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A Merry Christmas For a Helpless Dog Who was Frozen Outside

Associated Press News Wire (ap@telecom-digest.org)
Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:53:30 -0600

Men Rescue Dog Frozen to Railroad Tracks

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) -- He's missing a lot of hair, but a
Siberian husky has a new name and a new life, thanks to a construction
worker and police officer who rescued him from a railroad track
minutes before a train arrived.

Jeremy Majorowicz thought it was a little strange that the dog had
been sitting on the track for an hour-and-a-half in the cold, and
stranger still that he wouldn't accept a bite of muffin.

"I have two dogs myself, so I didn't want to leave the dog if there
was something wrong," Majorowicz said, so he called police.

Officer Tim Strand said the dog was "shivering unmercifully" when he
arrived Monday and would not come to him, so he called animal control
officer Al Heyde, who also couldn't get the dog to budge.

"I lifted his tail and hind quarters, and saw he was literally frozen
to the tracks," Strand said.

Strand pulled hard on the dog's tail and was able to release him, but
the dog lost a lot of hair. "He gave a heck of a whelp," he said.

Just 10 minutes later, a train came down the track.

"If the dog would have seen that train I'm afraid it would have been
the end of the pupster," Strand said.

The dog was taken to the Chippewa County Humane Association, where
workers named him "Ice Train."

Copyright The Associated Press.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And ... happy holidays to all our
readers here as well. Seasons greetings to one and all! PAT]

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