Watch a Hero Use a Plastic Bottle to Revive a Puppy That Almost Drowned

His name isn’t MacGyver, but a motorcyclist showed similar unconventional problem-solving skills to save the life of a puppy that almost drowned.

Hoang Minh, 21, was riding his motorcycle along a road in southern Vietnam when he spotted the unconscious puppy floating in a river. He immediately stopped and pulled the puppy, whose body was still warm, out of the water.

With his helmet camera turned on, Minh vigorously rubbed the puppy’s belly in an effort to revive him. He wiped the puppy’s face with a tissue and checked inside his mouth to make sure he hadn’t swallowed his tongue. So far, so good.

Minh then cut off the bottom of a plastic water bottle and lined it with a tissue. He placed it over the puppy’s head while breathing into the neck of the bottle.

His ingenious makeshift device worked. After just a few breaths, the puppy stirred and opened his eyes. He was soon up on his wobbly feet.

“After taking the puppy from the water, I was very confused and just did what I did without thinking,” Minh told Vietnamese media, according to The Mirror. “I didn’t actually know the proper paramedic procedure.”

Should you ever have to revive an unconscious dog and there’s no water bottle nearby, you can perform artificial respiration by holding the dog’s jaw tightly closed and breathing into his nose. For smaller dogs, you may be able to cover both their nose and mouth with your mouth and breathe into them. Here are the recommended step-by-step instructions to follow from petMD.com.

The puppy’s whereabouts are unknown, The Mirror reports. Here’s hoping Minh, the hero who saved his life, is now his official dog dad.

5 Reasons Why Jon Stewart Is So Doggone Awesome

This post was originally published in August 2015.

During his tenure as host of “The Daily Show” from January 1999 to August 2015, Jon Stewart skewered the news media and plenty of politicians — but he’s always had a soft spot for dogs, especially Pit Bulls.

Here are just five of the many reasons why Jon Stewart is a doggone awesome guy.

Bonus Fun Fact

Even the theme song of “The Daily Show” has a canine-related title: it’s “Dog on Fire,” performed by They Might Be Giants.

The instrumental tune was written by Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü. Based on the sound effects in the original version, its rather disturbing title might refer to a bowler who’s scoring a lot of strikes.

5. ‘The Daily Show’ office is dog friendly.

“On any given day, a half dozen dogs roam the halls, scavenge for treats and bark when people start clapping at ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,'” according to The Daily Show Dogs, a Facebook page dedicated to these lucky pets.

In September 2012, Brian Williams did about this perk for NBC’s “Rock Center.” (For the record, Williams was not lying about “The Daily Show” being dog friendly.)

4. Jon Stewart is a longtime Pit Bull advocate.

When Tia Torres, founder of the Villalobos Rescue Center featured on “Pit Bulls and Parolees,” was a guest in September 2014, she told Stewart, “I knew who Jon Stewart was before I knew what ‘The Daily Show’ was, because you’re such a Pit Bull advocate.”

3. He enlightened his audience about puppy mills.

The “Big Red Dogs” segment, in which Olivia Munn interviewed a supporter of puppy mills, aired after Missouri’s Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act passed in November 2010.

“They’re expecting breeders to sit there and pay for an exorbitance amount of care that is not needed, like adequate food, adequate water, adequate space,” says Anita Andrews, director of Alliance for Truth, an organization that opposed the law.

The segment gets even funnier/scarier after that, with appearances by “Dog Whisperer” Cesar Millan and spcaLA President Madeline Bernstein.

2. He ripped Michael Vick a new one.

When it was discovered in 2007 that the NFL’s Michael Vick ran a dog-fighting operation and had killed several dogs himself, like most of us, Stewart was livid.

“I’d like to cover him in liver and let the dogs see if he’s as fast and elusive as they say he is,” Stewart said, fuming, as the studio audience cheered.

“My guess is no.”

1. He’s the dog dad of rescued Pit Bulls, including three-legged Little Dipper.

Stewart doesn’t just advocate on behalf of Pit Bulls — he provides them with a loving forever home. Stewart, his wife Tracey (who’s a former veterinary technician) and their family have three: Monkey, Shamsky (named after baseball legend Art Shamsky) and three-legged Little Dipper.

In a series of ridiculously sweet photos posted on Buzzfeed in May 2013, Stewart could be seen walking Little Dipper with a bright green leash along a New York City street.

In the photo below, as Stewart pats the lucky pup on the head, Little Dipper appears to be having his very own “Moment of Zen.”

Photos via Pinterest; Buzzfeed

Hero Pomeranian Stays by Blind Chihuahua’s Side During House Fire

When Lily Ifield of Hertfordshire, England, looked out her bedroom window in the middle of the night earlier this month, she thought the thick smoke she saw was fog.

But when she went downstairs, she realized the smoke was coming from inside her house.

“I thought my home was going to explode. There was just this big billowing cloud of black smoke,” she Daily Express, describing a house fire earlier this month. “All I thought was, ‘Oh my God,’ and ran out. I couldn’t really see as there was smoke everywhere.”

Ifield, 73, and Sandy, her 10-year-old Pomeranian, managed to escape outside, but Sandy noticed somebody was missing.

It was Tina, a blind, 13-year-old Chihuahua who is Sandy’s best friend.

To Ifield’s horror, Sandy ran back into the burning house. “The fireman couldn’t believe Sandy went in to the smoke-filled house to look for the little one,” Ifield told the Daily Express. “He said when he came in, they were both sitting side by side in the kitchen, and Sandy was looking after her.”

Firefighters from the Stortford Fire and Rescue Service were able to save the two dogs.

“We got them out before there was a chance for them to be affected by smoke inhalation,” one of their rescuers, Pat Steadman, told the Daily Express. “The 13-year-old one was the smallest chihuahua you’ve ever seen. They were only going to come out together.”

Ifield’s parrot, Rio, also survived the blaze by flying out of the house. The fire was believed to be caused by an electrical issue in the kitchen. Ifield and her pets are temporarily staying in a hotel while repairs are made to their home.

“The firefighters did a brilliant job to make sure everyone was okay,” Ifield told the Hertfordshire Mercury. “They are so kind — I just want to thank them so much.”

Tina and her hero Sandy were already BFFs before the fire. But now? “They are even closer, and they just cuddle up to each other,” Ifield told the Daily Express.

Photo (of a random Pomeranian who isn’t Sandy): OpenRoadPR

Baaa-d Job? Border Collie Herder-in-Training Leads Sheep into House

Rocky, a seven-month-old Border Collie puppy, is just getting his paws wet at the art of herding sheep.

So perhaps his owner, Rosalyn Edwards of Devon, England, shouldn’t have been too surprised at what she found inside her home late last month.

“I was in the kitchen and heard a noise,” Edwards told The Telegraph. “I turned around and the sheep were just standing there. There were about nine of them.”

The sight of all those sheep inside her house was pretty hilarious, but the mess they made? Not so much. “There was quite a lot of wee, poo and mud everywhere,” Edwards said. “It took me a little while to clean it all up.”

How did the sheep end up inside her house? Edwards, her husband and her son had gone out into a field, inadvertently leaving a gate open behind them. Being a super smart Border Collie, young Rocky quickly took advantage of the situation and led the sheep into the house through a back door.

Thank goodness for smart phones — Edwards was able to record the video below of the sheep inside her house, which has been viewed more than 92,000 times on Facebook.

Edwards put her children in another room, and she and her husband were able to successfully shoo the sheep out the front door.

As for Rocky, he was very pleased with himself, Edwards said. After all, how many herding dogs have the skills to lead sheep inside houses?

“He brought a whole new meaning to ‘bringing the sheep home,’” she told The Telegraph.

Photo via Rosalyn Edwards/Facebook

Texas Church Shooter Devin Kelley Previously Charged with Beating His Puppy

Like many mass murderers, Devin Kelley, who killed 26 innocent churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Texas, yesterday, was an animal abuser.

It’s a known fact — and a great argument for tougher animal cruelty laws — that there’s an established link between violence against humans and cruelty to animals. Many serial killers, including Robert Durst, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, started out by harming dogs and cats. Of the seven school shootings in the U.S. between 1997 and 2001, all the shooters had previously committed acts of animal cruelty, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

So it should probably come as no surprise that in 2014, Kelley was arrested in Colorado Springs for animal cruelty. Three neighbors in the trailer park where he lived at the time saw him jump on his Husky puppy and then punch the defenseless dog in the head and neck several times, Denver7 reports. The witnesses said the puppy was yelping and crying.

“She stated she witnessed four to five punches and then the male suspect grabbed the dog by the neck and drug him away,” according to the police report from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.

When deputies arrived at Kelley’s camper, he refused to come out or show them his puppy. When he finally did, one of the deputies said the puppy appeared to be underweight. (A former neighbor at the trailer park told the New York Times yesterday the puppy was a Pit Bull, and Kelley left it “tied up in the sun all day outside of his RV.”)

Kelley told the deputies he chased his puppy when it wouldn’t obey his command to stay. He claimed he jumped on top of the puppy because it was acting aggressively toward another dog. He said he didn’t beat or drag the puppy.

The puppy was taken to an animal hospital for veterinary care. Kelley was charged with animal cruelty and neglect, for which he received a pathetic sentence of 18 months of unsupervised probation. When he completed the probation period, the case was dismissed, a Colorado court spokesperson told Denver7.

Two years prior to that incident, Kelley, who served in the Logistics Readiness division of the U.S. Air Force, was court-martialed for two counts of assault on his wife and 11-month-old stepson — whose skull he said he had intentionally fractured. He was sentenced to 12 months of confinement and a rank reduction.

Kelley’s wife divorced him later that year. Her grandmother, Lula White — whom Kelley had reportedly threatened before — was a member of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. She was among the 26 people Kelley killed.

Despite his violent criminal past, Kelley was still able to purchase automatic weapons and blow away more than two dozen people, ranging in age from 18 months to 77 years. “This isn’t a guns situation,” Donald Trump said today. “This is a mental health problem at the highest level.”

But this is indeed a guns situation — and the fact that it’s so easy for people with criminal backgrounds and mental health problems at the highest level to obtain them. Did Trump forget that in February he revoked a law that blocked people with severe mental issues from purchasing guns?

Instead of offering their thoughts and prayers, Trump and members of Congress could actually take action to save lives by banning assault rifles and by once again blocking anyone with a “mental health problem at the highest level” from purchasing guns.

Photo via CBS News/YouTube

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