--- title: Dwayne The Rock Johnson Saved His French Bulldog Puppies description: What did you do this Labor Day weekend? canonical: https://time.com/4024813/the-rock-french-bulldog-puppies/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-08T14:03:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:23.174Z og:title: Dwayne The Rock Johnson Saved His French Bulldog Puppies og:description: What did you do this Labor Day weekend? og:url: https://time.com/4024813/the-rock-french-bulldog-puppies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dwayne The Rock Johnson Saved His French Bulldog Puppies twitter:description: What did you do this Labor Day weekend? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Rock Saved His Adorable French Bulldog Puppies From Drowning by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 8, 2015 2:03 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 8, 2015 2:03 PM UTC Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a hero. Not only did the action star save the lives of his new French bulldog puppies, but he also saved the day from post-long weekend ennui thanks to the photo he posted of himself, soaking wet, holding two puppies. The pro-wrestler turned actor posted a cautionary tale on [Instagram ](https://instagram.com/p/7WKo6fIh2Y/) involving his two new French bulldog puppies, Brutus and Hobbs, a swimming pool and his cell phone. The _Ballers_ star brought his new puppies home over the weekend and when he tried to introduce them to the great outdoors, they made a beeline for his swimming pool. Since Frenchies are not known for their flotation skills, being quite top-heavy, one of the pups swam, while the other immediately sank to the bottom of the pool. Johnson dove into the water to save the tiny dog, but in his haste to be a real life action hero, he forgot to take his cellphone out of his pocket. At least phones are replaceable. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4024813/the-rock-french-bulldog-puppies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4024813/the-rock-french-bulldog-puppies/"},"headline":"The Rock Saved His Adorable French Bulldog Puppies From Drowning","datePublished":"2015-09-08T14:03:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:23.174Z","description":"What did you do this Labor Day weekend?","url":"https://time.com/4024813/the-rock-french-bulldog-puppies/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","celebrities","Heroes","the rock","dwayne johnson"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4024813/the-rock-french-bulldog-puppies/","name":"The Rock Saved His Adorable French Bulldog Puppies From Drowning"}}]}] ```