North Carolina Dog Rescues Stranded Ducklings
A dog in North Carolina is being hailed as a hero after rescuing some helpless baby ducks from a drainage pipe. According to Fox 46, Jorge Serrano and his nine-year-old flat coat retriever, Charlie, were walking at Robbins Park in Cornelius when other park visitors had noticed that several ducklings had fallen into a drainage hole in the middle of a pond. One witness said the mother duck was swimming around the drain.
Some of the people at the park considered calling the fire department to save the ducklings, but Serrano stepped in, thinking Charlie might be up for the job. “He’ll do anything you ask him to do. He’ll deliver newspapers when he walks by somebody’s house. Or he’ll carry flowers to somebody if you ask him to do it,” says Serrano. “I just thought, Charlie’s a pretty good guy. Maybe he could go through the pipe and get them.” He is, after all, a retriever.
So Serrano sent Charlie down the storm drain with instructions to bring the ducklings out. Charlie did as he was asked, bringing the baby ducks out one by one. Bystanders were understandably impressed with Charlie, calling the dog a hero. “It makes me really proud,” says Serrano. “I’d like to take credit for training him but really, he’s just a smart guy that wants to please. And he’d do it for anybody.”
