Jessica was hiking in a remote part of New Zealand with her dog, Molly, when she slipped and fell 180 feet down a waterfall. Jessica survived and was rescued - but Molly had disappeared.

A local helicopter company heard what happened and organized a volunteer search. A week after Molly went missing, the team flew back to the waterfall to start looking.

And there she was.

Molly was sitting on rocks beneath the very waterfall where Jessica had fallen. Despite spending a week on her own, rescuers said she was in perfect condition.

They lured Molly over with a treat, carried her to the helicopter and brought her to safety.

After an unimaginably difficult week, Jessica and Molly were finally both back home.

Source: https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/hiker-survives-180-foot-fall-down-a-waterfall-a-week-later-her-dog-is-waiting-there

We don't deserve dogs.

Every now and then I wonder if I were to somehow actually have a conversation with family pet, I always wanted to ask if they missed their birth family.

Obviously, humans don't mind taking them away from them to "raise them" but it's kind of sad when you think about it. We really don't deserve pets. Another thing that humanity as enshitified.

It’s nice to see good things happening in this world sometimes.

Yay, good news story!

And "who's the best doggie"

I fucking hate this comment. Plenty of people deserve dogs. And dogs deserve those people. Jessica and Molly in this article absolutely deserve each other.

"Dogs are so pure and kind that humanity as a whole, capable of great evil, should be grateful for their companionship"

"FUCK YOU!"

Evolution helps with this, because we are actually meant to hate our family, due to the danger of incest. It is a bit different for us humans, as we can see this concept in an abstract way, making us able to love our family, without trying to fuck them (at least in the literal sense).

“At the same time Lily, the cat of Jessica, was also missing. After looking for her with various notices, a neighbor reached out. It turns out that Lily was looking for a new family. Because Lily is a cat, and cats are disloyal pieces of shit”

(I like cats)

Reminds me of the dog episode from Futurama :'(

We arent meant to hate our families, wtf. They are one of the reasons civilization could even develop. Children being raised together develop a natural ick against fucking each other.

Did you read until the end of what I wrote, or did you just decide to go into defence mode preemptively?

Thank you for this. Been a tough couple of days for me, this made me laugh out loud.

She was almost certainly separated from her mom as a puppy.

What a ridiculous comment. There are many communal animals that cohabitate with family. Evolution doesn't have a reason for things. We aren't "meant to hate family." Some species do, for one reason or another that gave them an advantage at some point in time that may or may not have to do with incest, and some don't. Saying animals are supposed to is putting some divine influence on evolution that doesn't exist, and isn't true regardless.

Yeah, what a ridiculous comment.

I fucking hate this comment. Plenty of other people deserve a comment like this, but not this one.

I had to view an archive version because the captcha would not end. If "Adolescent separation-individuation and family transitions" is the correct article, that doesn't say anything about incest in the abstract at least. It only discussed people staying with families. In fact, it treats people who fail to maintain family connections as less well adjusted. I'm not sure what your point is, if this is the article you intended to link.

my heart skipped a beat when nibbler went to the same place and lay down in the spot.

I think your wording in the original comment is working against you.

Hate and sexual repulsion isn’t quite the same thing, neither is love and sexual attraction. People love their families, yet don’t necessarily feel sexual attraction toward them.

The way you phrased made it sound like the inherent disinclination toward sexual contact with family members somehow means you loathe them as people.

but how will i sound original and insightful if not by mindlessly repeating the platitude that has only been repeated one billion times before?

"OH you're alive? Good I guess, I'm hungry."

Shame it seems to always be non-humans

Nothing you have written in this thread is worth reading. Go read a fucking book.

I also like cats; as animals, they're just far more practical...

I was not even talking to you.

Are you an FBI agent?

You are typing in an open thread. Did you not expect replies?

Ah, I see, you just like to get offended by comments I aimed at others. Alright, you do you, buddy.

No offense was taken at all.

Would have been a good joke if I would have been talking about animals.

Alright, buddy.

Once again it seems your reading comprehension could use some work. Would you like to point out what indicates I was offended instead of just pointing at a dumb-ass comment and saying 'hey that was dumb.'

Nah, unfortunately I am busy reading fucking books. Now go ahead and enjoy your life with someone else. No reason for you to waste your time and energy here.

Alright, buddy.

Good!

more dogs for everyone else then

Have you ever seen a ragdoll.

I have two cats and every day when I come home from work they both come running to greet me, one comes over to actually say hello, and the other one comes over so she can make sure I can see it, when she snubs me. Unless I have shopping bags in which case all shopping must be thoroughly inspected.

Yes I know I have food in my bowl, I'm hungry for different food, or possibly the same food but without the hole in the middle.

Fuck, you sound like the worst (feline)

Same. They just wanted to torture us.

I meant to say the animals act more practical.

Sure a cat won’t jump into a burning building to save you; it’s a survivor and it knows it can’t drag you out anyway.

If you try to play with them like you would a dog, they just look at you like you’re a weirdo.

My SO in regards to our late cat: “I love Tuna but she’d sell me for a handful of Temptations”. Rest in peace gentle, but onery little void.

Mine’s sister from the next litter lives next door. She gets depressed if she can’t see her. Whimpers to be let out when she knows she’s outside. She is indifferent about their unrelated dog. Anecdotal, and not exactly the same thing but it made me wonder that too.

I had the same thought, actually…

I read the original story and it still makes me tear up

My dog is totally like that. I mean he likes me and all (I feed him and take him to the bathroom) but he’d be ok to not see me again too.

I don't think that's fair to say in this case, after all, it was humans that found the dog using an helicopter which is not cheap to fly.

In fact, to finance the helicopter flight they raised money and reached out more then five time their objective in 8 hours.

Is he a Cairn Terrier?

I was worried this was going to be a "Jurassic Bark" type of story, so glad it wasn't.