Grandma's House

A construction crew in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin came to the rescue of a male husky with a really sticky problem.

Majorowicz spotted the gray and white dog sitting on the tracks Monday after his construction crew decided to call it a day because of the frigid temperatures. They headed into a restaurant for something to eat and when they came out an hour and a-half later, the dog was sitting in the same spot.

He approached the dog and offered it a bit of a muffin, but the animal wouldn't bite.

When the police arrived, they couldn't get the dog to come to them, either. They did notice that the dog was shivering continuously, so they called animal control officers to get involved.

Heyde hooked the dog around the neck with a catch pole in an attempt to capture the dog, but it would not budge.

"I lifted his tail and hind quarters, and saw he was literally frozen to the tracks," Strand said. "He was pretty hunkered down."

Strand pulled hard on the dog's tail, and was able to release him, but he said the dog lost a lot of hair in the process.

"He gave a heck of a whelp," he said.

Well, duh! If your balls were frozen to a railroad track and someone pulled you free, you'd scream your bloody head off, right? But it was for the best, all told. Just 10 minutes after they freed the dog, a freight train came through the area. The dog is doing fine now, and has been named "Ice Train".