The sweetened doggo obviously appreciate their savior .
An Alabama doggo is good from a flood lamp , and a local protection conductor is a hero for make it so .
On March 18 , a monolithic tempest rolled through the town of Dothan , Ala. , quick consuming local creeks and putting a number of yard and low - lying areas under pelvic girdle - deep water . Once the pelting stopped , someone called the Dothan Police Department to report a dog who was tied up and struggling to keep their head above water , police wrote in aFacebook Emily Post .
Photo: Courtesy of Dothan Police Department
Dothan Animal Shelter Director Bill Banks respond to the call and , unable to get in liaison with the domestic dog ’s owner , waded into the murky water not knowing what might be waylay under the open or how favorable the disturbed dog would be to stranger .
" Once I receive down there , it was n’t but a hour or two before I had her destitute , " cant tells Daily Paws . " The water system was waistline inscrutable , dresser deep in some place .
" I got totally destruct by fire ants , " he say . " They were all over the aerofoil of the piss . They were all over my shirt , my arms . The dog was covered in them . "
Faced with an animal in need , bank heroically enroll the fenced inclosure and freed the struggling doggie , who give thanks him with a wet , overemotional clinch that was captured in a photo .
In the post , the Dothan Police Department was effusive in their praise for the director .
" Director Banks ' altruism and care for animals reflect greatly on himself , the Dothan Animal Shelter , and the city of Dothan , " the post read .
For his part , Banks is immediate to point out that the situation was a fluke and the pup ’s proprietor is n’t to fault .
" In all the years I ’ve been here , that creek has never come up up that far before , " he says . " I got ahold of the possessor at the sentence , but he was in the next state , take in care of some business and was maneuver back when I talked to him . I conceive he start out home about a half an 60 minutes after I pulled [ the dog ] out . "
money box says he tied the dog up closer to the home and that the grateful proprietor has already relocate the firedog house and natural enclosure even further up the property , to forbid a similar situation from ever bump again .
