A little stray dog stuck in a canal in a rural part of California was very frightened when Danny from A Safefurr Place Animal Rescue tried to rescue her.
Although getting her out of the canal was going to be hard, Danny quickly realized that getting her to trust him would be even harder. When he arrived at the scene, he noticed the dog had a limp due to painful splinters stuck in her paw.
Initially, he tried to approach her to offer her some help. However, the dog ran and hid in a nearby bush. Danny couldn’t risk chasing her because he feared she might slip through the fencing and end up on the road beside the canal. After many more failed attempts, he called his friend, Sheila, to assist with the rescue.
Narrating the rescue mission on YouTube, Danny wrote: “At one point, to get away from us, she jumped into the canal and swam to the other side! It freaked us out! We were worried the current would take her away, or that she wouldn’t be able to climb back out. Thank goodness we were wrong!”
Thankfully, Danny and his friend succeeded in rescuing the dog. Danny said they named her Ariel because “she’s a little mermaid.”
The Kern Project in San Francisco has taken Ariel into their custody and will give her all the help and care she needs.
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