- Dangling from one hand, he hooks his feet round the dog to save it from water
- Video shows him scoop the animal to safety with the help of another man
- The hero was praised as his rescue was uploaded to a Malaysian Facebook page
This footage shows the moment a drowning dog was rescued from a canal by a hero who hooked the struggling canine back to safety with his legs.
In the clip the quick-thinking man dangles from a safety barrier with one hand to retrieve the dog.
The video, which was uploaded to Malaysian Facebook page Siakap Keli, shows him hook his legs around the dog in a bid to haul it back to safety.
He in turn is pulled to safety by a bystander, who pulls the have-a-go hero to safety with the dog safely in his grip.
After his risky effort to save the dog, the long-haired man’s bravery was praised by viewers on Facebook.
The young man hooks his feet around the dog as he prepares to pull the animal to safety
Others pitch in to help as the man rescues the dog from the canal
The dog is rescued from the canal in what one person told Facebook was the ‘sweetest thing’ he’d seen that day
Stephanie Bueno called him a ‘wonderful young man’, adding: ‘Even though there is many bad things in our world there are lots of good things too.’
Another called Pradeep Pandey said the clip ‘is the sweetest thing that I saw today’ and John Bates wrote ‘it is our job as humans to be friends and protectors of animals! Thank you to all the people involved with saving that grateful animal’.