Posted on 04/11/2016 12:54:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The McInnes family of Eagle Mountain, Utah has reason to celebrate this weekend after a very scary situation involving their dog.
Toby, a 1-year-old English Sheepdog poodle, leapt off a cliff at Gooseberry Mesa in Washington County Thursday afternoon and fell roughly 300 feet.
“The boys were right there with me; they saw him jump,” said Ben McInnes, Toby’s owner.
He thinks Toby may have seen something during their trail ride, prompting him to leap off the cliff.
“For a split second you hope that he landed on something, but I knew there was nothing over there,” Ben McInnes said. “It was awful. You could hear him sliding and bouncing and yelping.”
The McInnes family did the only thing they could think of and called search and rescue.
“When those things happen, we try and help them out. It’s not something we normally do, just going to rescue a dog, but it’s just the complication of: If we don’t, who else is going to try and get down to him?” said Deputy Darrell Cashin, with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
Cashin said rescuers worried any family members or bystanders who tried to reach Toby could be hurt in the process, and they wanted to prevent that.
“It was just the right thing to do,” Cashin said.
It’s estimated Toby fell 150 vertical feet, and then tumbled another 150 feet down the mountain. Mike Thomas was the first responder to reach the dog, and then carried the 75-pound animal up a very steep incline.
I have never before heard of an English Sheepdog Poodle, but I’m agonna go all out and surmise it is not one of the smarter breeds.
Doggie ping...
Probably part of the current “-Doodle” fad.
Labradoodle, Goldendoodle and oh, the horror, even Doberdoodles.
Big ticket mutts.
Glad the poor thing lived.
Maybe they’ll buy him a leash, now.
“... I’m gonna go all out and surmise it is not one of the smarter breeds”.
I think THIS breed must be suicidal. From the article, it sounds like the dog just had enough of his family and took a leap.
For years, I wanted an English Sheepdog, 'til I had an occasion to be around "King Arthur". One of the dumbest breeds in dogdom; sweet, but not bright.
I saw a dog jump out of a p/up truck and hit the pavement face first. There was a dog beside the road barking and fortunately for the jumper, the truck wasn’t driving very fast, maybe 25 mph.
Hope he was not seriously injured- poor thing. Wonder why he did it.
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