Your Dog Stuck in a Tree?

So you've heard of the fire department getting cats out of trees right?  Well here's a good one for you.

The boys are playing in the back yard with the neighbor boy Cam.  They are playing in the trees and playing with Ammon too.  They decide to take his dog toy and put it high on a branch to make him jump up and grab it.  No problem, he's game for a little challenge.  He can usually grab something from about 7ft off the ground. Well this particular time he missed and came down with his paw getting caught in a branch.  Fortunately it was near enough to the ground that he could stand on the other three.  He pulls and pulls only to to make it tighter and worse.  So Ammon is scared and it surely hurts a bit so he starts howling.  Mind you this is a 165lb dog thats howling very lowd.  So Calvin and Oliver start crying and whaling that "Ammon is going to die!"  Christi is trying to help Ammon and he bites her in the process as he continues to escalate in his freaking  out. (no worries he didn't break the skin, nothing serious)

So Christi sends Cam home to get his Dad, she calls me, then Scott, then Tanya, then me again, then Scott again.  No answers. She is freaking out.  The neighbor dad, John, isn't home but the older sister Ali runs over.  Christi calls 911.  They redirect her once before she gets told that they can't help.  Christi says frantically,"What, you can rescue cats out of trees but you won't come for my dog?"  The lady on the other end tells her to take a deep breath.  Christi hangs up on her.  

Christi then sent Ali to the other neighbors house (Skip) for help.  

Meanwhile.....

Oliver is a very clever young man.  He gets busy during the chaos with his own solution.  He goes into the garage, opens up my chainsaw case and pulls it out.  He comes outside with the chainsaw and says, "Here mom, you can use this."

[Side note: She did get me on the phone after the multiple attempts.  I was traveling on the freeway heading home.  I was speeding home now fearing that Ammon was hanging from 6ft from one paw needing me to lift him up.  I was also adding the vet bills up in my head, (they weren't cheap)]

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Just then Skip shows up and asks what he can do to help.  He pulls hard and manages to spread the gap between branches just as Ammon lifts up and he is free. 

Seemingly simultaneously, Scott shows up, John the neighbor arrives and the fire department pulls up in front of the house.  All just as Ammon had been freed.

They were incredibly nice and came through the house to see the now infamous dog.

In the end, Ammon is fine.  Upon request from the boys, Christi bandaged his leg (shown below).  They also elevated it on a pillow and draped a blanket over him.  Finally I arrive home to see him as I just described.  He hopped right up to his feet to welcome me and as if to let me know that he had just been through one heck of an ordeal.