Animal lovers have been shocked by a daring rescue of a dog who had fallen into sea and ended up on a cliff edge.
Rescuers from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) were quick to the scene in Moelfre, Wales, after the dog’s owner pleaded for help as her pet, Ember, had fallen while chasing a ball. Her owner could hear the spaniel barking and knew she was alive, but wasn’t able to see her—as she was trapped on a ledge between a cliff and the sea, and so the crew got straight to work to reunite Ember with her human.
Moelfre’s RNLI Coxswain, Vince Jones, told Newsweek: “As we entered the water near the cliff, we could hear the dog yapping away.
“Where the spaniel was trapped, it would have been inaccessible from the cliff top, so, kitted in our drysuits and life jackets, we entered the water and made our way onto the ledge.
“After a few moments of talking to Ember, she seemed to calm down and we were able to get a lead on,” Jones said.
Ember the spaniel sits on the cliff ledge, and, right, in the water with her rescuers.
RNLI
In a video of the daring rescue, RNLI crew members arrive to the cliff edge by the water, and climb up to the ledge, where a soaked, cold and nervous Ember is trapped.
She appears too scared to approach the men as she rushes back and forth, dangerously close to the edge, and barks constantly at the strangers.
But, eventually, one rescuer grabs her and holds her still, fixing a leash to her harness, and constantly reassures her that she’s a “good girl” as he prepares to lower her to a man waiting in the water below.
At the count of three, the first rescuer takes Ember in his arms and jumps with the dog to the water below, where the second man is waiting—again, reassuring Ember that she is a good girl.
With all three of them now in the water, the video then switches to show Ember, now “safe on dry land,” and rushing through the grass on her lead, in anticipation of being reunited with her owner.
The RNLI shared the clip to its TikTok account @RNLI, and users loved it, watching the video close to 90,000 times. One commenter wrote: “Ember was, in fact, not a good girl.”
“Of course it’s a spaniel,” another posted, while one praised the rescuers: “It amazes me you do this voluntarily. Open water terrifies me, well done to you all.”
Ember is trapped and attached to a lead, and, right, prepares to enter the water.
RNLI
And as one moved user commented: “Thank you each and every single one of you. [You] never get enough recognition for your hard work. This poor dog looks so terrified, soon as you talked to her calmly she trusted you, amazing.
“Well done, I’d be very grateful if she was my dog. We all owe you a pat on that back.”
Jones said it was “great to … reunite the spaniel with her owner,” adding that the owner “did the right thing by coming to the lifeboat station and alerting us.”
Jones warned owners to always keep dogs on a lead “when near the edge of cliffs or piers,” and to “never go in after your pet.” Instead, owners should call emergency services and ask for the coastguard.
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