We came terrifyingly close to losing our dog last night. She came with me about 9 pm on a beer run out to my shop. When I came out, someone had set off some aerial fireworks (hey, it's midnight somewhere!). She's never had any trouble with that so I didn't really think twice. Went inside. To shorten the story, it took us about 1.5 hours to find her. She'd fallen into our creek about 1/4 mile from the house. It's got steep clay cutbank sides; she couldn't get out. It was below freezing out.
We'd already been trying hard for that 1.5 hours to find her. We finally realized we could sometimes hear the faintest possible cries, so faint we weren't believing our ears. Don't know how much longer she could have lasted; she was half submerged and freezing. Looked like a drowned skunk. But------ happy ending, so HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
