Just thought I would put a picture of one of my own dogs... I took Raven to a flyball class LOL. I think she enjoyed it. 
This is Raven as a puppy
A Sandy Lake dog is Mr. December on the Toronto Humane Society's 2009 Calendar!!!!
Baron and his two brothers were adopted about 3 years ago. This is what he looked like as a puppy, Baron's on the left...
Where we are located...
Check this out...a Sandy Lake Rescue dog saves his owners life!
Pet pulls woman from icy water
Michael Purvis
Local News - Audrey Crack counts herself lucky to be alive.
The Sault Ste. Marie woman, who found herself scrambling through the woods, soaked to the skin after plunging into the freezing waters of Fort Creek on Wednesday, says she would have perished if not for her dog and a pair of corrections officers who carried her to safety.
Crack, 55, said she was taking her two huskies for their first winter walk in the Fort Creek Conservation Area early that afternoon when she came upon a snowshoe trail.
Crack said the trail looked safe, but when she followed her dogs through a depression her weight sent her through a thin layer of ice.
“I didn’t even have time to fall back or jump; I went through right up to my chest,” Crack recalled.
She struggled unsuccessfully for several minutes to free herself from the steep sides of the creek, then eventually called her largest dog, Skye, to her side.
“He came over to the edge, but I couldn’t reach him, so I threw his leash around him and he pulled me out,” said Crack.
The retired legal secretary then made her way along the trail wearing only a pair of mittens on her feet.
She had shed her heavy, waterlogged boots and been unable to get them back on because they had frozen stiff almost instantly.
Chilled by temperatures that hovered around -14C and struggling to find a trail that would lead her to her car, Crack eventually ran into a couple, both of them corrections officers.
“She walked over 15 minutes, ice cold with no boots on trying to get out (of the trails), before we found her,” said the female corrections officer, who asked that she and her fiancee not be named so as not to reveal where they live.
The woman said her fiancee carried Crack to her car on his back and the couple drove the shivering woman to their nearby home where an ambulance met them.
Crack, described as largely unresponsive at that point, said she remembers little of what happened after she was carried to her car, but is grateful to her rescuers.
“If those people hadn’t come on that trail at the right time I know I wouldn’t have made it back; I was literally in bare feet running through the snow,” said Crack.
She is also thankful to Skye, a one-year-old husky she took in last year in hopes of learning to use a dog sled.
“If I hadn’t had my dogs there I don’t think I would have gotten out of the water,” said Crack.
The woman who found Crack said she and her fiancee retraced the trail to the spot where Crack fell in and were surprised at how far she had travelled with only mittens on her feet. They were also shocked to find the depth of the water would have been enough to submerge Crack up to her neck.
“It looked so innocent, you wouldn’t think it was that deep,” said the woman.
Crack, who spent several hours in hospital after the accident, said she would like to see signs posted on the Fort Creek trails to warn people of water danger during the winter.
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