A young fox trapped by rising floodwaters near the village of Welwyn, Saskatchewan, has been reunited with its family after two men took a risky swim to rescue the critter, according to CBC News.
Since this spring, a family of foxes had been hanging out on a rock pile on the property of Colin Graham, so when eight inches of rain caused some flash flooding on Sunday, Graham’s sister wondered how the foxes were surviving the flood.
“So we drove out there and there was just one rock sticking out of the top of the water,” Graham told CBC News on Tuesday.
On top of that rock sat one young fox trapped by water that was eight-feet deep.
After Jordan Olson, Graham’s friend, suggested they swim out and get the fox, the two did just that, swimming approximately 245 feet out to the rock pile and the fox.
“When I first got there, he had a little bit of energy and he bailed off the rock and into the water and tried to swim away,” Graham told CBC News. “But I was able to catch up to him.”
The two men put the fox in the back of his truck, drove home, and dried and warmed the thankful critter.
“Then we were driving later and we saw the mother out there so we took him back,” Graham said. “They’re reunited. I saw them running around the other day.”
Another friend, Derek Roeher, took photos of the rescue and tweeted them.
Fortunately, the rescue went off without a hitch.
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