Scary Dog Moments ...

[Louie and me]

Has to be when a bunch of dogs were playing in the bush beside a lake in the park. All the dogs except one came out of the bushes - the one of course was Louie who had gone through the ice! There he was swimming round in little circles and whimpering. One of the other dog people went to get him and also fell through the ice. In the end no-one was the worse for wear except me. I was traumatized for days.

[Bonny]

Bob Barker years ago jumped into the creek when I threw a stick in. He was an Australian Shepherd with a thick coat of hair. He got the stick but his thick coat was pulling him down in the water as he was paddling along then he tried to get up the steppe bank. I ended up sliding down the bank into the water to pull him out of the water & push him up the bank. The poor old boy was exhausted from his ordeal.

[Karen]

That must have been so scary! A family I know had a Sheltie (again, very thick coat) who decided to take a running leap off the dock one day, but it was a "stream" that actually emptied into the ocean, and was sternly affected by currents, and so they had a heck of a time rescuing her!

[snakemama]

Definitely the time Jasper flew out of the window of my car while I was driving around a curve. Scariest moment of my LIFE! He is now securely seat-belted in every time we go anywhere.

[Casper]

Sala, my mom's Lhasa, is the master of scaring us humans to death. It all relates to her exceptional ability to escape. Thankfully she has not gotten hurt, but there have been some close calls! Another thing she used to do was bring in cicadas from outside at night and release them in the house. It probably doesn't sounds too bad to most of you guys, but cicadas scare the daylights out of me. No clue why, because all other bugs/insects/etc are fine.... but oh my gosh... I think that dog was nearly the death of me.

[Misty_Pearl]

When pearl was little she went running up to a pond and jumped right in. now i can't swim and french bulldogs don't swim well. luckily she got right back out and does not run into water anymore.

Dixie somehow got out of our fenced yard and we spent a sleeplesd week before we found that little pug about 5 Miles away. we still think someone stole her and she somehow got away from them cause she stayed in the area we found her for the whole week.

[pomtzu]

The very worst was the night Myndi vanished! She was only about 4 at the time, and absolutely HATED a friend (adult) of my son's. Have no idea why, since Sparky loved him! Said friend was visiting one afternoon, and my son let Myndi outside - I was still at work. I got home and went looking for her, and she had vanished. Practically tore the house apart looking for her, also the very cluttered old shed outside, the woods surrounding the house, all up and down the road.....searched till well after dark, but she was gone. Son made posters to put up the next day, and I finally went to bed and cried myself to sleep. The next morning there was a knock on my bedroom door, and there was my son - holding Myndi. I laughed, I cried, I screamed................"where did you find her" I said. He heard a noise at the back door and went to see what it was, and there was Myndi leaping up at the door handle and trying to open the door. We came to the conclusion that she had hidden way in the back corner of the shed, and it was so cluttered and dark, that we hadn't seen her little black self in there. There was a hole at the very bottom of the door - just big enough for her to squeeze thru, and that's what she must have done when she was certain that the much hated Tom had left. The 2nd scariest was the day she fainted because her blood count got so low from the yet undetected gastro bleed. I thought she had fallen over dead!

Sparky's scariest was the first time he fainted and fell off the bed - this was when his CHF was nearing it's peak. He had more after that first one, but at least then I knew what was causing it.

Wolfy hasn't given me any scary moments - YET!!!! Hoping that there won't be any, since I'm getting way too old to cope with these scary events!!!!!