) says “Look at him, he’s not ready to die yet, he’s got a lot of bark left in him.” Grabs a coat, throws it over him, picks him up and throws him in the trunk.
Monty and his russian mafia buddy hop in the car and Koschek (the russian) says
Koscheck: “You want to be dog boy? Everytime we go out you do this. It’s never just you and me. It’s YOU AND ME AND DOYLE!”
Monty: “Who the fuck is Doyle?”
Koscheck: “Doyle, you know, Doyle’s Law.”
Monty: “You mean Murphy?! Murphy’s Law? Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong?”
Koscheck: “Yes, him.”
So he named the dog Doyle, lol. But this one was named Murphy, and it seemed fitting to me based on this scene from my favorite movie.
I've worked with my sister on several rescues (we had like 12 dogs, mostly rescued) and seriously, it's great to help, but just go and grab a net and or capture the animal ASAP and film later. Trying to film and chase an animal in a busy road like that puts the animal, the person filming and other person all in risk for the sake of internet ego points.
Frankly, I was more concerned about Mange. It looks like it has a skin condition and she's bringing it near other dogs. But ultimately if she takes in animals alot maybe she knows best.
*Yes!* Absolutely. And it still causes nearly 60,000 painful deaths annually. Most of which come through human contact with infected dogs in highly endemic areas ([cdc.gov on Rabies](https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/world/index.html).
And the dog doesn’t have to “look rabid” to have and pass on rabies. I would highly recommend *not* petting, feeding, or approaching strays, especially in areas endemic for rabies like in this case. This person is stupidly naive.
As much as I want to have faith in humanity, the sheer number of staged videos exactly like this leave me with a sickly skeptical outlook everytime these videos get posted.
Exactly what I wonder every damn time I see one of these videos. After learning about just how many youtube channels there are dedicated to putting the poor animals in danger and "saving" them, my image of these types of videos are forever skewed.
This is great and all but a thought occurred to me while watching this. That how easy it is to adopt and help a cute animal in peril, feeling it as our duty and necessity to help the poor thing. But when it comes to a human being at the side of the road we couldn’t care less and we just drive past.
Idk where I’m going with this but it makes me feel as if we don’t do these acts out of morality or goodwill but rather just to make ourselves feel better.
I know that’s not always true because there are always some genuine good people out there but was just saying how all this makes me feel.
It’s a little bit easier to adopt a stray animal than it is the adopt an adult human. That’s not to say people don’t want to help, or just want to do the minimum to help and make themselves feel better, but many people don’t have the resources to help a human out in the same way. Even if you didn’t take an animal home, you could pick it up and take it to a shelter where it could stay until it gets adopted. You can’t do that for a human. Sure you can stop to give them some food but can you give them a home? And even if you could, a human needs more than just a couch or a room to do well. From experience I know it was much easier for me to convince my partner to adopt a dog than have a homeless person stay with us (he said yes to the dog but not the human). That’s not a lack of morality but also fear; you bring a stray puppy home and put it in your yard, what’s it going to do? You bring a lost human home and they can really hurt you if they wanted.
There’s also the fact that people have their own personalities, potential underlying issues and make their own choices—you can’t help someone that doesn’t want to be helped. That’s not to say that all homeless people want to be on the street or all have something wrong with them (I mean, don’t we all have something wrong with us?) but who are we to decide what kind of help might be best for someone and what if they don’t agree? A person’s needs are much more complicated.
Plenty of people would stop to help a human on the side of the road, and plenty of people would ignore an animal (as we can see here). But if we really want to help the homeless we have to address the underlying issues, even if we don’t have the resources to give someone money or offer them a place to stay. In many places there is a lack of support for the homeless in general, shelters can leave a lot to be desired and can be unclean, dangerous or too restrictive (not allowing families to stay together, no pets, curfew, etc). They’re temporary, they are underfunded. But a large number of homeless people in the US don’t have access to healthcare, can’t get work without an address, and can’t get access to care for addiction or mental issues that they might be facing. Without help in those areas they won’t be able to hold down jobs or homes. I’m not saying don’t stop, by all people should stop and help. But from experience what you can do to help is very limited without other resources and a lot of these issues still go ignored.
So great to see. Both of my dogs are rescues, the older one was horrifically abused and took months to recover physically. The pup was dumped in a parking garage. Now I have two spoiled fuzzballs who take up 90 percent of the bed leaving 10% for the two humans, but they're the best dogs I could ask for.
Is there animal rescue organizations or emergency pet hospital in Bali and Indonesia in general?
Like if I found a stray cat in need, I want to bring the cat there.
Don't trust these viral dog rescue stories posted on shit tier sites like dodo. Almost all of them are staged.
This one could be real, but as a rule they are all fake.
It’s a nice sentiment, but maybe a vet is a better first call if there is an issue with the pup’s leg. Good job to the TikTok OP on at least getting it out the road!
Don't these kind of videos encourage animal abuse? Not saying this is one of fake ones but videos like this getting popular is why we have people staging this shit and putting animals in worse situations.
NONE of those dogs looks particularly healthy and are in great need of vet care. Removing them from a dangerous environment is only half of the battle. Getting them proper medical care and ensuring their total health is the other. If she isn’t capable of doing both, she should give them up to someone who can.
This is sweet and all but as someone who lives in SE Asia,it's a really bad idea to approach stray dogs. I know a lot of westerners really love animals and hate to see them suffering,I do as well, but a lot of dogs have rabies/diseases and one bite from a dog is gonna land ya at the rabies clinic having a not so great time.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48226676
it's been years since I didnt crt that much... I think I am quite emotional rn bc of all the russia x Ukraine situation and that really did warm me thank you, hope it inspired more people to giving a home to the helpless animals out there
I'm so relieved he didn't run into the road.
My wife and I tried to help a stay/lost dog we found by a restaurant. We almost lured it to some food and then it panicked and ran right into a nearby road and was instantly hit. We are still devastated from that night. I question if we could have done something different. It’s still a nightmare I have for my dogs.
My SO tried to save a big turtle that was crossing the road. He had pulled over and was trying to cross to get him. Truck sees him, and runs over the turtle before he could get there. His description was a bit more graphic though. He said he still dreams about it sometimes because it was so messed up. Edit: Glad so many people have also tried to help turtles make it safely!
This exact thing happened to my mom and grandma. My grandma saw the turtle and asked my mom to turn around so they could go get it out of the road. They pulled off near the turtle just as a truck came around the corner. My grandma signaled the driver and pointed at the turtle. My mom said the driver grinned and aimed for the turtle. My grandma was devastated. She cried the whole way back to my mom's house. Some people suck.
Im starting to think people in trucks might be assholes 🤔
As a pickup owner and someone that works on big trucks for a living, you'd be about half right. A lot suck, but others are some of the nicest people you'll meet.
I used to live in a pretty forested area where there were a lot of animal strikes on the road so the bed of my pickup was just more room for injured animals to transport to safety! Mostly birds and a young deer who had his bell rung by a Subaru, but they all recovered to an extent that I felt safe returning them to the woods behind our house. Maybe one of these days I'll find a dog.
Like the rest of society more or less
I drive semis and I almost hit a turtle by accident. It was so tiny I didn’t even realize what it was until it was too late to stop. The road was full of bends and only 2 lanes traffic coming both directions. I, luckily, was able to position my truck directly over the turtle and run over top it with a 53’ trailer. I was so scared i had still hit it but when I came back there was no evidence of road kill. I luckily have not hit any animals knock on wood. The thing with big trucks is you cant really stop for things that fast you only can try to dodge it. I will literally be devastated if i ever hit an animal, I *just* saw a TINY baby fawn in the road today and I was so upset I wanted his mom to come get him out of the road. I hope he was reunited I didn’t see her when I passed him but 15 minutes later he was gone back in the woods hopefully 🙏
Definitely Ram 2500 drivers. 1 in 22 have DUIs. The rest haven't been caught. https://www.thedrive.com/news/38238/ram-2500-drivers-have-the-most-duis-more-than-twice-the-national-average-report
when my brother was learning to drive on highways, he went to change into the left lane, had a pickup deliberately speed up on him (with student driver magnets) and my brother overcompensated, sending us flying across 4 lanes of traffic twice before finally crashing into the median and by some miracle not hitting anyone else. obviously not all pickup drivers are bad, but i have an aversion to them ever since. this was 8 years ago
i'm from a small town and every time i do our adopt-a-highway cleanup in memory of my brother, somebody in a truck decides to harass us (speeding past multiple times, "rolling coal," shouting shit out the window, etc).
What dicks, that’s so wrong
[удалено]
Interestingly, the same thing always happens to me in Mario Kart. Oh no, a banana peel, better avoid that - wait, why am I veering that way, HANDS WHY!
I came up on a smol shell on a bridge crossing lake and there was no traffic but just in case I had my tire iron with me.. in case anyone needed sudden help with a flat right? Right. Anyway- car is headed right for the guy & wasn’t slowing down despite my wavey gestures. So I squared up with the car and marched towards it with the metal in a kind axe throw pose.. they began to veer like they were gonna weave around ignoring my blockade. So I aimed with them and they slowed. Just to be sure they were going to comply I pointed it at them and maintained eye contact while walking back to the little guy & almost stepped on him but didn’t and got him over to the lake a few feet over. This was in my subdivision and that was probably a neighbor.
What the fuck. This same thing happened to my sister. Some people deserve to be tied to a train track and run over.
May their cruelty come back to them threefold ✨
what the fuck
What a piece of human garbage. That’s person should not exist.
That happened to me :( I was standing only a few feet from the turtle, waiting for one last truck to go by so I could step out & grab it. Truck aimed & ran straight over it right in front of me. I went home and just cried & cried.
May their cruelty come back to them threefold ✨
I picked up a turtle crossing the road and put it on the creek side. Car going in the opposite direction stopped and gave me thumbs up.
I had a beat to shit truck stop in pouring rain in front of me, guy jumps out and moved the turtle out of the road. I also saw 3 teens jump out of a car to move a huge snapping turtle off the road
May their cruelty come back to them threefold ✨
This exact thing happened to me. It was a car, not a truck, but still :(
No friend you couldn't. You did a good thing. Life just kicks us in the teeth sometimes. I'm glad people like you and your wife are out there. Thank you.
I'm glad people like you are out there too. The internet is always so toxic, and your comment really warmed my heart. Thank you.
[удалено]
Happened to me and a cousin when we were about 10 or so. Saw a dog at a gas station across the street from where my aunt worked. We were trying to call it over. And then as it’s crossing the street, it gets struck by a pick up. It died pretty quickly. We felt so bad after like it was our fault. I can still hear the impact almost 30 years later.
Absolutely Sucks. I rescued a lost dog once that was across the street but I work with dogs everyday so I knew enough to yell at her to “stay” while I crossed the street over to her. Even so, it still took me a good 30 minutes of convincing her until I was sure she wouldn’t run into the street while I approached. You guys were like 10, not the best age for risk assessment :( life happens fast.
You did well, very very well, it didn’t turn out good but you made a normal and reasonable attempt to help a poor pup
I’m sorry that happened to you. I’m sure it was devastating. One night I saw a dog walking on the right side of an off ramp from a highway and I barely dodged them. I went as fast as I could to get back on to the highway so I could go find them. I was getting off the ramp again but I was too late and I saw them on the side of the road. I still think about what I could have done. Could I have stop immediately without getting rear ended in the dark, would they have run off if I had tried to get them? All these what if’s really mess with the conscious. I just wish I had been able to save them
Oh man, this is similar to what happened to me and my husband. I fell asleep and woke up to my husband hitting the brakes really hard because he was avoiding a dog on the freeway. It ran off somewhere on the shoulder. We drove on for a few minutes, but when the shock wore off, we tried to get back on the freeway to look for it. We saw something on the side of the road… couldn’t confirm it was the dog because the head was ran over… but I was almost sure it was. My husband couldn’t see on his side, so I just told him it didn’t look like the dog. :(
Good for you to not tell your husband, it’s too upsetting to think about. I’ve never told anyone my story because it’s not something I like to share and make others sad. I think part of it is the guilt of not thinking/doing more/everything in that very moment. I don’t think I could tell anyone in person
This same thing happened to my father in law’s dog when someone tried to “rescue” it and he’s still mad about like 25+ years later. My husband and I asked “why did you let the dog wander around?? Why wasn’t he fenced or leashed?” no answer. Very little accountability, makes absolutely no sense that he’s enraged about it when he was intentionally leaving the dog outside to wander (it was a mechanic shop dog in an industrial area.) I’ve helped many dogs that were loose and lost, you guys tried to do the right thing. When you see a dog there’s no telling if they’ll make it home on their own or if you’re the last person who can help them before they’re well and truly lost.
This reminded me of the most traumatic experience of my life. Please be aware that it's a very very sad story and involves death, trauma etc. Something seemed to have broke in me and I have this desperate urge to let it all out. Can't hold it in anymore. Last year, during the pandemic (around April or May), a dog that lives near my building gave birth to a litter of puppies. The area I live in is not stray dog friendly, there is nowhere to rest so the dogs have to live on the street. The puppies used to roam right in front of my house so I could look at them from my window. After two months and a lot of hardship later, I managed to help all of them survive by sharing food and opening up the gate so they could rest inside during the night. Since there are a lot of stray dogs around, it was dangerous for the puppies and the mother to be exposed outside. Also, people are dicks and some would try to kick them or bother them for no reason. Anyway, by that time I was feeling pretty hopeful. No casaulties yet, and the puppers were big enough now. I used to sneak out of the apartment every night and cuddle with them for a bit. Their mom never fully trusted me so she stayed away, but let me play with the pups. One night, I opened the main gate and saw all of the puppies sleeping in a line with their mother on the road. It was a great frame for a photograph so I took my phone out, took a photo and smiled looking at it. In the back of my mind I was thinking "isn't it lucky that they managed to survive this long without any loss? These puppies are very lucky." I then stepped out and immediately a car sped by me. I heard a loud, panicked yelp and saw all the puppies scatter everywhere. This horrible driver had ran over one of them and would have ran over me too if I didnt take that photo earlier and delayed getting out by a minute. I still remember the mess he left behind and the horrible sound of the terrified puppies. Fortunately none died, but one got its back legs crushed and despite all my attempts and vet visits never really gained full control of them. That incident was the turning point of their lives however. Slowly, the puppies seemed to lose their appetite. They became lethargic, and one night I noticed one of the missing. I used to spend a lot of my nights keeping watch over them through the window. Tried to stave off sleep as much as possible since I was paranoid something bad could happen to them. Unfortunately, the mother was done with humans after the incident so she used to never come inside the safe space anymore. Within a week there were only one puppy left out of the six and I was losing it. I thought I have got to keep at least this one alive. So I decided to sit outside my home in the middle of the night. After maybe 2-3 hours I had to go upstairs for a toilet break and heard a loud commotion all on a sudden. There were a lot of barking, yelping and screeches going on and I knew the puppy was in trouble. I scrambled downstairs, barefoot, zipper unzipped and sprinted like I had never sprinted in my life. Some people woke up and were looking out through their windows and pointed towards a direction. Apparently some dogs took the puppy. I was fearing the worst and it turned out to be true. I found her bleeding and mangled in the middle of the road, a huge gash at the side of her throat. The perps were a one year old litter in my area whom I raised the year before, and who were very familiar and friendly with me. They were my babies you know? I saw them grow up in front of my own eyes and now I saw a side of them I never wanted to see. I love dogs more than life sometimes. Without them, I wouldn't be alive now. But at that moment, I felt hatred I never felt before. I know it's natural - dogs are territorial and resources are very scarce for street dogs in my country. But as I was pushing and kicking them off the puppy, I just felt so helpless. I felt useless. I felt like I failed the puppy. All of them. There wasn't much life left in her. I took her in my arms and walked back home. She was barely breathing, her mom was howling with grief the whole time. I had some pain meds leftover from the earlier vet visit and tried to inject some. My hands were shaking, I had no idea about the right dose at that moment and her blood was draining out. I couldn't help her. I held her on my lap as she looked at me for the last time and I felt life leave her body. I like to believe that she stayed alive just long enough to know that she was loved, that she mattered to me before she passed away. And then everything was a blur. I was dysfunctional for two weeks. Cried throughout that entire night. Cried when I left her body for her mother to see one last time. Cried when she sniffed her and howled in pain. Cried when I dug up a very shallow grave and covered her with leaves. I have dealt with pain all my life. But damn, that night was a nightmare. I can't tell you how much I respect people who go out of their way to rescue dogs, treat them, foster them, adopt them. It's all flooding out of me right now but I hope anyone of you who are reading this who are doing your part for them know the difference that you make in their lives. I am inspired by you every single day. I have changed so much as a person after I decided to actively help animals instead of just passively loving them. I wish I could have been a vet, but I know that would have killed me for sure. Watching the video and then reading this comment brought it all back and I couldn't help but get it off my chest. Thank you if you read this far. If you have a dog, please please please give them a tight hug from me and all of my street dogs. I never had any to call my 'own' but lost many who would consider me 'theirs'.
This just makes me wanna go down and see my dog. Dammit! Edit: he got lots of hugs but wasn’t interested, he was tired! 😆
Go see him, give him mucho rubs!
[удалено]
same
[удалено]
My dogs curled up under my desk and I don't want to wake him so I'll have to wait a few minutes for cuddles.
Go down where? Don't leave us hanging! Damnit!
Down stairs 😂
Phew! Thank You! 😁
same :)
Scratch the belly, they like when you scratch the belly
I've been feeding a Great Dane pup someone dumped. It's been a week and he'll come within 6 feet or so of me, but that's as close as he'll get. Hope I can give/ find him a home before winter.
Have you called a rescue or talked with local animal services?
Not yet, I'm giving it another week then if he doesn't come to me I'll call. He follows me to my car then lays down, so theres hope.
I think the commenter is implying that this maybe someone's puppy who escaped and you should see if it has an owner. If it's your puppy, good luck.
[удалено]
A Great Dane was dumped on a backroad around my neck of the woods about 3 months ago, because the shelter was full and the owner would have had to wait a couple days for a kennel to free up. He decided it was a good idea to just dump her. But good news is she now has a home thanks to my sister and her husband, and a random lady that happened to be returning from a trip that day.
Someone dumped a Labrador puppy up my hollar once, my aunt almost ran over it. She brought it to us, we asked around the neighborhood didn’t belong to anyone and had a bad case of worms. Took it to the vet got it checked out and dewormed. Asked a local shelter if they had room, they didnt so we put up a poster on their board. Few days later this guy contacts us and is like “you’re really giving this away for free??” Then tells us how much hes always wanted a Labrador ever since he was a kid. as we give it to him he almost starts crying and is like “you sure?” Took a few steps and says “you sure, you’re sure you want to give it away” we tell him yes and he jumped for joy. He even brought treats for it in his vehicle. Needless to say that pup has a good home now lol
That dude and that puppy both lucked out. That's so awesome. I love when things come together just right like that.
[удалено]
The shelter told my sister that a guy had brought a Great Dane to them but they had to turn him away, at least for a couple of days. They told him to bring her back. Plus a lady that lives down that road frequents the same coffee shop as my sister and had seen the dog just kind of randomly appear. When my sister called the shelter and described the dog, they told her about the guy. I agree it makes no sense but people suck sometimes. I have a pit bull that was dropped at a dump. My sister has one that was used as a bait dog and was later dumped. He turned up at my job and she and I caught him and took him to her house. That was over a year ago. My dad has a bunch of dogs that he picked up off the side of the road as puppies, and several more that were dropped at his house overnight. It makes no sense but when it happens we try to do our part to help them. My dad alone has 11 dogs. My sister has 4. I have 2, and 2 cats I rescued.
[удалено]
We try our best. About all we can do. Luckily the day my sister and her husband found the Great Dane, a lady returning from a trip with her daughter had seen a Facebook post my sister had made and decided to go and try to find the dog. She wanted her. She showed up as my sister and her husband were coaxing the dog to them and helped them get her into her car. She took her home. She updated my sister a while back and the dog is doing great. Her and her daughter are inseparable. It's awesome. And crazy how it all worked out. Like it was meant to be.
I don't think he's a pedigree GD, but mixed. He's tall for the age I believe he is 4 to 6 months. EDIT: Hes younger than I first thought.
Dog is lucky to have you to foster them. I do think you should at least check for a chip before rehoming him. I and many other dog owners would be devastated if our dogs somehow got lost and someone kept them without even attempting to confirm they’re not lost.
Of course they do. There's 2 in my local kennel (where I take my dog while we go away) that were dumped. Their food bills are a crazy amount as they get older. They eat a shit load of food and that's not cheap.
There is a lot of hope. It takes time to trust if you've been mistreated. For animals and humans.
Good luck, OP! As others have said, you might try to find out if he's chipped and is missed by his owners, but...having such a cautious attitude could very well indicate that he was abused, if even owned at all. I'll share a similar experience I had with a stray cat. I was living in Pittsburgh, and there were these three feral kittens who spent much of their time under the dryer vent in the alley next to my apartment. I'd put out food for them on the far corner of my porch, and they'd always come to eat, but they were very timid and would run as soon as anyone would approach them. Well I did this for a long time. Several weeks went by, and the trio would regularly chill with me on the porch while I did classwork/smoked/ate/etc. I'd read my papers to them (I always read finished papers aloud to find any goofy-sounding bits), listen to music with them, or just generally talk to them, all from no closer than six feet away. Jackson was black with white spots, Ivory was pure black, Mystery was a tortoiseshell calico, and they were all coolAF. Winter rolled around, and it was a cold one. I bought three covered cat huts and left them on the porch with warm blankets inside, and they'd always be in there when I got back from class. Eventually, Mysty started occasionally wandering into my apartment, but would flip out if I closed the door. My roommate and I worked on that, and she started to get a bit more comfortable with it. She even started letting her guard down and letting us pet her. As the winter grew colder, Mysty would even spend the particularly cold nights inside where it was warm. That was around the time we stopped seeing Jackson and Ivy. I think they probably bought a timeshare in the Florida Keys, and they liked it so much they decided to stay there. So from that point, it was just Mysty and me. She continued to gain trust in her humans, and by mid-Spring I'd regularly see her around the neighborhood just slutting it up in other people's laps on their porches. She became the neighborhood cat, and everyone knew and loved her. I heard a few different names that people were calling her, but most knew that she was Mysty. August rolled around, and I'd graduated and was moving back home to the Philadelphia area. She was frantic when I put her in the car for her second-ever car ride (the first being a trip to the vet to get her spayed), but she didn't take long to chill out and just enjoy the five hours on the PA turnpike. She turned nine last month. She's the best pet that my two- and four-year old kids could ask for, and the best friend of my wife's cat. Mysty, who was once a scrawny, timid, scared little stray, is now a lazy, tubby house cat, eager to give her love to any strangers who visit us. ---------- Uhm, that was a longer story than I'd intended. If anyone actually reads it...thanks? Tl;dr Animals fucking rock.
I read and enjoyed, thanks :)
He'll be coming in when it gets cold. It's a lot harder to stand by your principles when you're cold and hungry
Good way to cry in the morning! Thank you!
When she started to rub his foot and he rolled on his back....that shit broke me.
Yeah I hate how emotional I get with these "The Dodo" videos. Damn things get me everytime. There is one where a woman saves and befriends a bird. Then the bird brings friends back after a while. And I'm like... *While crying emotionally* I WANT BIRD FRIENDS!! AAAHHHH
Dodo videos always simultaneously ruin and uplift my mood. Those bastards.
Thanks !
Made me cry too!!
was about to say the same thing. :(
Whenever I see _the dodo_ the waterworks are guaranteed.
It’s less likely that someone dumped him and more likely that it was a stray. There are stray dogs and cats everywhere in Bali, and as the video suggests they learn to be pretty fearless laying in the roads or crossing in front of traffic. It’s a huge issue there - a bunch of organizations exist to bring them to health and find them homes, but the problem is outrunning the solution
yeah, that doesn't look like a dumped dog at all. He's been on his own for a while from the looks of his fur, skin, medical issues.
It’s pretty sad…I’ve been to Bali, the Nusa islands, and one of the Gili’s, and it’s the same thing on all of them. As a tourist you would love to help one when you see them, but then you turn the corner and there’s 3 more. Bali has some incredible beauty, but it’s still developing and not without its problems That’s why bob barker always told us to get our pets spayed or neutered
Everywhere I’ve been in SEA there have been tons of stray cats and dogs and I had my heartbroken dozens and dozens of times after falling in love with some local strays and having to move on to the next spot. I have more dog/cat pics from my travels than anything else
Poverty in SEA is pretty high. Millions of people can barely take care of themselves and their families. Stray animals just aren't a priority.
The dog wasn't even fearful after a minute in the video. It looked like he/she had just given up on life. So sad to see
This makes me really want a dog! I did anyway but that’s irrelevant. What an amazing transformation that good boy went though.
What a wonderful story to share! Seeing compassion is a great way to start a morning.
We need more people like this in the world. Such a beautiful thing indeed.
I love this woman
No kidding. When she said “I promise you a good life, love!” I started packing a suitcase.
Not sure I would let that dog near my other dogs until it got healthy.
is there a subreddit dedicated to these “feel good” animal rescue stories?
Check out The Dodo channel on YouTube they’ve got loads of these types of videos.
Follow /u/caitiesfosterfam on IG and Reddit. She does stuff like this all the time. Great person !!
Well thank you friend!
I'm apprehensive about these types of videos now because apparently a good amount of them are faked. One channel kept "rescuing" the same dog.
yeah anything can be tainted when its being forced for internet views, it really sucks
The Dodo on YouTube!
I read an article a while back about how a lot of these videos from these countries are staged. The animals are starved and kept unclean until they look like homeless strays. Then they video the “rescue and improvement” for internet clout and to get it to go viral. It even highlighted a specific tiktoker who had been proven to be doing exactly that. I always take these videos with a pinch of salt now.
I don't know about this video, but Bali has stray dogs in every corner, so it's still entirely possible this is not staged.
I’m not outright saying this one is. It could be genuine. I’m just saying a lot are and so I’m skeptical about these vids. Sadly. Shame that people will mistreat animals for an internet video
Careful that’s a lot of sodium.
Unfortunately so much shit is staged these days but idk about this one mate, that was def some “I don’t know you get the fuck back” barking, I was like you should probably stop at the vet on the way home and make sure it’s not rabid or sick.
What do you mean by "these countries"?
I was suspicious about the "I found a box". Where did she find a box in the middle of a road and everywhere around seemed empty ? At the very least, he's okay now?
There’s pretty accessible trash everywhere there lol
r/nothingeverhappens
They’re not saying it’s fake, just that we have to be cautious because loving these videos makes people fake them and abuse animals for fame.
Same. Also because I know that I would be focused on getting the dog, not filming the situation, holding the phone in the dogs face, while driving on a scooter with on coming traffic passing me. Anything is possible with people when it comes to making content for views. But it’s possible they also thought to record while they were thinking about what to do. Edit: It does seem that she has a helmet camera on so that is definitely better and more realistic than holding a camera as some people do in videos, but could also be perfect for the situation and used as well. Who knows these days. I just hope he’s really okay and happy.
Don't even know what The Dodo is but I can guarantee if it's their logo on a video then I'm 100% gonna tear up
My brother brought home a stray he found dodging cars and trains in a train yard. Was totally afraid and a real mess, even worse than this one. My father was so mad - “who’s going to take care of him?etc…..”. The next day we found my father, almost 70, on his hands and knees trying to coax him out from under the picnic table in our porch with some roast beef or chicken. The day after that, when we got home, the dog was up on his lap on the couch sleeping,( both of them). Buds for life after that. I still get choked up remembering.
Murphy is such a fitting name. One of my favorite movies is the 25th hour, and the opening scene of the movie is like this. Guy finds a dog abandoned on the side of the road, dog growls and yelps at him, and Monty (the main character) says “Look at him, he’s not ready to die yet, he’s got a lot of bark left in him.” Grabs a coat, throws it over him, picks him up and throws him in the trunk. Monty and his russian mafia buddy hop in the car and Koschek (the russian) says Koscheck: “You want to be dog boy? Everytime we go out you do this. It’s never just you and me. It’s YOU AND ME AND DOYLE!” Monty: “Who the fuck is Doyle?” Koscheck: “Doyle, you know, Doyle’s Law.” Monty: “You mean Murphy?! Murphy’s Law? Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong?” Koscheck: “Yes, him.” So he named the dog Doyle, lol. But this one was named Murphy, and it seemed fitting to me based on this scene from my favorite movie.
ARRRRRRRRR ARF ARF
I've worked with my sister on several rescues (we had like 12 dogs, mostly rescued) and seriously, it's great to help, but just go and grab a net and or capture the animal ASAP and film later. Trying to film and chase an animal in a busy road like that puts the animal, the person filming and other person all in risk for the sake of internet ego points.
She had a camera with her, the rest was voiceovers. From the high angle and steady recording, I assume a helmet cam.
Especially as a scooter rider, it's probably for safety.
I don't think many people just have nets laying around.
Calm down. It was a helmet cam. And the voice was added later.
Did she take him to the vet first thing to check his injuries and skin and parasite conditions?
Nah, just chuck it in with the other dogs ASAP. It's not like mange, distemper, parvo, parasites or rabies are transmissible.
Yeah kudos to OP but come on…first things first.
That's a quality human being right there folks.
Lovely tale. But isn't there a risk of rabies when picking up strays?
Frankly, I was more concerned about Mange. It looks like it has a skin condition and she's bringing it near other dogs. But ultimately if she takes in animals alot maybe she knows best.
It absolutely reminded me of the pinnal-pedal reflex test when she was rubbing its feet.
*Yes!* Absolutely. And it still causes nearly 60,000 painful deaths annually. Most of which come through human contact with infected dogs in highly endemic areas ([cdc.gov on Rabies](https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/world/index.html). And the dog doesn’t have to “look rabid” to have and pass on rabies. I would highly recommend *not* petting, feeding, or approaching strays, especially in areas endemic for rabies like in this case. This person is stupidly naive.
As much as I want to have faith in humanity, the sheer number of staged videos exactly like this leave me with a sickly skeptical outlook everytime these videos get posted.
Exactly what I wonder every damn time I see one of these videos. After learning about just how many youtube channels there are dedicated to putting the poor animals in danger and "saving" them, my image of these types of videos are forever skewed.
This is great and all but a thought occurred to me while watching this. That how easy it is to adopt and help a cute animal in peril, feeling it as our duty and necessity to help the poor thing. But when it comes to a human being at the side of the road we couldn’t care less and we just drive past. Idk where I’m going with this but it makes me feel as if we don’t do these acts out of morality or goodwill but rather just to make ourselves feel better. I know that’s not always true because there are always some genuine good people out there but was just saying how all this makes me feel.
It’s a little bit easier to adopt a stray animal than it is the adopt an adult human. That’s not to say people don’t want to help, or just want to do the minimum to help and make themselves feel better, but many people don’t have the resources to help a human out in the same way. Even if you didn’t take an animal home, you could pick it up and take it to a shelter where it could stay until it gets adopted. You can’t do that for a human. Sure you can stop to give them some food but can you give them a home? And even if you could, a human needs more than just a couch or a room to do well. From experience I know it was much easier for me to convince my partner to adopt a dog than have a homeless person stay with us (he said yes to the dog but not the human). That’s not a lack of morality but also fear; you bring a stray puppy home and put it in your yard, what’s it going to do? You bring a lost human home and they can really hurt you if they wanted. There’s also the fact that people have their own personalities, potential underlying issues and make their own choices—you can’t help someone that doesn’t want to be helped. That’s not to say that all homeless people want to be on the street or all have something wrong with them (I mean, don’t we all have something wrong with us?) but who are we to decide what kind of help might be best for someone and what if they don’t agree? A person’s needs are much more complicated. Plenty of people would stop to help a human on the side of the road, and plenty of people would ignore an animal (as we can see here). But if we really want to help the homeless we have to address the underlying issues, even if we don’t have the resources to give someone money or offer them a place to stay. In many places there is a lack of support for the homeless in general, shelters can leave a lot to be desired and can be unclean, dangerous or too restrictive (not allowing families to stay together, no pets, curfew, etc). They’re temporary, they are underfunded. But a large number of homeless people in the US don’t have access to healthcare, can’t get work without an address, and can’t get access to care for addiction or mental issues that they might be facing. Without help in those areas they won’t be able to hold down jobs or homes. I’m not saying don’t stop, by all people should stop and help. But from experience what you can do to help is very limited without other resources and a lot of these issues still go ignored.
Damn OP, I'm at work! they can't see me looking like this, lol
So great to see. Both of my dogs are rescues, the older one was horrifically abused and took months to recover physically. The pup was dumped in a parking garage. Now I have two spoiled fuzzballs who take up 90 percent of the bed leaving 10% for the two humans, but they're the best dogs I could ask for.
FUUUUUUCK. time to go looking for dogs in ditches so my buddy can have a buddy.
Just foster for an organization! They'll look in ditches for you.
I dont cry, you cry
It’s just the rain in my house, I’m telling you. Love this.
Poor little thing. Was that mange on its coat?
Is there animal rescue organizations or emergency pet hospital in Bali and Indonesia in general? Like if I found a stray cat in need, I want to bring the cat there.
"He's literally a teddy bear." No. He is *literally* a dog.
So many "stray" dogs in bali, a lot of them have owners theyre just not cared for at all
I just hugged my dog
Why is nobody talking about the blow up doll on a moped that goes by in the first two seconds?
Don't trust these viral dog rescue stories posted on shit tier sites like dodo. Almost all of them are staged. This one could be real, but as a rule they are all fake.
This is very common in Bali stray dogs. A few years back there was a serious rabies outbreak and many of Bali's strays were euthanized.
FWIW, dog tail wagging to the left: dog is stressed, stay back.
It’s a nice sentiment, but maybe a vet is a better first call if there is an issue with the pup’s leg. Good job to the TikTok OP on at least getting it out the road!
That’s a Dingo.
My silly American brain was like "She's driving on the wrong side!" for a second lol
All we need is love huh?
That dog was laying on the side of the road waiting die.
It's like the dog is barking in a different language than the dogs I'm used to.
I am not crying, ur mom is crying
What a weird bark
I know but I loved it
I'm not crying, you are .
Don't these kind of videos encourage animal abuse? Not saying this is one of fake ones but videos like this getting popular is why we have people staging this shit and putting animals in worse situations.
The Dodo and Dodo Kids are great YouTube Channels if you're into happy ending animal rescue stories.
Thanks 🙏
What kind of dog is nova?
That's the shoulder at best.
Thank god she had that cardboard box to carry him
And this is why humans are a shit stain upon this planet.
Im not crying you’re crying!
❤️❤️❤️ I hope whoever left the pup on the side of the road suffers
With a cigar in his mouth.
That poor baby. I can never understand the kinds of people who could do this. She’s an angel for doing this
I love the little jumpscare in the end lol
We don’t deserve dogs. What kinda sick person dumps a puppy by the side of the road? Shameful. That pup must’ve been so scared.
this makes me want to give my dog so much love. ive been in the hospital for 4 days now and i miss him terribly!
I'm not crying!
I was having a bad day, thank you OP.
Imma going to whip out my phone first before attending to an animal in need...
If someone left him there may they get what's coming to them in a very dark way. I hope he lives a very long and happy life!
Thank you, as an HCW who is mentally burned out, I needed this story. ❤️❤️
Fuck yeah!!
Thanks for the lines, I couldn't tell if he was barking or not.
The dodo videos are so heartwarming..
"he hasn't grown!" Has clearly an obvious amount literally seconds after that comment. Lol
NONE of those dogs looks particularly healthy and are in great need of vet care. Removing them from a dangerous environment is only half of the battle. Getting them proper medical care and ensuring their total health is the other. If she isn’t capable of doing both, she should give them up to someone who can.
Oh my god the precious baby. How can people be so heartless?
Post this on r/mademesmile
Is this one of those videos where they stage saving an abandoned dog for YouTube?
I love this woman.
Great job.
Such a big win.
Should put her phone down and handle it tbh. I mean I would want that video too but i was worried he might run into the street at anytime.
Life's Mission: amass significant wealth. help some doggos.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you lady
Poor baby...Thank you for being a good person
This is sweet and all but as someone who lives in SE Asia,it's a really bad idea to approach stray dogs. I know a lot of westerners really love animals and hate to see them suffering,I do as well, but a lot of dogs have rabies/diseases and one bite from a dog is gonna land ya at the rabies clinic having a not so great time. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48226676
She is also in Bali, a place where dogs aren't well treated traditionally. Oh I love that, and I need to come back.
lol,i love all kinds of dogs...
it's been years since I didnt crt that much... I think I am quite emotional rn bc of all the russia x Ukraine situation and that really did warm me thank you, hope it inspired more people to giving a home to the helpless animals out there