A water-soaked puppy was swimming in the middle of the San Francisco Bay on Monday, and luckily, a group of wind surfers and a boater who happened to be passing by managed to save the her life, Gawker reports, though how she got there remains a mystery.
Berekely, Calif. resident Adam Cohen, 55, was commuting home from work in San Francisco with his wife when his day took an atypical turn. As he was heading east across the bay in his motorized raft which he uses to commute to his tech start-up, he spotted five windsurfers with their sails down, huddled together. Cohen, who thought there might be an injury, steered his boat over to help, when he realized the group was circling around a puppy.
"She was way out there," Cohen told the San Francisco Chronicle. "It looked like she was trying to swim to Angel Island."
One of the windsurfers had put the puppy on his board while he phoned the Coast Guard on a two-way radio and tried to get them to help. Cohen offered to take the puppy home with him and then the local shelter the next morning. Because the water was rough that day, it took him a bit to get his 22-foot Raider 665 raft into position to retrieve the dog.
"Then we reached down, picked her up and put her in the boat," Cohen said to the Chronicle. The puppy was shaking and seemed disoriented, so Cohen took her home and dried her off, wrapping her in a blanket to keep her warm.
"There were four of them and they all had their sails down," said Lisa Grodin, Cohen's wife, said to KTVU. "He stopped to see if anything wrong and they had this little puppy, this sweetheart of a puppy on one of their boards. They were trying to keep her out of the water and she was found paddling in the middle of the bay."
"She's not eating or drinking yet, but she's gotten up and taken a couple of walks in the yard," Cohen said at the time, and though he had originally planned on taking the puppy to the shelter, he also considered keeping her, as he and his wife wouldn't mind adding the pup to the family.
After visiting with the vet and confirming that she had no microchip, the vet technician said the dog probably belonged to someone because she was healthy, well-fed and wearing a nice dog collar. Cohen and Grodin told KTVU that they'd love to adopt the puppy, though they would prefer to try and find her owner.
Click here to see photos of the Labrador-Pitbull mix puppy that was rescued by wind surfers and a boater while swimming out in the middle of the Bay.
