Heroic moment Brazilian boy Thiago Magalhães, 11, saves puppy from being strangled after leash got stuck between elevator door
- Thiago Magalhães rescued his pet dog, Milú, from possibly being choked to death inside an elevator in Brazil last Wednesday
- The 11-year-old was followed into the elevator by his dog, whose leash was dragging on the floor before it got stuck between the doors
- Milú was briefly pulled to the ceiling but Magalhães grabbed on to the leash and was able to quickly pull his dog back
This is the quick-thinking boy who prevented his puppy from being strangled on her own collar after the leash got stuck between the elevator doors.
The heroic moment was captured on camera just as Thiago Magalhães, 11, and Milú were about leave to his building for a walk in Goänia, Brazil, last Wednesday.
Milú can be spotted in the video following the boy into the elevator as her leash from the collar dragged on the floor.
Magalhães reached to press the button for the ride before the elevator’s doors shut.
Thiago Magalhães seen here with his pet dog, Milú. The 11-year-old boy said he ‘felt a lot of despair’ when he saw his pet’s collar stuck between two elevator doors in his building in Brazil before he managed to rescue her
Surveillance camera shows Thiago Magalhães being pulled to the ceiling of his apartment building’s elevator moments before he was able to save his pet dog from possibly being choked to death by her own collar
The elevator moved within seconds and Milú could be seen being pulled to the elevator’s ceiling.
A frightened Magalhães reached for the collar and was dragged with her, too.
Somehow, the boy managed to hold on to the leash and prevent Milú from possibly being choked to death.
They subsequently fell to the ground as the collar broke. Magalhães later requested emergency assistance.
Thiago Magalhães was not aware that his dog’s leash was stuck between the elevator doors
Thiago Magalhães
He told Brazilian outlet G1 that he entered a state of desperation and panic as he saw his best friend dangling from the elevator ceiling.
‘I don’t know where I got the courage, I went on impulse,’ Magalhães said.
He and Milú were trapped in the elevator and were safely removed without incident.
‘I was very scared of what happened and realized that the situation was very serious and that it could have been fatal for both the dog and my son,’ the boy’s father, Rodrigo Magalhães, said.
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