BROOKFIELD — Dive workforce members rescued a canine Sunday morning that bumped into the Still River Greenway basin whereas chasing a fox, solely to seek out himself stranded. The canine, a 2-year-old rescue named Linus, had no accidents and was returned to its proprietor inside 20 minutes, officers mentioned.
Brookfield resident Lynn Jano mentioned she’s “so grateful” to everybody who was concerned in saving her pup.
“I really want to say thank you to the folks that came out so quickly to help us,” Jano mentioned. “Everyone cared and that really means the most to me — from the dispatcher to the police officer in the office, to the police officer who came out — and to the dive team. Everyone cared and that really means the most.”
Sgt. Robert Pennoyer, workforce commander of the Brookfield Recovery Dive Team, mentioned a lot of the success of the rescue effort was a matter of being within the “right place at the right time.”
“The water was cold. Animals can suffer from hypothermia,” he mentioned, including different components can even play a component within the consequence.
“It depends on a lot of things — did the dog eat? Was the animal well hydrated? Not all dogs can swim and it’s going to also depend on the age of the dog — Is there any arthritis? … It always helps when an animal will cooperate with us,” Pennoyer added.
Chasing a fox
Jano mentioned she began to walk Linus at round 6:30 a.m., on the path throughout from Laurel Hill Road.
“We were walking down and it was quiet. No one was on the trail,” she said. “All of the sudden, he just darted and he was running towards a fox and a fox was running the other way.”
She mentioned she overpassed Linus however waited a bit as a result of, when this has occurred up to now, he often comes again inside a half-hour. When Linus didn’t return, she acquired again in her automobile and drove to the close by police station car parking zone and began to walk down the adjoining path.
“I walked under the bridge and I kept calling him and he finally barked,” she mentioned, including Linus isn’t a barker.
That was when she noticed him.
“I came back onto the main trail and then I saw him across a river,” she mentioned, including that after an hour glided by, she referred to as police.
Pennoyer mentioned dive workforce members had been concerned in a coaching close by, and once they acquired the decision, swung by of their gear.
“We put on our dry suits and we walked across the river with a tether on. We were able to get the dog and thank goodness, the dog didn’t bolt,” he mentioned.
One of the dive workforce detectives, Ben Gerstenmaier, was in a position to scoop Linus up and the canine went with him willingly, Pennoyer mentioned. “It was interesting to see that, because dogs are a little aloof with people they don’t know.”
Jano mentioned Linus “jumped into” Gerstenmaier’s arms.
Jano mentioned Linus is a black mouth cur, a breed which might be bred in Mississippi and Tennessee to hunt every part from squirrels to bears, to raccoons and foxes and bunnies.
