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With tears running down my face. would like to tell you what has happen to us in the last 48 hours.
It started Thursday night after dark, when I heard my dogs barking and looked out to see my minis running in circles, and they than would stop and look out to our pond.
Oh no I knew it had to be our fallow doe (Dream Catcher)
We have been so busy with the 13 puppies, and had not taken her out of the area yet, where the pond was starting to freeze.
I ran out with my flash light and seen her circling in the middle of the pond where she has walked out and fell in.
Ran back yelling for my husband to come Dream Catcher was in the pond.
Not thinking straight we hauled out our paddle boat and tried to reach her. the pond is 16 feet deep in the center and the sides are steep and was hard to get the boat in.
He had to take a shovel trying to break the ice to get to her.
Hubby was in the boat and I am trying to push him out he got her in a net and he tried to get her onto the boat, at that time he floated back to shore, so I step in and thought I could help as we got her partway up onto the boat could not hold the weight so over we went, and hubby was under the boat, I kept calling him and nothing the shore looked so far away, I swam to the edge and with no more energy laid chest deep holding on to a branch. I heard my husband yell we have two minutes get out of the water, I said I can't feel my legs and cannot move.. some how he got up past me on the bank, and said pull Mary Pull your self out, my husband not knowing where he got the energy grabbed my arm and pulled me out.
I was exhausted and ready to pass out. I slowly got up and peeled off my two coats that where just so heavy to walk in, hubby and I both lost a boot each and dragged each other to the house, crawled to the tub and started to fill the tub with warm water, our bodies looked like a red lobsters, our breathing was shadow.
After getting warmed took our temp, his was 95 and mine was up to 97. so we called the health line they told us to drink something warm and eat something with sugar.
We did have our family keep calling us every 30 minutes and if things had gotten worse would have went to the hospital.
We knew she did not make it..
We found her the next day under the boat, and we knew how lucky we both where to be alive.
After talking with a neighbor, we went out, just to get away and try to put this behind us, and we had know ideal how we where going to get her and boat out of there, it was out in the middle of the pond.
When we returned for a few hours out we looked as we drove into the driveway, no boat, the boat had sunk and the deer under it.. now how on earth are we going to get them out.
As my husband went closer to check to see if he could see them, here at the side of the barn the deer and boat where laying off shore.
Our neighbors had got together and pulled them out for us and this morning another neighbor came and disposed of our lovely Dream Catcher.
Yes, we are sadden by our loss but have gained such a good feeling of how our neighbors are our friends in time of need without asking where here for us.
God did bless us this past year and looking forward to see what 2012 has to offer us.
Wish you all a Very Happy New Year for 2012
It started Thursday night after dark, when I heard my dogs barking and looked out to see my minis running in circles, and they than would stop and look out to our pond.
Oh no I knew it had to be our fallow doe (Dream Catcher)
We have been so busy with the 13 puppies, and had not taken her out of the area yet, where the pond was starting to freeze.
I ran out with my flash light and seen her circling in the middle of the pond where she has walked out and fell in.
Ran back yelling for my husband to come Dream Catcher was in the pond.
Not thinking straight we hauled out our paddle boat and tried to reach her. the pond is 16 feet deep in the center and the sides are steep and was hard to get the boat in.
He had to take a shovel trying to break the ice to get to her.
Hubby was in the boat and I am trying to push him out he got her in a net and he tried to get her onto the boat, at that time he floated back to shore, so I step in and thought I could help as we got her partway up onto the boat could not hold the weight so over we went, and hubby was under the boat, I kept calling him and nothing the shore looked so far away, I swam to the edge and with no more energy laid chest deep holding on to a branch. I heard my husband yell we have two minutes get out of the water, I said I can't feel my legs and cannot move.. some how he got up past me on the bank, and said pull Mary Pull your self out, my husband not knowing where he got the energy grabbed my arm and pulled me out.
I was exhausted and ready to pass out. I slowly got up and peeled off my two coats that where just so heavy to walk in, hubby and I both lost a boot each and dragged each other to the house, crawled to the tub and started to fill the tub with warm water, our bodies looked like a red lobsters, our breathing was shadow.
After getting warmed took our temp, his was 95 and mine was up to 97. so we called the health line they told us to drink something warm and eat something with sugar.
We did have our family keep calling us every 30 minutes and if things had gotten worse would have went to the hospital.
We knew she did not make it..
We found her the next day under the boat, and we knew how lucky we both where to be alive.
After talking with a neighbor, we went out, just to get away and try to put this behind us, and we had know ideal how we where going to get her and boat out of there, it was out in the middle of the pond.
When we returned for a few hours out we looked as we drove into the driveway, no boat, the boat had sunk and the deer under it.. now how on earth are we going to get them out.
As my husband went closer to check to see if he could see them, here at the side of the barn the deer and boat where laying off shore.
Our neighbors had got together and pulled them out for us and this morning another neighbor came and disposed of our lovely Dream Catcher.
Yes, we are sadden by our loss but have gained such a good feeling of how our neighbors are our friends in time of need without asking where here for us.
God did bless us this past year and looking forward to see what 2012 has to offer us.
Wish you all a Very Happy New Year for 2012
