Not many have lived to tell the tale of falling in­to the Wa­ter­front’s 100-foot-deep wa­ter. How­ev­er, a small but mighty mutt called Lu­na be­came an ex­cep­tion. 

A few weeks ago, Lu­na was in the area with her own­er Carisse Thong and some of her friends who stopped to take in the scenic view, when she slipped out of their sight. They searched all over un­til they found her in a place they didn’t ex­pect. 

“I turned my back for like two sec­onds be­cause one of my friends called to ask me some­thing. Then, I turned (back) and I didn’t see Lu­na.  Be­hind me is wa­ter. So I’m think­ing, no way she went in the wa­ter,” said Thong. 

That’s when a pass­er-by alert­ed her to the pooch in the sea who was try­ing her best dog­gie pad­dle yet fight­ing to stay afloat.  A kind stranger with a boat of­fered to as­sist them, and helped low­er Thong close enough in the wa­ter to grab Lu­na out. 

“I low­ered my­self in­to the wa­ter like knee deep, and I end­ed up stretch­ing my leg out, and she held on to my low­er leg. I was just pulling her up, and at some point, I just couldn’t pull her up any­more, be­cause I felt like the back of her would have fall­en back in­to the wa­ter. So, this guy with like a met­al rod, like with a hook to the end of it took the low­er half of her body and pulled her up, and both of us were just work­ing in co­or­di­na­tion to pull her up, then they pulled me up,” she ex­plained. 

Thong said back on land, she was an emo­tion­al wreck at the thought of what had just oc­curred, but she said Lu­na be­came her en­er­getic self once more.

“She was so spright­ly like noth­ing hap­pened,” the dog lover said.

Lu­na’s fam­i­ly was hap­py for the pup to be safe and sound, es­pe­cial­ly since they were deal­ing with the fresh wound of los­ing an­oth­er dog the week be­fore. 

Thong said she and Lu­na do not plan on go­ing near the sea any­time soon, and she ad­vised oth­ers to nev­er un­der­es­ti­mate their pets. 

Life­guard Al­lis­ter Liv­ingston shared sim­i­lar sen­ti­ments. He said it was his first time hear­ing of such an in­ci­dent hap­pen­ing in T&T. 

“Dogs are very good swim­mers, but they can get tired and drown as well. So, make sure your dogs are se­cure on a leash. I can on­ly an­tic­i­pate that dog was prob­a­bly run­ning on that smooth sur­face and fell in,” he said. 

He added, “When peo­ple go to jet­ties or wa­ter­fronts, do not go or stand near the edges or close to the wa­ter where they can fall in. If some­times you go to fish, make sure you have a res­cue line or a res­cue aid, so in the event of some­body falling in­to the wa­ter, they can throw it. Do not let kids (or dogs) run, walk or stand near these edges.”