RAGING FLOODS COULDN’T keep them away from their baby foxes. Farm owner Colin Graham lives near Welwyn village in Saskatchewan, Canada and has been watching the family of foxes since spring.
Hit with an extreme downpour last week, the rain left much of the area flooded under 6.5 feet of water. Graham and friend Jordan Olsen noticed a stranded kitten-sized fox on a rock in the floods, telling CBC that:
My sister wondered what happened to the foxes, so we drove out there and there was just one rock sticking out of the top of the water.
Of course, the obvious thing for the lads to do next was to go to its aid, and their friend Derek Roeher documented the entire thing.
Earlier in the week, local weather man J.C. Garden tweeted the warning, and people began tweeting back their photos of the floods to him.
A few days later, Roeher tweeted him these photos depicting the save.
J.C. retweeted the photos the guys’ heroic effort began going viral.
Weather personality Sean Schofer even posted the photos to his Facebook account, drawing both negative and positive reaction to the save.
Some commended the lads on their feat
Awesome! And for the guy way above with the negative comment “waste of f**kin’ time”, maybe you’ll be drowning someday and and somebody will look at you and say, waste of f**kin’ time. Every life matters. Big or small.
It’s amazing how some people think human lives are worth more than an animals. For shame. No one life is more important than another. You should get a brain. These guys are heros and I’m so proud of them and I don’t even know who they are!
While others dismissed the stunt as silly and dangerous
I don’t want to be negative but I’m sure these people’s wives, children, parents, aunts, uncles etc….would be deeply saddened if something happened to them because they were trying to save a fox…seriously?! commonsense should play a role here… I love animals just as much as the next person, but cannot imagine throwing my life in danger and leaving my children, without a mother, to save an animal
I’d never risk my life for a fox!! Dumbasses
Either way, the risk paid off, and the fox is happily reunited with its family.
“We put it in the back of my truck and our house is right close there so we took it home, dried it off, and got it warmed up,” Graham said. “Then we were driving later and we saw the mother out there so we took him back.”
Saskatchewan was severely flooded last week after heavy rainfall caused flash flooding, with roads closed and a state of emergency declared in many regions.
