Not all heroes wear capes (and not all of them can feel their legs after a 33º dip, either).
Look at this:
This happened a few weeks back, but boy does it just make my heart happy.
Spotting a dog struggling to stay afloat in a icy Vermont river, Chris MacRitchie never hesitated.
He jumped into the frigid waters and waded over to the dog, gently pulling it ashore, where his wife draped it with a sweatshirt. The dramatic rescue on Jan. 10 in Berlin was caught on video by his son and was shared widely on social media.
For real: The dude just went right in!
You watch someone plunge into just-above-freezing water like that ...
... and you can just feel how freezingly painful that must have been.
And you know that dog couldn't have lasted much longer in that water. He was obviously in shock when he got out:
The pup's owner "had been looking since Jan. 9 for her dog named Arizona, a 7-year-old mutt that had originally been rescued from the side of the road in South Carolina." MacRitchie called her from the number on the tag and she picked the dog up right away.
Thankfully all ended well: By last week the dog was "mostly recovered."
God bless this man who just jumped right into the icy-cold water to save a pup.
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