there are people who love their pets, many have cats but I am not a fan of cats in general…

just show me a cat who would do this…

The 12-year-old Omaha boy on Saturday afternoon took a step off the riverbank into the Platte River, yards from the family’s cabin near North Bend, Neb.

The Platte, swollen by recent rains, was deeper and faster-moving than Tony was expecting. As soon as he hit the water, he was in literally over his head.

Tony’s mother, Diane Bailey, estimated that the river was 7 to 8 feet deep at that point.

“Usually, when it’s dry, it’s up to your knees — or waist, at the highest,” where Tony walked in, Bailey said Monday. “He’s done it a thousand other times.”

Tony, who will be a seventh-grader at McMillan Magnet Center in the fall, tried to swim, but the current was too strong.

“I thought I was going to die because it was so deep,” he said.

Bailey, her two other children, and her brother and sister all were sitting at a picnic table about 20 feet from the water. But as Tony yelled for help, no one heard his cries — except Jake, the family’s 4-year-old black Labrador retriever.

The dog ran to the riverbank, jumped in and swam toward Tony.

The rest of the family ran to the riverbank, Bailey said, and watched as the dog, who weighs about 85 pounds, swam downstream of Tony, who weighs about 150 pounds, then paddled back upstream toward him. Tony then put his arms around the dog’s neck, and Jake pulled him toward shore.

give me a dog any day…

Omaha World-Herald