To add insult to injury, right after reading this tread, my family and I walked down to the pond to stretch legs before watching the Superbowl. My son ran down to the pond ahead of us with the dog, and ran right out onto the part where I have told him a million times not to go! Right where the overflow water is, which is perpetually thin.
He is very lucky he is small, and the dog isn't that heavy either. It crackled a little but that was it. However it was close to shore, and the worst that may have happened is he would have learned a powerful lesson. God he is a stubborn mule, never listens and has to learn things himself. Hopefully my panic got through to him.
