During a school trip to India, our group was scheduled to do home stays in a village. My host family had a young dog in training to be their guard dog. He was skinny and timid(胆小的)，chained up in the hot gravel(砾石)yard without water，and no one was nice to him. I could tell he was going to have a terrible life,and my heart ached for him.

Since I had lost my husband to cancer just three months before, the sadness at seeing this dog attached to that greater sadness. When we left the village the next day, I could not stop thinking about Jimmy,the dog. Upon arriving home, I asked one of the travel arrangers to call the family who owned him,and ask if I could buy their dog. They were happy to sell him．Next he needed a rabies(狂犬病)shot，and 30 days，before being able to travel.

Three months after I had met Jimmy,I returned to India to pick him up. When I was being driven to the village it struck me that I had only met him for only a couple of hours, and that was three months ago. He might not remember me, or trust me. As we drove into the village and I walked into the yard, I saw him. He had grown quite a bit since our last meeting.With some worry I called his name,“Jimmy?”He turned around, with ears back, mouth smiling, tail wagging,he ran toward me and threw himself on the ground so that I could scratch(挠)his belly.

He was overjoyed,and so was I. His new life was a big transition(转变)for both of us at first，since he had never been in a car, or a house, and was afraid of men,afraid of sticks (the men would beat him with sticks),afraid of dogs,and only ate Indian food.Jimmy has been my dog now for six years,and not a day goes by without my loving Jimmy.

One cold winter day, a dog walked to the edge of an icy river in Poland. Nobody know for sure where the dog came from or what he was doing there. But he was about to have a big adventure.   

Without warning, the ice that the dog was standing on broke away from the land. The dog was swept down the river on the sheet of ice half the size of football field. The frightened dog looked for a way to get back to the shore, but he was trapped on the ice. The river was too cold for him to swim to safety.

Some firefighters saw the dog drifting down the river as he passed through their city. They tried to help him, but they couldn’t reach him. The firefighters could only watched as the ice carried the dog farther down the river.

On the fourth day, the dog passed the mouth of the river and was swept out into the Baltic Sea. He had traveled more than 75 miles (120km) from where he began. he was moving farther away from land and any hope of rescue. The piece of ice he was standing on shrunk to the size of picnic table.

The dog was facing a deadly end to his an adventure, but his luck was about to change. some scientists and sailors aboard a research ship named the Baltica were passing through the area. They saw an animal moving on the ice in the distance and decide to ascertain.

At first, people on the ship thought the animal was a seal. They were amazed when they got closer and saw that the “seal” had four legs, floppy ears, and a tail. They had found a dog floating on the ice 15 Miles (24km) from land.

The Baltica’s sailors were able to bring their ship close to the dog. They lowered a net next to the dog, but he was too scared to climb into it. The dog even slipped and fell into the cold water while they were trying to help him. Luckily, he was able to climb back onto the slippery ice.

Fearing that the dog would drown, the crew lowered a raft. Adam, the ship’s mechanic, used the raft to get close to the dog. Adam grabbed the dog by the back of the neck and pulled him into the raft.

Now, Baltic is the mascot(吉祥物) of the research ship that found him and travels with the crew everywhere. He has many fans around the world who learned about his incredible journey and rescue. The president of Poland even wrote a letter to the crew of the ship, praising them for saving Baltic’s life. Baltic started out cold, wet, and alone on the ice but ended up warm, dry, and surrounded by new friends.