fretlessman71
02-04-2004, 01:43 PM
Large Guinness, Not Warm
Guinness the golden retriever has had a rough couple of weeks.
Around 10 p.m. on Jan. 14, Guinness popped out of his owners' Hillsdale, Ont., home to use the great outdoors, reports the Toronto Star.
The 8-year-old dog got hit by a car, which broke his pelvis and a rear paw and put a 10-inch gash across his abdomen.
"It was extremely cold outside, but he didn't come back in," said Terry Coward, who along with his wife Eileen owns Guinness.
The Cowards put up missing-dog signs and called animal shelters, but over the next several days, as temperatures plummeted to 10 below zero and snowstorms moved in, they began to give up hope.
On Jan. 25, a neighbor called to say something was moving in a snowdrift across the provincial highway.
It was Guinness, just barely hanging on. Terry Coward carried him to Barbara Ann Chidiac, the village's veterinarian.
The cut on Guinness' belly was so badly frostbitten that the skin had peeled away from the muscles, Chidiac said, but the dog's excess body fat may have helped to insulate him in the snow.
"His survival defies any explanation," Chidiac told the Star. "I have never seen anything like it before. It's miraculous."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110369,00.html
Guinness the golden retriever has had a rough couple of weeks.
Around 10 p.m. on Jan. 14, Guinness popped out of his owners' Hillsdale, Ont., home to use the great outdoors, reports the Toronto Star.
The 8-year-old dog got hit by a car, which broke his pelvis and a rear paw and put a 10-inch gash across his abdomen.
"It was extremely cold outside, but he didn't come back in," said Terry Coward, who along with his wife Eileen owns Guinness.
The Cowards put up missing-dog signs and called animal shelters, but over the next several days, as temperatures plummeted to 10 below zero and snowstorms moved in, they began to give up hope.
On Jan. 25, a neighbor called to say something was moving in a snowdrift across the provincial highway.
It was Guinness, just barely hanging on. Terry Coward carried him to Barbara Ann Chidiac, the village's veterinarian.
The cut on Guinness' belly was so badly frostbitten that the skin had peeled away from the muscles, Chidiac said, but the dog's excess body fat may have helped to insulate him in the snow.
"His survival defies any explanation," Chidiac told the Star. "I have never seen anything like it before. It's miraculous."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110369,00.html