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I had a black lab retriever growing up. When she was 3 y.o. I was body surfing in the ocean and was pulled out by a rip current. I figured I could swim in but after 20 mins I was hundreds of feet offshore and exhausted. I was waving and yelling but no one noticed and I was disappearing behind the waves often. I figured 'that was it' for me. But then I noticed my dog had stopped chasing frisbees on the beach and was eyeing me intently from the shoreline. I was too tired to even wave to her. After about 10 seconds of staring at me she bounded into the water and swam directly out to me. She made a U-turn in front of me and I grabbed her tail. I was so tired I had to rest my head under water before even being able to lift it up for a breath. She chugged and huffed, pulling me like some caninne tugboat, all the way in to shallow water until I could sit down and rest. After a bit I was able to get up and walked in.

We were buds after that. She'd never done anything like that before and never did for the rest of her days. Best dog I ever had.

What a great story. The one thing I love the most about FR is when an animal story gets posted and reading everyone’s comments about their pets or their expierinces with animals. The best dog I ever had was names Snoopy. Half beagle and half Pitbull. He would lift the gate latch evry morning at 11am when he knew that I was in PE Class and I “had” to take him home. Sometimes I would catch him running around a store when I went shopping. I knew he got in because I would hear the people yelling. Jeez I miss that dog.

When I was growing up my dad had a golden retriever named Barney. I’m too young to remember but apparently when I was two I wondered off from our house up in the hills. When my parents found me guess who had stayed by my side the entire time. My family has had a golden from that day forward.