Wow, that must have sucked. I"m glad that you and your doggy is okay. My parents had a dog years ago that did that too and it was very scary. Specially when that dog knew how to find the highway...that was scary. Unfortunately we were moving and my parents had to give her away. And the stupid new owners wouldn't listen to them and let her loose and she got killed by a transport truck I was really young then.

Anyways I'm glad you are both okay and I hope that you can fix the problem somehow.