Dog pulled from ruff seas 220 km off Thai coast to be adopted by rescuer


This handout from Vitisak Payalaw taken on April 12, 2019 and released to AFP on April 16, 2019 shows Boonrod the dog after he was rescued by workers on an oil rig off the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. - An exhausted dog found paddling 220 kilometres (135 miles) off the Thai coast is set for a new lease on life after an oil rig worker who rescued him promised to adopt the plucky pooch. (Photo by Handout / VITISAK PAYALAW / AFP)

BANGKOK (AFP) :An exhausted dog found paddling 220 kilometres (135 miles) off the Thai coast is set for a new lease on life after an oil rig worker who rescued him promised to adopt the plucky pooch.

The tan-coloured dog, named Boonrod by his rescuers -- Thai for “survivor from karma” -- was fished from the ocean on Friday by rig workers who spotted his head bobbing between the waves in the Gulf of Thailand.

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