Life, you suck sometimes.
Ok this is one story that is just crappy all around. A family of mom, dad, sister, 16-year-old brother and brother's girlfriend were on the beach in northern California playing fetch with their pet dog on Saturday. The dog went to get the stick when a so-called "sneaker wave", a popular term for a disproportionately large coastal wave that may appear in a wave train and is most often reported along the northwest US coast, washed over the dog, rolling him in the waves.