This photo released by San Diego Fire-Rescue shows Sadie, a black Labrador retriever-mix, on a lifeguard boat heading to shore after being rescued from the water near Mission Beach, San Diego, Nov. 23, 2025. (San Diego Fire-Rescue via AP)

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A pup that was swept out to sea by a rip current must be feeling doggone lucky after her unlikely rescue off the San Diego coast.

Sadie, a black Labrador retriever-mix, stole away from the home where her owners were staying during a football game last month, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said in a social media post. While her owners tracked Sadie down the coast using an Airtag on her collar, surfers in Ocean Beach alerted lifeguards that a dog had been swept into the rip current near the jetty, officials said.

A U.S. Coast Guard

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