Originally posted by ChriSVT:
Originally posted by gwellington:

Usually, we'd take a friend's rather large dog along and send him out first to check things out. As to the truck thing, I would imagine the state EPA would also want to talk to the owners about the small matter of cleaning up ten to twenty gallons of fuel, and a few quarts of oil, that are now polluting the water.



Speaking of the EPA, I wonder what PETA or the SPCA would say about you guys sending a large dog out onto the ice to see if he falls in!



Yes, well, I was wondering who'd bring that up. Uh, we were young and didn't know any better? Actually, old Duke knew the ice better than we did--there were times he flatly refused to go out, and he was too big to push...and I don't ever recall him breaking through, though, as I said, I did once (when, of course, Duke wasn't with us).