Hi all,
I took Peanut out the yesterday and we were doing our usual walk along the canal which is frozen solid. All except for under a bridge where the ducks are. You guessed it she took off and went onto the ice, stopped, pointed and went after them. No amount of calling or treats of shouting at her made any difference. So off the end of the ice she went to my absolute horror.
I rushed round to get to her and she was 10 ft away at the edge of the ice desperately trying to get out. By this time I had two men breaking off a branch of a tree to break a channel for her to swim to me as the ice was breakable and too soft to walk on at the edge, (I tried!!)
We smashed and smashed away and had then got a lady crying her eyes out behind us and I started to get ready to go in after her, (I know the dangers due to my job, but in I was going). Then she managed to get her chest on the ice and it broke through to where we had made a channel to her and she swam to us.
Out she came, soaked and shivering so I dried her off and ran home with her to keep her moving and the blood pumping where I was told off for letting her off the lead even though she has never ventured onto the ice before off lead. Lesson learned I suppose but boy was it scary.
Hope this doesn't happen to any of you,
Graham
I took Peanut out the yesterday and we were doing our usual walk along the canal which is frozen solid. All except for under a bridge where the ducks are. You guessed it she took off and went onto the ice, stopped, pointed and went after them. No amount of calling or treats of shouting at her made any difference. So off the end of the ice she went to my absolute horror.
I rushed round to get to her and she was 10 ft away at the edge of the ice desperately trying to get out. By this time I had two men breaking off a branch of a tree to break a channel for her to swim to me as the ice was breakable and too soft to walk on at the edge, (I tried!!)
We smashed and smashed away and had then got a lady crying her eyes out behind us and I started to get ready to go in after her, (I know the dangers due to my job, but in I was going). Then she managed to get her chest on the ice and it broke through to where we had made a channel to her and she swam to us.
Out she came, soaked and shivering so I dried her off and ran home with her to keep her moving and the blood pumping where I was told off for letting her off the lead even though she has never ventured onto the ice before off lead. Lesson learned I suppose but boy was it scary.
Hope this doesn't happen to any of you,
Graham