I appreciate the effort, but the pup looked like it was breathing and didn't really need mouth to mouth...and also, that's not how you do it with dogs. you close the mouth and do mouth to snout.
Still, total hero there to jump into the raging river and risk his life for a dog. Bravo sir.

*promote

Who lets their kid be an a-hole like this? Was that not an aggressive shitty thing to do? Go pup!

Am I reading into this too much?

At least he was kind enough to put boots on his pup.

@newtboy
Granted the advice isn't applicable to all situations, take the details of Digitalfiend's case for example, hence I didn't comment on that case (I had no advice, and I did consider it for a while. "Teach your dog not to play" wasn't a notion I was willing to back).
In light of the new info provided I state a disclaimer, the preparation you can do is limited by your circumstances.
Seems you've done well enough, and the occurrences for concern have locational limitations with positively influential perpetrators.
If I had had that, I wouldn't have gotten my 2nd awesome happy dog.

We weren't experienced trainers, however we did have an advantage and took the opportunity to start the training the day we got him as a pup, oppose to having got him later in his life.

As for the level of training, he came when called if he wanted, he stopped barking when he wanted, and he tried eating my cat, because he wanted.
With exception to my teasing kitty, he didn't eat without a command and he was incredibly road smart, as these 2 things were necessary for his survival and the maintenance of his high quality of life.

@robbersdog49
Yes there's assumptions, as I don't know newtboy or the respective living conditions and hardships (but my knowledge has marginally increased today).
Any assumptions of normalcy brought forth from a lack of advised uncommon details, is merely reviewing the situation as it has been described. Would you argue that I should have imagined some unstated details and responded to those?

We all make upwards of 100,000's of assumptions a day. The seat your sitting in, did you check it for poisonous spiders before sitting? why not? Is it because there wasn't any last time and you had no reason to suspect otherwise?
Our brains are smarter than we commonly realise and they use cheat sheets (commonly manifested as assumptions) to get us through every moment of our lives.
Holding humans to their likelihood driven assumptions is a frail thing as it's often met with "oh, i didn't know".

Victim blaming? No, not quite.
Fact: you have a greater chance of controlling your pets, then you do strangers.
The point is little more than to focus on the area's that you can more greatly and reliably influence. To simplify it, it's to aim for the greatest reward with minimal resource (in this case, effort).

The rest of your comment is idealistic. You get no argument from me as I agree, and no realistically debatable point has been made. We don't live in a utopia and those whom acknowledge this while aiming for something, stand a better chance of gaining a modicum of their interests.

"it would be good if people were good". Yes. Would. If. One day

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Who's a good pup?!

You are, yes, you are.

...and you
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Awesome dogs!

Daaaaaamn, kitteh!? WTF?? (That cat is so bad-ASSSS!)

...roommate's black lab Harley used to perforate the stack of mail with one CHOMP if you didn't beat him to the front door..traumatized by a mail carrier as a pup with the pepper-spray.

Seems it survived unscathed ... I just found this:

Brian Kaloper, harbormaster at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Marina, was walking to his office on Monday morning when something caught his eye.

It was a seal on the marina’s G dock. Given that the dock is heavily traveled, Kaloper thought it was odd to see the animal there.

“When I got into my office, we turned on our security cameras to see what was going on,” he said.

Soon, Kaloper was treated to an astonishing sight. As the camera recorded, the seal gave birth to a pup, alternately laboring and taking a few breaks to rest. Immediately after the pup was born, the mother turned around and nudged its face and body, as if to make sure it was alright, then looked around the dock.

Marina staff quickly locked the door to the gate to protect the mother and baby, put up caution tape and kept the dock closed for a few hours, until the mother and newborn were back in the water. Kaloper said though marina staff are used to seeing wildlife around the facilty, the birth was astonishing to witness.

“Our staff sees plenty of seals and pups swimming about, but to catch nature in its most pure form on camera during a regular Monday was unbelievable,” he said.

How are mommy and pup? Is there a followup because it doesn't seem to be moving.

The pups do not belong to me. They are the offspring of my sister's poodle. They will be going to new homes this week.

The mother of these three as a puppy herself- previously sifted:

http://videosift.com/video/Dotdude-You-mean-UNCLE-Dotdude

http://videosift.com/video/Whining-Puppy

Yes. Yes. This.

In a world full of cat videos, love for the pups in the world need representation!

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I love the responses the lady gave the reporter:

"I know exactly what happened..."
She's a Tough cookie, I'm glad her dog survived

Although I kinda wanted to back hand the interviewer, she just stood there while the lady asked for help to lift the rubble off the pup.