A thoughtful security guard in Giffnock, Scotland, went viral on social media after he protected a dog from the rain.
Ethan Dearman was standing outside a Morrisons grocery store when he spotted a pup tied to a post, waiting for its owner to finish shopping in the rain.
Dearman was captured on camera by a passerby, holding an umbrella over the dog. The picture was shared on Twitter by user Crisp Rat with a caption: “Shout out to this @Morrisons security man keeping this good boy dry.” She tweeted, “He said ‘well you never know how dogs feel about the rain.’”
The image was shared more than 20,000 times, liked over 150,000 times, and people thanked the man, calling him a ‘hero.’
The guard, identified as Dearman, tweeted an acknowledgment of the moment: “Looks like I made a lot of people happy today,” he wrote.
“I just wanna give the Morrisons Giffnock team a shout out,” he tweeted. “If it wasn’t for the teamwork between staff on a daily basis, then I wouldn’t have been able to shelter Freddie from the rain and watch customer queues while staff members at the door continued to count the numbers inside.”
Many users expressed displeasure with the dog’s owner for leaving it tied up in the rain, but Dearman explained that the dog belonged to a friend of his and that he was keeping an eye on the pup until its owner completed his shopping.
Later, the man who identified himself as the dog’s owner also thanked Dearman, saying: “Our dog Freddie has went viral after [a] kind security man put up his umbrella for Freddie when it started raining at the Morrisons near my parents’ house,” the owner, David Cherry, wrote. “Good community vibes. People looking out for each other. He’s always nice to my Dad and brother, it’s nice to hear nice things.”
Although the act may have been small, the love and sincerity of the security guard for the dog were highlighted by his kindness.
