I would not intend to do so, but I can see myself doing such without forethought. Funny how the owner and dog look alike.
Tragic but kind of sweet. The guy apparently had some struggles in life and this doesn’t really seem like the worst way to go.
They reached the Rainbow Bridge at the same time, together, and they crossed over it together.
I never had a pet I would die for and never will.
Well, I’m sure this guy never thought that he would die trying to save his pet. I feel sad about this and I wonder how long this guy would have lasted if he survived and his dog didn’t. Sad, sad, sad.
There are many cases of pets endangering (and giving) their own lives to save those of their owners, it isn't a stretch to me to imagine that could be reciprocated.
And nobody REALLY knows what they will do in a given situation.
We had a man in a town near me who just passed away last week Captain Thomas J. Hudner who was awarded the Medal of Honor in Korea for intentionally crashing his plane to save the life of a fellow pilot who had been shot down. (He could see him trapped in his burning plane, so he crashed to pull him out and protect him from Red Chinese troops)
I marveled to my wife that a man could do that...how COULD someone do that? I had a hard time wrapping my head around it.
My wife said "If it was Dave (my best friend) you would do that for him, wouldn't you?" and then it occurred to me...yes. I supposed I could. One never knows. That is the point, to me...one never knows. If I had an animal I loved, and it was struggling to swim in a rip tide, would I go after it? I probably would, but one never knows for sure.
A dog would die for you.
Were that we could be the people our dogs think we are!
I don’t intend on dying for my pets either; however, I do love both my dogs and would do what I could help them avoid harmful situations. Would do my best to get them off train tracks but not at the sacrifice of self. I’m pretty sure this guy would not have lasted long without his pup.
Most people think that way until it happens. My Jack Russell escaped the house once and I was chasing him around in the middle of the road. I never saw traffic. I’m in the country so traffic isn’t heavy but by the time I caught the little booger traffic was stopped both ways and people were just laughing while I chased him and finally caught him. Thank goodness most of the neighbors I have are good people and dog lovers. My focus was only on him, not on traffic.
Sounds like that dog had saved his life, but he was not able to save hers.
Pet owner, 61, is killed by a train after trying to save his beloved dog which had run onto the tracks
Sounds like a scene Stephen King could have written into “Pet Sematary”.
Same thing happened in my town to a guy who was cutting down a very large tree. His dog got in the way and he tried to save him the tree fell down on the guy and killed him
Sad story...really sad. However, wrong decision to get in front of a train in that case. My....
Plain common sense.
A couple of years ago some yahoo was visiting Yellowstone park. His dog jumped into a pool of 200 degree scalding water. The man raced to rescue his dog as onlookers yelled and cautioned him to forget it, a rescue would be too dangerous.
With the arrogance of youthful redneck bravado and machismo, the "rescuer" peeled of his shirt and chided "to hell I won't!!". The fool jumped in after the dog. Within a seconds he realized his mistake.
When rescuers got him out his eyelids had been seared off and his eyes poached pure white. The fool died the next day of third degree burns over 99% of his body.
Darwin is a cruel master. And the dog was never recovered.
This incident is documented in the wonderfuly macbre book "Death in Yellowstone : Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park" (isbn 1570980217).
There's the problem right there.
“I never had a pet I would die for and never will.”
Some folks love their furry friends just as much as their pets adore their masters.
This is a tragic story IMO.
Sad. RIP.