Last night I came back to the cottage as usual and let Aubrey outside. I was busy doing whatever and after a little while I thought to go outside and check on her, I hadn't heard her or seen her for maybe 15 minutes and she wasn't coming when I called her. I was shocked to see her body sticking out from under the fence in her dog run, seems my silly little dog was chasing some critter and tried to fit through a drainage hole embedded in cement. Of course I didn't know that at the time and I thought I could just pull her free. I tried, the neighbor tried and finally I decided it was time to call 911. The nice policeman tried and then he called the fire department. I was so afraid they were going to break her neck or she was going to suffocate! She was very brave. Me, not so much. More than an hour and 4 professionals later, they finally freed her, but I was shocked again to see a filthy, rusty tin can lodged tightly around her neck. Thankfully it had not cut her, although I'm sure her neck will be sore for a while. It was exactly like one of those stories you see on the news, happy ending and all. Today I stayed home from work, bathed her (again) and fixed the fence, putting up sheet metal over that hole and another one I found. At the time I felt a little strange calling 911 but both the police and fire departments were very concerned and took it seriously.

This is the hole her head was stuck in, after a fence board was removed and some of the concrete was chipped away, it's about 4 inches across.








This is the rusty old coffee can that someone was using as a drainage pipe, the reason she couldn't get her head back out of the hole.









Here you can see where the can was wedged around her neck, a fireman cut it off with tin snips.










She was filthy from all the goop they put on her to try to help her get free, after two baths the back of her head is still greasy.