Mojo

Dog survives plunge into frozen pond, reunited with lost owner
Fox59.com
January 7, 2010


INDIANAPOLIS - No one would blame Shannon Burkett if she had given up hope she'd ever get reunited with her lost dog Mojo. The little dog is more than lucky. In fact, his survival story defies belief.

His name is Mojo and he's resting at home after having beaten the odds by not only surviving a life-threatening scare, but by being reunited with his relieved owner.

A passerby saw Mojo struggling to stay a float in a nearly frozen pond at the Quail Creek subdivision in Lawrence. Somehow, the dog had stayed alive in near zero degree temperatures long enough for firefighters to pull him out and put him on oxygen. He was transported by ambulance to a nearby animal hospital.

"We could not get his temperature to register on the thermometer for an hour and a half and we'd already started the warm-up process," said Randall Grosser of the Post Pet Hospital

But Mojo's luck didn't end there. A friend of Shannon's saw the rescue on Fox59 and called her. Mojo had wandered away from Shannon's home more than a month ago and hadn't been seen since.

"I was with a friend who's very familiar with Mojo and he said, 'it's him,'" said Burkett.

Shannon's faint hopes came true. His vet says Mojo will recover from pneumonia back at home. Something his owner could have never imagined.

"My gosh, they pulled him out of the water for 30 minutes. I was so upset. I just want to thank the firefighters, the rescue team that did that for him," said Burkett.

Shannon also says she hopes everyone remembers Mojo the next time they see a stray.

"Just because they see a dog walking and it's a stray and they think somebody doesn't care about them, that's not true. Nine times out of ten there's a story behind it," she added.

His vet also says Mojo must have been taken care of by someone who found him after he wandered from home.

Source: http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-one-lucky-dog-010709,0,1363436.story