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Teacher Terry said:
I’m really sorry, Frank. I totally understand trying to rescue your dog. Besides my kids, my dogs are the most important thing in my life.
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Yeah, he wouldn't have paused to even think about it. They've been buddies for over 14 years, and it's just been the 2 of them for the past 3. To be honest, I hope K'mere is gone, too. Then, if there's an afterlife, they still have each other. That dog wouldn't know what to do without his dad.
 
Murrmurr said:
Grant's body was found at about 9:00 last night. The neighbor with the boat took it out for a second go-around on the pond near their mobile home park. He spotted Grant sort of draped over a thick clump of branches and debris not very far out from the shore. No sign of his dog, yet.

The neighbor said he doesn't think Grant drowned because his face was not in the water and "he didn't look like a drowned person." People are saying he probably jumped in after the dog, got exhausted, then had trouble breathing and maybe had a heart attack while he hung onto those branches. The boat guy told police that's what he thinks happened, and everybody's running with it.

The dog is a 14 or 15 yr-old border collie, and he's chipped, so Grant's son said that if someone found him and took him to a vet clinic, police would have been notified. Not sure about that. I think they would've just tried calling my brother.

Police said the coroner will do an autopsy on Monday morning and if the cause of death wasn't drowning, then rescue divers might go in and look for the dog...for confirmation, I guess. (And I don't know why they call that body of water a pond. It's a small lake, and it's really deep in some spots.)

If the dog fell in, Grant would have gone after him, no question. The dog was one of 2 that Grant owned that were from the same litter, and they looked identical, so he named them K'mere and C'mon. C'mon died about 3 years ago, and Grant was devastated. He'd lost his chow, Misha, only months earlier. She was pretty old, too, and he bought all of them when they were just puppies. So, yeah, Grant definitely would have dived in after K'mere if he fell in...the dog was old and stiff and didn't have a lot of energy. Same could be said about Grant, though.

I'm pretty torn up. Grant was my favorite brother. He was a super intelligent guy and I really looked up to him. The one bright spot is that he loved hanging out at that place, fishing, boating, taking his dogs on the trails all around it. He used to camp there quite a lot when the weather was decent...and he was healthier.
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Sorry about the loss of your brother, @Murrmurr! It's not easy losing a beloved family member. May he Rest In Peace.
 
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