A 5-month-old puppy saved 67 people from a devastating landslide in India. This is Rocky. In the early hours of June 30th, he was sleeping on the ground floor of his home in Siyathi village as torrential rains poured down outside. Rocky woke up, began barking, and got the attention of his human, Lalit Kumar. "I was woken by my dogโs strange barking, as if he was trying to warn me. When I reached him, I saw a huge crack in the wall and water pouring in,โ Kumar said. Thanks to Rocky's early warning, Kumar was able to wake up the others in the village, encouraging 22 families to evacuate to safety. Soon after, nearly a dozen houses were flattened as a landslide struck the village. Rocky has only been with Kumar for three months, but he's already an extremely valued member of his community, having helped save the lives of all of his neighbors. 15/10
A tiny dog led rescuers to his owner who fell into a Swiss glacier. A man and his dog were hiking the Fee Glacier in Switzerland last week when suddenly he broke through a snow bridge and fell into a 26-foot crevasse. The man luckily had a walkie-talkie and was able to call for help, which a nearby person received and alerted rescue services. A rescue team arrived at Fee Glacier, but struggled to find the man's exact location. "The glacier surface was wide and the hole was barely visible," Air Zermatt said. But then one of the rescue specialists spotted movement: the tiny Papillon. The pup was standing right next to the collapsed hole, keeping watch over his human. The rescue team was able to retrieve the man, and the Papillon supervised the entire operation. The man and his dog were flown to a hospital, and the rescue team credit the small dog for making the rescue possible. 14/10 for all