Nice way to wake up....

[Guest Anonymous]

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[kendalyn]

Wow! What a crazy morning!

Poor Sandy must have been terrified :( Good thing you found her before it was too late. If firemen can get cats out of trees than they can get dogs out of pools! :lol:

Give your dogs some hugs for waking you up! :P

[Aonir]

Poor Sandy! I hope she gets a warm bed. Must keep her from going into shock! Maybe you can buy something for that nice fireman!

[Guest Anonymous]

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[courtnek]

Very lucky for Sandy, and Sally and the elderly lady, and you! Yes, there is a God...he looks after all of us.

Now, I have a friend who is a fireman, and I told him this story. He suggested this...

Take a picture of Sandy, you, your dogs, Sally and Sandy's owner (the elderly lady) if you can do that...will all of them get along ok?
Then write the story down in a nice letter with the fireman's name who helped you, and send it to the fire department. The fireman will get some kind of accolade for that, because helping animals in distress is not really part of their job, but they do it because they have the equipment to do so
and the training as well. Point out that despite the freezing cold water and
wind, the guy got in the pool without hesitation to help Sandy, who would have died otherwise. The other firemen will probably razz him a little, but he will appreciate the kudo's...what goes around, comes around. He did you a good deed, do one for him as well.

what an :angel:

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[Guest Anonymous]

what a morning for sure!
So glad everything turned out well! Very lucky for all of you and that fireman deserves an award! :D deffently an :angel: So glad there are people like that in the world, makes me feel like there IS hope afterall :)
Submiting the story to the newspaper is an awsome idea!

[Horsefeathers!]

I'm glad it had a happy ending.

Now... not to be a downer, but it's a good example of why to ALWAYS go see what the dogs are barking about. I know my own bark at every squirrel, bird, falling pine cone, passerby there is, but there have been occasions when they were barking at something worth checking out. I know it's a pain in the butt, but I ALWAYS check out what they're barking at before telling them to knock it off (mine are mostly in the house, so it's usually just a matter of going to the window... however, if they are outside barking, I always go to the door and look). Chances are it's nothing; it usually is, but you just never know...

I'm not trying to be confrontational. It just, IMO, brought up the perfect opportunity for others as well to learn why it's important to check on barking dogs. 99 times out of 100 it may be nothing, but that 100th time may make it worth having checked.

[Horsefeathers!]

I'd better elaborate a little on why I think it's important.

Last week, when Devin went after those children who were hiding in my yard in the dark, all h*ll was breaking loose in the yard and the dogs inside were barking their fool heads off because they saw the whole thing through the window. My husband was right there with them, watching tv, and never moved away from in front of the tv. Guess who got a good ol' fashioned butt chewing about not looking to see what the commotion was? His excuse was that the dogs always bark in the window when I drive up, so he saw no need for concern. However, things could have been MUCH worse that night and I could REALLY have used his assistance had he just gotten up to see what the problem was and not assumed that they were just barking as "normal." To say I was upset is putting it very mildly.

[courtnek]

I agree HF.....I have a QUIET command I use on my dogs, which, if it's no real threat, they will generally comply (after three attempts....lol) but if there really is something out there that bothers them, Freebee especially, she WONT shut up and will pace from my chair to the door, and whine. The whining is the dead giveaway. Then I will get up and check. She has saved me more than once from letting people in, or from getting my property vandalized....