A service dog from New York City got loose and took a long solo journey – swimming across the Hudson River and ending up in New Jersey. Bear the service dog got out of his collar when something spooked him on Saturday. He ran 30 blocks and jumped in the river that sits between New York and northern New Jersey.
“The story just seems so insane to me that I cannot believe it’s true,” Bear’s owner, Ellen Wolpin, told Inside Edition. Wolpin got Bear just last week as a service dog for her son, who has seizures. The Hudson River is about a mile wide, and while that swim may be difficult for humans, Bear is a mix of a Bernese mountain dog and Leonberger and a natural swimmer, according to Inside Edition.
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Wolpin mentioned that patrol boats were searching for the missing six-month-old puppy when he gave an interview to a local blog on the Upper West Side after the dog went missing. “I’m hoping for the best but that may be that he got to N.J. and someone grabbed him and he’s with a good home now,” she said – which seems a bit prescient, considering the dog did end up in New Jersey. “I’m hoping for the best but that may be that he got to N.J. and someone grabbed him and he’s with a good home now,” she said.
According to Inside Edition, Bear wasn’t found for around two days after his discovery until someone heard him barking close to a dock in Edgewater, New Jersey. He was rescued by firefighting personnel when they were called. Inside Edition spoke with a firefighter from Edgewater named Thomas Quinton who said that the dog was “literally standing at the end of the pier” and that it “looked like a dog statue.” “It seemed like it was ready to go, and he was weary of being below there,” she said. “He was ready to get out.”
They were able to locate Bear’s owners by using the microchip in the dog. Photos of a rescue operation that took place early on Tuesday morning were uploaded to Facebook by the fire department. CBS News has made inquiries in an effort to obtain additional information and is presently awaiting a response.
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