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A 73-year-old California man went Russell Crowe on a bear that threatened the life of his dog Lacy, whom he loves like a child and would do anything to protect.

By Todd Tanner | FOX 13

On a recent spring day, I traveled to a remote northern shoreline of the Great Salt Lake to shoot video of the Spiral Jetty, not knowing I would end up shooting video of a bizarre event that would play out nearby.

No one knows how a mutt ended it up trapped in the dirty waters of a canal in Cali, Colombia, but what everyone does know is that a heroic man, stripped off his work clothes to jump into the canal and save the dog.

A large group of people gathered around the canal to witness how a man, with the help of two policemen, helped saved a dog trapped in the canal. The dog was hardly visible from the street, the canine was not moving and he rested in the dark waters surrounded by garbage.

From the Speranza Animal Rescue in Pennsylvania:

I got a call this morning regarding a stray dog in Harrisburg. She was seen sleeping on a lady’s front porch.

By the time I got there she had left… I decided to drive around for a few minutes and that’s when I spotted her – eating out of a pile of trash.

Any time you get out of your car on a high-speed road, you’re putting your life at risk.  But for some, the risk is well worth it when an animal is in urgent need of rescue.  That was the case for Rodrigo González, who gladly stopped to help an injured dog that otherwise would have died.