Hero Dog Saves Friend From Icy Waters (VIDEO)

A dog’s loyalty isn’t just to its human parents. In Andalusia, Illinois, a black lab was found frantically barking. His friend, another lab, had fallen in through the ice at a sewage treatment plant and was unable to get out. This dog never left his friend’s side, other than to get help from the nearby people.

“I had just sat down for lunch when one of our guys, Joe Dungan, came back to the building and said he heard dogs barking and he looked around and one was in the water,” Matt Stark, one of the employees at the treatment plant, told ABC News.

Thankfully, Dungan had already called 911, and the employees came together to rescue the drowning dog.

“The one black dog was running around and tried to get my attention,” said Stark. “I think he was trying to tell me he was saving his friend. I looked over in this hole and the other dog was in the water trying to get out.”

The dog in the water, later identified as Buck, was on his last legs. Witnesses say he was howling in pain and was quickly running out of energy. The treatment plant workers, along with emergency responders, got to work and were able to successfully pull the lab to safety. He was quickly taken into one of the worker’s trucks and wrapped in a wool blanket to warm up.

Animal control took the dog to the vet, and he was found to be perfectly stable. His guardians were later found, and the lab was returned to them. It turns out that the two labs had been on a hunting trip with their parents when they snuck off.

If it wasn’t for this loyalty between friends, Buck would not have survived this trauma. It turns out that dogs aren’t only man’s best friend, but each other’s best friend as well!