{"id":5382,"date":"2019-01-29T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2019-01-29T21:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:28:28","slug":"sulley-ice-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/sulley-ice-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sulley Ice Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sulley is Alive! <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Sulley fell into the lake today. He was far enough from the shore, that I didn\u2019t consider going into the ice to get him. He was not far from the dock. I got GSD Emma into house. I figured she would try to go out on ice and \u201cplay\u201d with Sulley. I had no idea what to do. I did think about hiding in the house till he died. I looked at a heavy lawn chair and got the idea to use it to stab and break the ice. It flew out of my hands when I made my first stab. It did land close beside him.
I went to garage to find something heavy. I had no idea what would work. Meanwhile, he was trying claw his way out of the ice. I knew he was going to die. How long does it take before they freeze to death and go under?
I saw a concrete block at the garage. With my new super human strength, I carried the block to the lake and got on the dock. I threw the block between Sulley and the dock. He managed to move close to the dock. I got down on my belly with one arm free to reach. I anchored my other arm around the wooden beam of a bench. Sulley made it to where I could reach him. He has a good fitting collar without a name tag. I had put on another collar that had a tag with my phone number.
I had gloves on. I managed to get hold of both collars. I could keep his head out of the water with one arm.
I maneuvered my shoulders over the edge so both arms were usable.
I heaved him up on the dock with my new super human strength, one hand around collars and the other on his bottom. All 4 legs were on wood. I let go and managed to heave myself up on my 2 legs.
There is a metal grate between the dock and the earth. The holes are too wide for a dog\u2019s feet. I got hold of his collars again and heaved him from dock to earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Both of us were able to walk to house. He was violently shivering. He occasionally stopped to lick at his front feet. I yelled at him. We made it into house. I got a towel and rubbed him.
He went to his dog bed and laid down, still shivering. Luckily we have a nearby space heater. I aimed it at him full blast.
He is able to walk around with some tottering on his back legs. I figure they were frozen
I ended up gasping for air. I became able to talk to tell the spouse what happened.
Next was coughing exactly like you choke on water going down your windpipe. Coughing lasted a while.
I\u2019m at Grits and Grace Restaurant drinking Jack Daniels bourbon and Pepsi! That was after I polished off the last half glass of their dry wine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Sulley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sulley is Alive! Sulley fell into the lake today. He was far enough from the shore, that I didn\u2019t consider going into the ice to get him. He was not far from the dock. I got GSD Emma into house. I figured she would try to go out on ice and \u201cplay\u201d with Sulley. I had no idea what to do. I did think about hiding in the house till he died. I looked at a heavy lawn chair and got the idea to use it to stab and break…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}