Dog frozen to railroad tracks saved just in time

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – He’s missing some fur, but a Siberian husky has a new name and a new life, thanks to a construction worker and police officer who rescued him from railroad tracks minutes before a train arrived.

Jeremy Majorowicz thought it was a little strange that the dog had been sitting on the track for an hour and a half in the cold, and stranger still that it wouldn’t accept a bite of muffin.

“I have two dogs myself, so I didn’t want to leave the dog if there was something wrong,” Majorowicz said. So he called police.

Officer Tim Strand said the dog was “shivering unmercifully” when he arrived on Monday and would not come to him, so he called animal control officer Al Heyde, who also couldn’t get the dog to budge.

“I lifted his tail and hindquarters and saw he was literally frozen to the tracks,” Strand said.

Strand pulled hard on the dog’s tail and was able to release it, but the dog lost a lot of fur. “He gave a heck of a whelp,” he said.

Ten minutes later, a train came rolling down the tracks.

“If the dog would have seen that train, I’m afraid it would have been the end of the pupster,” Strand said.

The dog was taken to the Chippewa County Humane Association, where workers named him “Ice Train.”