Dog Plummets 14 Stories From High-Rise ... Into Man's Arms
Ted Nelson saved bichon frise's life after it got caught on apartment ledge
Posted Sep 2, 2015 3:58 PM CDT
Screenshot from KGW news report shows Mordy.
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(Newser)
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Call
it luck, coincidence, or a lifesaving sixth sense. An Oregon man
happened to glance out his apartment window Saturday morning, saw a dog
precariously perched on a ledge 14 stories high in a building across the
way, and took action. "There was a dog that had ended up climbing
through the railing on its balcony and it was perched on this little
ledge," Ted Nelson tells KGW. "You could tell it was distressed. I said I might have to try and catch this dog."
That
dog was a 5-year-old bichon frise named Mordy, and fall it did—but not
before Nelson had run across the street, right underneath Mordy's
balcony. "I just looked up at it and it was looking at me and it landed
right in my chest," he tells the station. "Caught it for a minute, [it]
kind of fell, it did hit the ground. It let out a yelp but it was a huge
relief to hear it." A vet says Mordy just has a couple of bruises and
will be fine, and his owner tells KGW that while the incident
traumatized his family, they're glad Nelson was there to save the day.
(Another dog was reunited with its owners—nine years after it disappeared.)
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