The Allers did n’t make out Gunner was escape until they saw the picture .

It ’s one thing to learn that your missing dog has been ( gratefully ) returned , but it must be especially weird to find out that your dog is miss via a Facebook post that also shows the daring , icy deliverance .

That ’s what happened to the Aller kinfolk in Celina , Ohio , over the weekend . Parents Jeremy and Lisa Aller were out of town , so family penis were checking in on 1 - twelvemonth - oldLabrador retrieverGunner , WDTN report . At some detail Saturday , the young domestic dog slip out through an open doorway , an escape unknown to his caretakers .

Then the Allers saw the video on Facebook .

" We were like , ' Oh that ’s Gunner , ' " Lisa Aller told the tidings station . " I was nervous for the hombre , too , walk on the ice . And I just was mortified , I was shocked . I was scared . It was terrible . "

A man named Kevin Klosterman was Gunner ’s savior . The dog had broken through the ice of Grand Lake and could n’t get out . Klosterman , who had been drive photos nearby , arrived after his brother holler him , WDTN write . He eff he only had a thing of minute before the cold piss would really become life-threatening for the Canis familiaris .

So he throw on a lifespan jacket crown and walked onto the deoxyephedrine , drag on a canoe with him . He got into the canoe when he drive to Gunner and hoisted the dog out of the water before coaxing him into the small watercraft . As Klosterman dragged the canoe back , Gunner hopped back out onto the ice for a few seconds before his pal Kevin pay off him back into the canoe . ( find out your lesson , my guy ! )

Klosterman used one bridge player to keep Gunner in the boat as they arrived back at shoring , just as an ambulance come .

Not only a family companion , Gunner is also thetherapy dogof Lisa Aller ’s Logos , making an already - especial rescue even more meaningful .

" He did n’t just salve the heel , he save my son also , " Lisa sound out .

" If he ’s take heed , I just want to say give thanks you very much and I say that from the bottom of my heart , " Ayden Aller suppose in a substance to Klosterman . " If I would ’ve drop off Gunner , I do n’t do it what I would ’ve done . "