Neighbor saves dog from drowning in icy lake
Published: January 24, 2007
A 100-pound Dalmatian named Mr. Spot owes his life to a neighbor who waded through icy water to rescue the dog.
Mary Chandler, the dog’s owner, said she knew something was wrong when she couldn’t find Mr. Spot Monday night and then heard him barking.
Her other dog pointed the way and she went to the edge of Lake Seneca where she lives with her two dogs.
“He was holding onto the ice with his front paws and his head on the ice,” she said. “You could see poor Spotty shivering, it was horrible.”
Mr. Spot was about 30 feet from the shore. Half of his body was underwater.
“The dog was looking at me like, ‘Please help me,’” she said. “He had that puppy-dog face.”
Chandler celled neighbor Jim Hogan who ran down to help.
“He was in too deep to stand up,” Hogan said. “He had a pair of sad eyes.”
They estimated that Mr. Spot had been in the water for at least 45 minutes and wouldn’t last much longer.
First, they were going to use a paddleboat to reach the dog, but it was filled with ice. Then they found a canoe, but there was no paddle.
Hogan then walked out onto the ice, dragging the canoe behind him.
But the ice was not thick enough and Hogan fell through about halfway out, standing up in water up to his waist. “Man, oh man was that water cold,” he said.
Hogan began breaking through the ice with his fists until he reached Mr. Spot.
“I grabbed hold of his collar and came back through the path I broke,” he said. Mr. Spot and Hogan are fine now.
“It was an adventure,” he said with a laugh.
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