John Alexander Palomino Bendives was looking forward to relaxing in the apartment he shares with his mother and four dogs in Peru after working in the field for two weeks.
However, before he could even enter the premises, Bendives was once again called upon to save the life of his beloved dog, Mina.
When Bendives and his girlfriend got to the front of his apartment building, their presence was noticed. Mina and the other dogs were looking down from his family’s fourth-floor rooftop apartment, where they were happy to see him come home.
In a few seconds, Bendives would be there to greet them. But it looks like that was a little too long to wait for Mina.
Mina began to tumble to the street below as she either lost her footing and slipped or misjudged the distance and leaped. Thankfully, Bendives’s fast thinking allowed him to catch her in his arms.
Here’s that dramatic moment on video.
To his immense relief, Bendives was able to save Mina from what could have been certain death. And to hers as well.
“She was OK, unharmed,” Bendives told The Dodo. “Mina was happy and grateful, as you can see in the video. She didn’t stop wagging her tail out of happiness.”
When Bendives got home, all of his puppies were very happy. Mina, it’s clear, a little too much so.
Bendives said this scary incident has the family planning to make some changes: “We are looking at putting up a mesh [barrier] on the roof so that they can continue to sit up there, but without the risk of falling again.”
It’s the least they could do now that the unthinkable has happened and disaster was just about averted.
“I love my pets very much,” Bendives said. “They always receive me with a lot of love and emotion. The time I spend at home, I try to spend as much time as possible with them.”
