Guard praised for saving Athlone Park dog from drowning [VIDEO]
The response officer’s arrival in the nick of time was described as an act of God.
AN Amanzimtoti couple will forever be grateful after a security response officer rescued their furbaby from drowning in their family pool in March.
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It was a case of being in the right place at the right time for Blue Security armed response officer Bongumusa Ngubane, who responded to the property after an outdoor beam activated in the front garden. He was inspecting the back yard when he noticed an exhausted dog struggling in the water. “I looked at the swimming pool and saw the dog was battling to come out of the water. I took a stick and used it to pull the dog out of the water,” he said.
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The couple would have been none the wiser to the incident, except that their eight-month-old labrador Penny was limping when the owner got home from a meeting on the day of the near drowning. “We checked our CCTV camera recordings and saw she had been chasing a monkey when she fell into the swimming pool. She was in the pool for 27 minutes and would have drowned,” said Ashlen Rupnarain, who praised Bongumusa’s efforts which saved her just in time.
Bongumusa said he had tried to shake some of the water off the exhausted dog before she walked away. “It is not part of our training but if I didn’t help, the dog would have died because it was really battling in the water,” he said.
Rupnarain said Penny and the family’s boerboel Rocco were their ‘children’. He described the officer’s arrival in the nick of time to rescue her as an act of God. He said he planned to reward the officer for rescuing the dog whose limp had proved to be a symptom of her sheer exhaustion from her struggle to get out of the water.
Blue Security operations director Brian Jackson commended Bongumusa for his compassion and quick thinking during the rescue. “Our officers are dedicated to taking care of our residents’ properties and to making sure their homes are smarter, safer places for the whole family, including our furry family members who also work hard to protect the rest of the family, and sometimes need a helping hand themselves,” Jackson said.
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