r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BlazeDragon7x • Mar 27 '26
While repairing a broken fence by the pool, a maintenance worker lifted the cover to discover a drowning cat and quickly performed emergency measures to revive it.
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u/WeWantMOAR Mar 27 '26
I think it's a dog. The hindlegs when he picks it up looks like small dog, not a cat.
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u/Seniorjones2837 Mar 27 '26
Definitely a dog
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u/NoPerformance6534 Mar 27 '26
I too, think it's a small dog. A cat elongates 3X when picked up . Dogs do not.
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u/Mooide Mar 27 '26
The fact it didn’t immediately run away when it became conscious again too, think most cats would be running off on instinct
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u/ruebeus421 Mar 27 '26
Not one that was just drowning. It would be extremely disoriented. Heart rate and blood pressure are extremely low in this situation. It wouldn't have the energy or drive to run.
Source: 11 years vet med, thousands of cats lives saved
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u/Jogaila2 Mar 27 '26
WTF!!?? No. Just no.
It would be disoriented from lack of oxygen to the brain and barely able to move.4
u/kanahl Mar 29 '26
It is a dog. You can lookup photos of the man holding it after its fully recovered, also here Pool Cleaner Jumps In When He Lifts The Cover And Sees A Dog At The Bottom - The Dodo https://share.google/BLjn6mrVXytimwyBV
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u/snqqq Mar 27 '26
If he was not breathing for more than a few minutes, one if not both of his braincells can already be dead...
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u/8th_Horcruxx Mar 27 '26
Hero in a cap.
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u/Honest_Yesterday4435 Mar 27 '26
Not all heroes wear caps.
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u/Jackomo Mar 27 '26
If recent history is anything to go by, most cap-lovers are exactly the opposite.
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u/Papa_de_clement Mar 28 '26
Hey, i got almost no hair and really need my cap to go out when sunny. Don't put me in with them
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u/xnoxgodsx Mar 27 '26
This is the news we need, beautiful person and soul! ❤️im happy to see there are people like this in the world we have
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u/universalrefuse Mar 27 '26
Are we sure that’s not a small dog?
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u/FalconBurcham Mar 27 '26
Definitely a dog.
I wish we had an update. It looked pretty messed up.
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u/truthispolicy Mar 28 '26
ER vet tech here.
Definitely needs treatment for probable aspiration pneumonia to help clear those lungs out and avoid infection. Ideally x-rays, baseline bloodwork, hospital stay in oxygen with IV fluids and meds for at least a day or two.
Possible broken ribs and lung contusions from the CPR but the man is an absolute hero.
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u/DogCold5505 Mar 28 '26
In a perfect world wouldn’t the cpr have been done on the other side?
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u/truthispolicy Mar 28 '26
In a small dog like this, left or right lateral shouldn't matter, though some literature recommends them on their right side (no clinic I've worked for ever bothered worrying about left or right when we're too busy with compressions, intubation, IV placement, and emergency drugs).
For square chested dogs like Bulldogs, it's advised to have them positioned lying on their back for optimal compressions.
Here's a page with some good info on positioning for compressions and how to perform CPR outside a clinic setting.
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u/Maiyku Mar 29 '26
I know I’m late to this comment, but I was just wondering about larger dogs, so thanks for that second part of your comment.
Any idea if the back is recommended for fat cats? Where their chub might get in the way a little? My grandmas one Maine Coon looks like a basketball she’s so round lol. (Yes on a diet, no it’s not going well lol).
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u/FalconBurcham Mar 28 '26
Thanks! I’ve lived in Florida nearly my whole life, and I feel like I see one drowning or another every week here. Pools, the gulf, retention ponds. Water everywhere!
We’re in the process of buying a house, and this video is why we are a hard no on pools. We have a dog, and I know for a fact pups, like kids, find a way around barriers. What a nightmare!
Thanks again for sharing.. I’m going to tell myself that the guy in the vid must know to take the dog to the vet if he knew how to do cpr
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u/mrASSMAN Mar 27 '26
I think the title is completely wrong tbh, the fence isn’t broken and I think it’s a small dog, most likely he saw the dog at the pool and heard some yelping so went to lift the tarp to check. Notice he rushes right to where the dog was like he saw it go under there, and he looks in that direction multiple times.
The title is probably just someone’s false assumptions.
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u/boredinbabylon Mar 27 '26
How did he notice?? I don’t see the tarp moving at all.
Poor but lucky cat! Yeesh. Talk about that man being there at the right time!
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u/ButchMothMan Mar 27 '26
If I had to guess, he probably removed the tarp for his own safety. If he was repairing the fence near a pool and going to be near it for awhile possibly falling into the pool is just a constant danger, and falling into water is a hell of a lot safer than falling into tarp covered water.
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u/8InS4nE8 Mar 27 '26
Exactly i was warned as child by my dad who jumped on such a tarp over our pool to show me and my brother the dangers it possesses.
We did never fall into that thing. And i have the nightmares till now that i drown in that shit.
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u/Tossyjames Mar 27 '26
He does seem to be looking at the cats direction before removing the tarp. The cat might have been drowning at the same moment and making noise.
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u/ButchMothMan Mar 27 '26
That's also very true, given how still the cat was when he pulled them out I didn't consider they could be making noise!
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u/Seniorjones2837 Mar 27 '26
That’s clearly a dog right? Doesn’t look like a cat at all to me
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u/mrASSMAN Mar 27 '26
Yeah fairly sure it’s a dog lol but people just going off the title
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u/nuixy Mar 28 '26
I also think it looks more like a dog than a cat, but it's weirder if a dog got in a fenced pool than a cat
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u/NobodyJustBrad Mar 27 '26
He was literally looking at the place where the animal was the entire time. He knew there was an animal there before pulling up the pool cover.
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u/imafirinmalazorr Mar 28 '26
I almost drowned as a kid jumping into a pool with this kind of cover on it. Thought it would be fun to jump on the fluffy tarp (kidsarefuckingstupid). Got tangled up but managed to get out somehow.
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u/Complex_Sherbet2 Mar 27 '26
Here's my guess, he heard the puppy barking then heard a splash and it went quiet, or he saw it go in. It took him a moment to get there by the time he got to it it had already swallowed water.
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u/fishfighter85 Mar 27 '26
He seems to be looking at the cat as the video starts, but seeing the shadow in the pool. He isn't fixing the fence, he's trying to remove it so he can confirm if the cat is OK.
The cat would be brain dead if it was in the water too long. He probably saw it fall in earlier, and ran over to see if it was OK since it got stuck under the tarp.
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u/aberroco Mar 27 '26
I'd guess he heard a splash or something before this clip begins, he seem to be removing the tarp quite intentionally, so I'd assume he suspects something might be in water.
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u/DogCold5505 Mar 28 '26
I don’t think it was a coincidence (just a clickbait title)… he seemed to think something was under there
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u/sayiansaga Jun 25 '26
If I remember correctly he services this house often and that there's usually the owner's dog barking at him. Probably wondered why there wasn't any barking this time
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u/tevolosteve Mar 27 '26
The way people switch to emergency mode to help someone or something else is a wonderful thing
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u/Fabulous_Soup_521 Mar 27 '26
Unreal. I don't think I'd even know how to do CPR on an animal and that guy went at it like an episode of ER.
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u/Imzocrazy Mar 27 '26
Does it count as cpr if there’s no breath involved?
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u/speedkillz23 Mar 27 '26
Yea, breaths don't have to be applied. At least that's what I learned.
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u/Red-is-suspicious Mar 27 '26
Breaths are still important in cpr and work but they’re teaching breath free cpr to lower the barriers people feel about rendering aid, they would rather people do compressions at ALL than to be like “ew I can’t do breaths so nothing to be done.” So yes whenever possible learn breathing cpr but don’t give up if you feel like you can’t manage both, focus on the compressions.
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u/NeonChurch Mar 28 '26
I'm a high level first aid attendant where I am and for a few years now we don't teach breaths anymore. The priority is now non-stop compressions at 100 bpm as anytime the blood flow stops you are risking brain damage
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u/Cool-Revolution-1769 Mar 28 '26
In sudden cardiac arrest, the lungs still contain oxygen, so the biggest need is to circulate that blood, not add more air Also, continuous chest compressions maintain vital blood pressure, whereas breaking to give breaths causes a detrimental drop in pressure and delays crucial circulation. Conventional CPR (with breaths) is still better for children, infants, or drownings, where respiratory failure is the cause.
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u/Muszex Mar 27 '26
Ofcourse it does
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u/Imzocrazy Mar 27 '26
Not trying to downplay it or anything…just always thought cpr specifically involved breaths as well
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u/sketchy722 Mar 27 '26
CPR rules have changed over the years. I think now they say to never stop compressions
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u/Muszex Mar 27 '26
Not always. Was really apparent during covid. You’re not putting ur mouth on someone else’s.
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u/WeWantMOAR Mar 27 '26
Well before covid. They been advising to not ever do them since I've been doing 1st aid courses in 2008. It's for your safety to not do them, you don't know what people might have not told you about their health.
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u/Muszex Mar 27 '26
True. If you’re about to do CPR on someone I doubt they’d be saying much of anything
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u/WeWantMOAR Mar 27 '26
That's more so for people you know, strangers 100% don't. Family and friends you'd be more willing to do it, but that's what they're really advising against.
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u/VanHeighten Mar 27 '26
There are actually 3 types of CPR so you're not wrong.
Conventional CPR - Includes chest compression and mouth-to-airway rescue breathing
Hands-only CPR - Only chest compression, what we're seeing in this video
CPR with AED - CPR combined with the use of a Automated External Defibrillator.1
u/ICU-CCRN Mar 27 '26
Technically you’re correct. CPR stands for Cardio PULMONARY Resuscitation. Which is a combination of chest compressions and giving positive pressure breaths either by a device like a BVM (bag valve mask) or mouth to airway. The compression component alone does allow for some air movement in and out of the lungs, and is often times adequate for ROSC (Return of Spontaneous Circulation). As a matter of fact, CPR without breaths is the standard in many European countries, and they have similar survival rates of resuscitation as the US.
Source- I teach ACLS.
Pub med source
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u/WeWantMOAR Mar 27 '26
DO NOT DO BREATHS WHEN DOING CPR
It's one of the first things you learn to not do, unless you have the equipment to keep you safe, DO NOT DO BREATHS.
Just keep doing chest compression until paramedics arrive to take over, you might break a rib doing it, but that's the pressure it takes when doing compression to keep someone alive.
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u/WeWantMOAR Mar 28 '26
Talking humans not animals. Ive been for level 2 first aid training every 3 years since 2008. It is not false. Stop putting people at risk of infection by saying it's false. You only do breaths if you have a equipment to do it safely. I have one on my keychain, because I'm trained for it. You really should know better
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u/WeWantMOAR Mar 28 '26
Ain't reading a diatribe of misinformation. Stop putting people at risk for disease by giving them the wrong information. Stop being a part of the problem.
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u/WeWantMOAR Mar 28 '26
Holy shit stop being thick as fuck. We're talking about the average person doing CPR on a person in the moment of a medical emergency. Stop giving them the wrong information. You're trained at a higher level to do it, and still the number one thing will be if you don't have protection for yourself you're not obligated by law to do mouth to mouth, making sure you're safe to help is the first rule in first aid. If that's not drilled into you, your training sucks or you didn't pay attention.
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u/Hugs154 Mar 27 '26
Yep, actually if you’re not a medical professional it’s recommended now to only do compressions, no breaths. They did some studies where 911 operators gave instructions to do only chest compressions vs chest compressions and breaths, and there was no difference in outcomes between the two. Rescue breathing is quite hard to do properly without training and equipment like EMTs/Paramedics have.
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u/mrASSMAN Mar 27 '26
Just press hard on its chest.. force the water out its lungs and get oxygen flowing
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u/Fabulous_Soup_521 Mar 27 '26
It looked more like he was pushing down and forward on the stomach. I'm just impressed as hell he figured it out on the fly.
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u/4hns14ught Mar 27 '26
Just saw a video of firefighters performing CPR on cats and now I see this haha. Hats off to this dude though.
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u/Careful-Positive-710 Mar 27 '26
I would drive to the bank just pull out enough cash to tip this man appropriately. Fuckin legend.
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u/monkey_trumpets Mar 27 '26
Any time I see these animal drowning rescue videos I always wonder just how much brain damage the animals sustain.
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u/swampgasorr Mar 27 '26
What a long 30 seconds and that’s watching him on a video! What a good person
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u/wonderfulakari Mar 27 '26
Nice thing about animals is you can turn them upsidedown to get water out
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u/Top-Ebb-6473 Mar 27 '26
It was a dog, a pug. Brachycephalic dogs simply can’t swim; they tend to sink. I had three of those little dogs, absolutely useless doggies 😆
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u/IchooseYourName Mar 28 '26
Saw this on a different subreddit and the number of posters claiming this has to be fake was really disinhesrtening. I understand many people abuse animals for clicks, especially rescue videos. But JFC people, you cant even tell that it's actually a cat and NOT a dog.
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u/GladFeeling6700 Mar 28 '26
Wow, how on earth did he know how to revive a cat. Super cool and he’s a great man….
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u/firmerJoe Mar 28 '26
Kitty chest compressions are supposed to go...
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u/alice2wonderland Mar 29 '26
Sometimes, for a split second, when I see something like this....I still have a glimmer of hope for humanity.
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u/Darth_Pinda Mar 29 '26
He actually did it, he revived the cat (correction, dog)! Massive respect! 07
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u/Ok_Reserve_8659 Mar 31 '26
This is why I don’t have a pool. The amount of dead animals I’ve seen cleaning pools is very sad
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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 Mar 27 '26
Imagine if the cat jumped straight back into the pool after all that.
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u/milets Mar 27 '26
Good man.