An iguana miles out at sea and a groundhog with a can on its head: Sassy's newest rescues
The animal-rescue clips channel added more than a fifth to its subscriber count in seven days, and several of its newest shorts end with a fishing net or a piece of litter being pulled away.
Sassy Story of Why this story? The channel went from 979,000 to 1,190,000 subscribers this week.
How does an iguana end up swimming in the open ocean, miles from any shore? The description under one of Sassy's newest shorts admits that nobody knows. A man on an offshore boating trip spotted the lizard, stopped the boat, let it climb aboard and gave it a ride back to land. The clip passed two million views within a couple of days.
Sassy is a clips channel. It gathers rescues filmed by other people around the world and posts them as shorts, and its audience is still growing quickly. The channel added 211,000 subscribers over the past seven days and now stands at about 1.19 million. A day earlier, as we reported here, the seven-day gain was 193,000.
Look across the latest uploads and a thread runs through them: much of the trouble was made by people. In the Maldives, a turtle was wrapped in a fishing net until a passenger jumped in with mask and fins and the crew cut it free. Elsewhere, a fisherman untangled a dolphin from a net, and it stayed calm beside his boat while he worked. In the Smoky Mountains, a hiking family found a groundhog with a can stuck over its face. The husband pulled it off after a couple of tries, and the family carried the can out with them.
Not every animal was caught in litter. A dog swept over a dam wall was reached by a rescuer on a line, and a young deer was helped out of a concrete pit. The newest short went up on Monday: a dog stuck in deep mud near an old farm, found by a man who followed the barking.
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- Channel
- Sassy
- Subscribers
- 1,190,000 ▲ 211,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 317,512,171
- Channel views, pace per day
- 31,375,736 (on a normal day: 42,726,887)
The numbers
Sassy's subscriber count rose by more than a fifth in a single week, and several of its new shorts passed a million views within days.
💡 Test your knowledge
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where the groundhog was rescued, lies in which two states?
The park straddles the border between Tennessee and North Carolina along the crest of the Great Smoky Mountains.
