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.told Inside Edition.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.
Bear got out of his collar when something spooked him on Saturday, ran 30 blocks and jumped in the Hudson River.blog after the six-month-old puppy went missing and said patrol boats were out looking for him."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.
The Edgewater Fire Department received a call about a dog barking near a pier. There, they found and rescued Bear. Bear wasn't discovered for about two days, when someone heard him barking near a pier in Edgewater, New Jersey, according to Inside Edition. Firefighters were called and rescued him."The dog was literally standing at the end of the pier...it looked like a dog statue," Edgewater firefighter Thomas Quinton told Inside Edition.
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