I was thinking about the poor little pet pig that got loose and the neighbors turned him into a luau.
Posted on 04/17/2019 7:21:20 AM PDT by NRx
Vitisak Payalaw and his crew were working on an oil rig 135 miles off the southern coast of Thailand on Friday when they spotted something unexpectedly bobbing in the gentle waves.
It was a dog.
The animal was fighting his way through the moving water, heading for the oil rig. As he approached the structure, Payalaw, an offshore planner for Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, held out a pole after the animal had splashed his way to the platform below the rig’s deck. As a video Payalaw posted to his Facebook account shows, the pup was soaked, shivering and too exhausted to whimper or bark.
“His eyes were so sad. He just kept looking up just like he wanted to say, ‘Please help me,’” Payalaw told CNN. “At that moment, whoever saw this, they would just have to help...”
...Four members of the crew, including Payalaw, spent 15 minutes devising a way to pull the animal up to the rig, eventually slinging a looped rope around the dog’s neck and hoisting it to the deck. The pictures from the offshore planner’s Facebook account show the animal looking sapped after being taken aboard the rig.
According to NPR, the rig workers gave the dog water and pieces of meat. Then, they settled on a name: “Boonrod,” meaning “he has done good karma and that helps him to survive.”
“He looked extremely exhausted and ran out of energy. He didn’t move much,” Payalaw said to CNN. “He was shaking and he couldn’t stand, he had to sit all the time.”
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I was thinking about the poor little pet pig that got loose and the neighbors turned him into a luau.
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Healthy fats!
I have seen pictures in another article (sorry, don’t have the link) — after they gave him food and water and washed off all the saltwater, he looked much more comfortable.
Hope someone nice adopts him.
Agreed. It is a good news story, and that is one lucky dog but it is click bate.
JoMa
The bucket is black, so the water appears to be black as well.
But to be honest, at first I was thinking the same thing.
So do you have a WaPo subscription or did you pay the $1?
I wouldn’t eat that.
No scales...................
I read the article in a private browsing window.
But would you read it in a box? With a fox?
https://www.soidog.org/ Is a wonderful group.
Eat THAT?! It looks like a booger!
glad he’s ok but i hope the crew does not make him into kebabs.
“As an old diesel submarine sailor, I had many occasions when surfacing , out in the middle of the ocean, that birds would immediately crash land onto our decks, they were lost and exhausted.”
In 2008 I went on a Caribbean cruise and after we left Aruba one night some small birds landed on the ship. The crew went around tossing them overboard so my group went out and gathered as many as we could and took them back to our room for the night. We gave them water but had no idea what to feed them.
We let them go in the morning and the one thing that always amazed me was how trusting they were in the morning. As if they understood we were helping them.
"His eyes were so sad": Oil rig crew rescues a dog swimming 135 miles off Thailand">
Considering that part of the world, he is lucky he did not become “catch of the day”
Why do I also get the feeling these men would be protective and loving fathers...
Great picture. Thanks civ.
:^)
Canine Olympic Champion.
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