Hey, anybody out there ever about drown, i.e. inhale more water that you got airspace

[postbeetle]

Yepper Bubba, that's what I did; I slizarded...............

Anyhow, let my boys out for a run about 4 0'clock yesterday before feeding. They do exactly that run, run everything that walks crawls or flies, my guineas, cats, deer, neighbors cows, eagles flying overhead, crows etc. They usually gone about a half hour and come back when I blow my dog whistle. Well this time they headed North and I didn't pay much attention, UNTIL I heard ice crack. (ever been around ice-out and hear ice break up?) I'm am deefer than a post, but that's what I heard. Cursing I knew what happened sure as the sun's gonna come up..them boys went through the ice on the back pond. I knew for sure when I could hear them begin to bawl............

Now I am 67 years old, been smoking since before I been born so I got less lung capacity than needed to blow up a condom but I started running, just a 300 yard run and puffing before I got a 100' feet. I crest the hill looking over the pond (1st pic) and sure enough there they are, two boys going around in a hole and can't get out. I suck in some air and keep running. I approached the pond and between trying to get some air and think and I come to the realization if I'm not gonna stand there like a dufuss and watch the boys drown I'd have to go get them across 8' of ice, a small island I had pushed up with my skid-steer and another 25' of ice to their hole. I had no pole, or hook, or rope or boat, or inner-tube or sled or anybody within a mile of me to help, so........................

like a moron I start out, talking to them like a Dad talks to their kids to keep 'em calm. Across the first ice, across the little muddy island and finally to the last stretch. This was the make or breqk point, either I go and drown with them or I get them out. I went down on my belly and slizarded out like a garter snake crossing a creek over that ice...............

The boys had broken a semi-circle out of the rotten ice and couldn't pull themselves up on the solid ice, kept slipping back in. The ice I am on is dipping and sloshing pond water up on it's surface and I knew I was in trouble. Crawling as close as I could on my belly I could reach out and just grab Amos by the collar, gave a pull and he popped out the water like a calf out a 3rd calf cow. I holler him to shore and reach out for Zekkie who has by now positioned himself where Amos was. I get his collar and pull him out like Amos. Whew I'm thinking, thanking every God on the books at that stage and then somethings licking my left ear. Amos came back out to help and he's licking my left ear. Now I got real trouble, and I'll tell ya about that after I download some pictures for ya............

Well I'll be dipped in stink-bait, spread on a cracker and served to Michel Obama that up-load picture thingy is on the fritz. What am I doing wrong folks. I musta drowned yesterday and don't know it yet.

[BUDMEISER01]

Hey, anybody out there ever about drown, i.e. inhale more water that you got airspace to oxygenate your red corpuscles?.................

and if you've lived through something like that does water scare ya? Scares me wit-less. I've done it twice, down twice and heading for the magic third time when I got pulled out by some good folks.

Been there, done that twice Beetle and you are right, it will scare you!!!!

[postbeetle]

Now, I was in real trouble. I had both dogs up on the ice but the problem was, let's see here...1 dog equal 100 lbs, 2 dogs equal 200 lbs, plus with the heavy winter coats on these dogs when they came out the water they had gained over 5 lbs of sucked up water. Then they had me at my fat 137 lbs, plus they were bouncing around trying to lick me. So where 200 lbs of dog had gone through the ice shoulder to shoulder we now gots about 337 lbs plus of weight on just a little thicker ice. And then.................

I hear this funny cracking sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Knowing I was a goner I started shuffling backward like a garter snake going across a crick backwards, hollering the dogs to shore. I make it to the small island and the ice goes. I go into two feet of water, filling my chore boots. I slam onto the little muddy island on my hands and knees and jump the last 8 feet to solid shore. (actually Icould only jump about three feet 'cause my boots were full of water). I look around and those damb dogs are rolling in the grass drying off like nothin' happened. I'm freezing 'cause that's what the temp is a nice solid 33* and head for the house and a nice hot shower. I didn't run though.

Had a hard time sleeping that night. Kept thinking about sleeping with the fishes and I ain't even Italian.

Got that picture thing-a-ma-jiggy figured out

1st pic...My view of the ponds and the drowning dogs in that hole in the lower right of the pond.

2nd pic.......The route I had to take to get 'em out. Across ice, across the little island and finally out the the hole they were slurping around in.

3rd pic. The boys this morning alive well and still stupid.

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PB, them are some nice looking dogs,,,

[BIG GEORGE]

Over 200 pounds of dog wantin to thank you and all they were doin was screwin ya. LOL! All that weight in one spot was like our leader standin there. LOL!

[catfish_hunter01]

Glad you and the pooches are ok. I hit my head on the side of a concrete waterslide in Branson Mo one time and almost got knocked out. It happened near the bottom of the slide and when I went in the landing pool I went under for a short and inhaled some water.

Another time when I was a kid I went to a pool we used to have here in a park called Peony Park. It was a huge pool with a sloped bottom and sandy beaches. My brother and some neighbor kids talked me into going out to one of the piers that was in 6-8 ft of water. So I clung to a neighbor kid since he had me convinced he could swim good enough to get me out there but on the way he realized he made a dumb ass promise he couldn't keep. I was kicking and screaming and drowning when an off duty life guard came over with an air mattress and saved me and brought me to shore. That left me traumatized for a very long time. I almost didn't pass the swimming test in high school because of it which meant that I wouldn't graduate high schrool. I have a reverential fear of water still to this day and it's why I won't get in a boat without a life jacket.

[jdstraka]

Damb PB that was a close one for sure. Ya done a Good job gettin the dogs out,Your the MAN !!!!

Now here's what ya got to to in the future before you find yourself in that per-dick-a-ment again. You know that Full Texas Fifth of Crown ya carry all the time strapped to your body for special occasions when you might get lucky and go Muff Diving ?? Damnit drinks some of it so's it not full and then when ya falls in the ice you got's an emergency flotation device that will float your Skinny little 137 pound Bohunk Arse. Now another thing you can do also because them German dogs ain't the sharpest tacks til they get's bout 5yrs is do like them Saint Bernard doggers do and strap a mini Keg (Empty of corse after ya drank all the beer) and strap them empty kegs round them dogs necks and they will have an emergency flotation device also. Glad I could help. Your Brother Bohunk on this end of the flyover state (Iowa) J.D.

[fubar4life2010]

Good to see you and the dogs are safe. Its funny how a normally sane, rationally thinking individual will put his life on the line for a dog. They do the same for us, so I guess it fits.

First off Skunko,are we talkin about the same person,normal,PB!HUH!
I tell you what,I was waiting for the part where he took off his shirt,tore it into strips,and tied it to his jeans to make a rope,threw it out there and the dogs bit down and he pulled them to safety!Would of made a movie!..ISYN..

No really King,glad you and the boys are ok!

[poisonpits]

double up on the glad your ok post.would have been a great loss if ya hadnt made it.

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[777]

Postmortem, I guess this means I won't be seeing you on next years episodes of mud cats LOL! You should have dove on down and caught some supper since ya was already a$$hole deep in the fishing hole.
Al BS aside, working on adrenaline and instinct you done a hell of a job saving those dogs and yourself.