This story reminds me of my mother in law. She let hubby’s beloved best friend out in a blizzard. The little dog was arthritic and very old. M-I-L forgot. The next morning hubby and his dad pried poor doggy up from the sidewalk. :( Hubby was 11 or so.
That is horrible..how could you forget something like that??
It DID remind me of something from when my dog was a puppy. We never leave her outside without checking on her every few minutes. I once let her outside, and was going to the door checking on her...she was just laying down in some snow on the sidewalk looking around the last several times I opened the door to see if she wanted to come in.
I couldn't figure out why she was staying out as it was quite cold...she wasn't barking...just sitting there probably 20' from the front door. I finally decided that she had been out long enough, so I put some boots on and went to get her. Mystery solved: she had managed to sit in one spot long enough that the snow had melted and refrozen...she was partially "frozen" to the sidewalk!
She wasn't terribly stuck, and was fine once we got her up...she certainly appeared to be really confused. To this day, she "rolls" in the snow...but will not so much as "sit" in it. Well, she does "sit" with her little tush hovering about 2" above the ground...she looks like a dork!