I had a problem like this once... 3 summers ago I had my older yorkie named Jasper he was about 2 1/2 and we were ta my moms house he had beeen there before. Well I put him down on the deck and in a split second he took off running straight for the pool, its like he thought he could run across the water, and in he went. I was 7 1/2 mths pregnant and could not dive in to get him, I was screaming for help my husband ran out and jumped in it was terrible. He was fine thank god but hated water since.
I use do do small dog foster care, and we had a basset hound about 6 mths old, and she always laid on the edge of teh pool she fell in twice and we had to get her out because of her short legs she could'nt swim well.
We had to go away for the weekend for bussiness and I left her with my mil, who is a paramedic and she loved the basset. She3 knew how she was with pools so I knew she'd watch her. The Sunday we returned I got a call from my mil and she was panicked, crying telling me to head to my vets, so I did. Well she had but the basset out to potty and she had been running towards the screened porch and busted right through the screen and noone knew it, when they came out to get her she was floating in the pool, my fil dove in and got her and my mil gave her cpr, we ended up having to drive her 3 hrs down south to a special hospital and she had to stay 3 days in a oxygen chanmber machine. But she recovered and we found her a wonderful home, she was very hyper and crazy LOL, and she went to a young adult home. |