vidiu Iftode was bicycling near his home in Romania when his 13-year-old dog found several puppies thrown into a shallow river. Unable to bring them home, Ovidiu did what he could for the puppies on that first day. When he returned the next day, he discovered to his horror that the puppies had been taken and thrown into the river a second time. But the five puppies had a guardian angel in Ovidiu, who recounts how he came to rescue the puppies three separate times and eventually got them out of harm's way. It should be noted that discarding unwanted puppies is a common occurance in Romania. Ovidiu wrote, "It's pretty disgusting I know, but the way people think around here is that they'll become stray and attack smaller animals for food." Here is Ovidiu's first-hand account of rescuing the puppies: