Baltic was rescued on January 25th after a ship’s crew spotted him floating on an ice floe fifteen miles from land in the Baltic Sea. He had traveled nearly seventy five miles down Poland’s Vistula River to get there. The crew of the Baltica, a Polish ship on a research mission, said the rescue was quite difficult. Researcher Natalia Drgas said the dog “kept slipping into the water and crawling back on top of the ice. At one point it vanished underwater, under the ship, and we thought it was the end. But then it emerged again and crawled on an ice sheet.” Firefighters in Grudziadz, on the Vistula nearly sixty miles inland from the bay where Baltic was finally rescued, tried to rescue him two days before he was pulled out of the water, but the ice sheets were shifting too rapidly.
The vet who checked Baltic out after his ordeal said he was in remarkably good shape. He’s had trouble sticking to the special diet she placed him on though, “Everybody loves him. All the crew spoils him terribly,” a spokeswoman said. “Just imagine – a crew of seasoned sailors who have experienced a lot in their lives, all crazy about a little dog.”
They aren’t the only ones who are crazy about Baltic. He has one Facebook fan page and he’s being bombarded with e-mail. Calls and e-mails have come in from as far as Australia and Canada, pleading for updates and photos and heaping praise on the crew of the ship for their bravery. The crew are considering setting up a Facebook account for Baltic, if only to manage his email.
Sadly, they still haven’t been able to find out where he comes from. One family drove more than thee hundred miles from the Czech Republic hoping that he was their lost dog.
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