Not all Russian dash-cam videos are about violence and painful accidents; some are on the lighter and even on the more caring side.

Take this Russian couple, travelling on a dirt road somewhere in Olkhon, the fourth-largest lake-bound island in the world, for example.

I don’t know how they spotted the burrowing rodent (don’t take my word for it, but it could be Russia’s equivalent of the North American prairie dog, the bobak marmot) that was stuck in a hole, but they did and they immediately jumped out to help the poor animal that had put itself in a…very tight pickle.

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