Sergeant Rescues Dog From Frozen Pond in Kankakee County, Illinois

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A sergeant from the Kankakee County sheriff’s office rescued a dog from a frozen pond in Cabery, a village located in Kankakee County, Illinois, on Monday, January 2.

Footage posted to the sheriff’s office Facebook page shows Sergeant R. Belcher working with residents to rescue the dog.

According to local news reports, the dog, identified as a Pitbull named Zeus, was reunited with his owners and is doing well. Credit: Kankakee County Sheriff’s Office via Storyful

Video Transcript

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: [INAUDIBLE] 21.

- 21.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: I'm on scene.

- Yeah, go ahead.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Go ahead.

- I'm going to be coming [INAUDIBLE].

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: No. Dang it.

You don't know anyone who has like a canoe, do you?

- [INAUDIBLE]

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: They're looking?

- I'm going to go grab a boat. But the one guy I was talking to says the dog might [INAUDIBLE] bite.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: Might [INAUDIBLE].

- Yeah, [INAUDIBLE] a little dog over here.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: OK.

- But I'll grab a boat and see [INAUDIBLE].

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: All right.

Well, he said he might bite. I'll just be careful.

- I don't think he bites. Pull this [INAUDIBLE].

- [INAUDIBLE] 1257, East Chestnut.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: Here.

- [INAUDIBLE] 21 information.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: Go ahead.

- [INAUDIBLE] The last couple of days, we've been receiving a call from a [? Candace ?] Linton wanting us to call [INAUDIBLE] because she doesn't have the money to get her vehicle fixed and she's trying to pick it up. She's been advised three days in a row that she needs to call [INAUDIBLE] when they're open. She was [INAUDIBLE].

- No, no, no, no, no, no. Come on, honey. Zeus, go get it. Get it. Get the toy. Yeah, get it. Get it, get it, get it. Oh.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: I want you hold this [INAUDIBLE].

- [INAUDIBLE]

- [INAUDIBLE]

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: Do you have a canoe? Oh, never mind.

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Go ahead.

- [INAUDIBLE] for the DC [INAUDIBLE]

- [INAUDIBLE]

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Hang on, buddy.

- [INAUDIBLE] 21

- 10-4.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: I got this rope. We can--

- --yank it around his neck.

- I'm fine.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: This might help pull you back or--

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Can you grab that [INAUDIBLE]?

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: I got a leash I'll grab.

- Alan, the ice is [INAUDIBLE]. Careful.

- I got you, Alan. I'm pulling you in.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: That might come off it.

- Come here, [INAUDIBLE].

- Come here, honey.

- You don't need to know [INAUDIBLE]--

- You got a good workout today, didn't you? There you go. That feel better?

- He doesn't even have like regular tags on him.

- Thinking about biting somebody? Come on. You want to go up there?

- Come here.

- Come on.

- Come on, puppy. Come on. Come on. I know, honey.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: Let me go see if I got a leash here. [INAUDIBLE] 21.

- 21.

SERGEANT R. BELCHER: We've got the dog out.

- 10-4.

- I don't even know what his last name is. Jeff--

- I don't know his name either.