How cold was it where you are? The colder it gets, the more excited our dog is.
Today she slipped on some unsupported ice slabs (the creek had frozen at flood, and then the water dropped down again.)
I let her self-rescue. Five reasons why you let a dog self-rescue from the ice: She’s lighter than you. She has four feet. Her feet have claws. She has fur. She’ll come back and you won’t.
She wasn’t in danger because the water wasn’t a foot deep, but she sure was funny. And she wouldn’t cross the creek with me after that for love or treats.
Today we got up to 18 degrees but its been as low as -20.
I live on a lake which is frozen but I have my dogs pretty well trained to stay off the ice. They’ll walk down to the shore with me but stop as I walk out on the lake.