Here’s the luckiest pooch in New York.
Some hero cops jumped into the frigid Hudson River today and saved a 4-year-old German Shepherd that had fallen off its owner’s boat.
Little Chloe was stuck under a dock in the southern part of the Chelsea Piers Marina, just south of the driving range, when scuba divers from the NYPD’s P.O. Anthony Sanchez police boat made the rescue.
“She was stuck pretty good,” police on scene said.
“They had a diver ready to go and he jumped in and got her un-wedged. I’m out here all alone on the pier…. I was about to go in myself,” said the dog’s owner Mark Stoss, 42. “The dock was floating up and down and I thought it was going to crush her.”
The dog lives with Stoss, Stoss’ fiancée Isabel Anaya, 31, and another German Shepherd on a large, three-bedroom catamaran that has been docked at Chelsea Piers for about eight months.
The dog fell from the craft at about 10:30 a.m. and swam around in the water for about 30 minutes before Stoss – who had been away at a court appearance where he successfully fought a dog-walking ticket – spotted her splashing.
“[I thought] that sounds like my dog,” he said. “I looked everywhere and I couldn’t see her, finally I looked in the water and she was stuck under the dock. I started screaming ‘Call 911! Call 911!’”
The scuba cops lifted the dog onto a zodiac inflatable boat. The dog was then given a warm shower and looked no worse for wear.
“I don’t know how the hell she fell in, but she must have swam around the boat before heading towards the dock [ where dockmaster shed is ] because that’s where the people are. She was swimming around, terrified, then ended up under the dock.”
Chloe had previously fallen in the water in the summer, but usually it knows its way around the boat like an old salt.
“The dogs are used to being outside, it is where they spend the majority of their time,” Stoss said. “They know their way around the boat, they are used to it. I guess with the weather and the snow she just slipped.”