Tonya
11-23-2003, 09:12 AM
We've been busy painting around here. Yesterday, I decided to chain the dogs up out front to occupy them.
I chained Dusty and Roxy up, and Teddy took off. Well, I jumped in the truck to go chase him. Dusty and Roxy were in front of me. I could see them, so I wasn't worried about running them over. As I was backing away, I heard something drag, and I felt the truck pull. It didn't want to back out. I could see the dogs still. I thought I didn't have it in drive all the way (my mind was fixed on getting Teddy), so I put it in drive again, gassed it, and backed out of the driveway. All of a sudden. I heard a wierd sound, the truck freed up and I saw Dusty take off running. I realized what had happened.
Somehow, his chain had gotten caught on the front tow hooks of the truck. He was petrified, but he seemed perfectly fine believe it or not. I took him to the vet, they x-rayed him and said there is no damage. I do not understand how the chain snapped and didn't injure his neck! God was watching over my Dusty yesterday. I felt so horrible!
Here's what petsmart says about the particular chain I use and pictures:
The cable is rated at 1700 lbs and the zinc die cast snaps are rated at 550 lbs.
http://www.petsmart.com/images/product/large/in302573.jpg
Kind of hard to see, but here's a GMC like mine. You can kind of see the tow hooks on the front that caught his chain.
http://www.gmc.com/gmcjsp/sierra/images/brand_photo3.jpg
I chained Dusty and Roxy up, and Teddy took off. Well, I jumped in the truck to go chase him. Dusty and Roxy were in front of me. I could see them, so I wasn't worried about running them over. As I was backing away, I heard something drag, and I felt the truck pull. It didn't want to back out. I could see the dogs still. I thought I didn't have it in drive all the way (my mind was fixed on getting Teddy), so I put it in drive again, gassed it, and backed out of the driveway. All of a sudden. I heard a wierd sound, the truck freed up and I saw Dusty take off running. I realized what had happened.
Somehow, his chain had gotten caught on the front tow hooks of the truck. He was petrified, but he seemed perfectly fine believe it or not. I took him to the vet, they x-rayed him and said there is no damage. I do not understand how the chain snapped and didn't injure his neck! God was watching over my Dusty yesterday. I felt so horrible!
Here's what petsmart says about the particular chain I use and pictures:
The cable is rated at 1700 lbs and the zinc die cast snaps are rated at 550 lbs.
http://www.petsmart.com/images/product/large/in302573.jpg
Kind of hard to see, but here's a GMC like mine. You can kind of see the tow hooks on the front that caught his chain.
http://www.gmc.com/gmcjsp/sierra/images/brand_photo3.jpg