Dog survives icy dip
Dogs may be man's best friend, but three humans were one dog's truest friends last week. The three neighbors placed ladders on the ice for their safety so they could crawl across the pond, and Christensen brought out his tree-trimming device that has a rope loop on it. After some failed attempts, they got the Siberian husky's neck... Neighbors Janice O'Neil, John Knape and Donald Christensen have a pond behind their Hillsborough neighborhood residences near 132nd Street and West Maple Road. O'Neil headed out to the pond Wednesday evening to feed the geese, a daily ritual after her shift as a nurse-practitioner in the intensive cardiac care unit at the Nebraska Medical Center. The pond is frozen over except for around its aerator, where there's some open water. When we saw her floating in the water, just her head was there and her sad, sad eyes," she said. Again some failed tries to pull the dog out of the water, but then the three humans prevailed. Only the dog's head showed in the small circle of open water.
Omaha World-Herald on 01.01.70 | File Under Aerator | Comments