TEXAS \u2014 A 911 dispatcher received an urgent call about a barking dog trapped in a sewer in The Woodlands \u2014 a suburb of Houston. Fire officials arrived to discover something else making the noise.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a dog in the drain,\u201d said Sheila Remmert, who reported the sounds outside her home on Gallant Oak Place, where she and her husband Glen reside. \u201cMy husband came out, then I came out, and you can hear him barking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sheila says they alerted the neighbor next door.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had his sprinklers on. We thought the dog was gonna drown, so Glen tells him to turn his sprinklers off. We thought we\u2019d throw treats in there.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the firemen, the noise came from a green tree frog.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not believe them,\u201d Sheila chuckled.<\/p>\n
The Woodlands Fire Chief Palmer Buck said his department receives lots of calls regarding frogs that sound like dogs barking in the drainage system. He says it happens mostly during June and July \u2014 also known as mating season for the frogs that thrive in hot and rainy weather.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey sound much bigger than they are,\u201d said Buck, showing photos of the frog he pulled up on his cell phone.<\/p>\n
The Woodlands Fire Department posted a Facebook video of a fireman checking to make sure it wasn\u2019t a dog by barking at the sewer. The frog returned the favor by “barking” back.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur experience has been dogs will whine or whimper. They\u2019re not gonna have the same type of bark without any kind of excitement or whatnot,\u201d Buck said.<\/p>\n
Sheila says she\u2019s still thankful for the emergency response.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were fabulous, I must say,\u201d she said. \u201cMy husband, still to this day, doesn\u2019t believe them. He still thinks there\u2019s a dog down there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buck said emergency crews will still respond if someone is convinced it\u2019s a dog.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re not missing a dog, and nobody\u2019s talking about a dog being missing, it\u2019s gonna be frog,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sheila says she\u2019s already planning how she\u2019ll respond the next time she hears barking from a gutter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m walking right past it. OK, I\u2019m ignoring him, and I\u2019m gonna know it\u2019s a frog,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 A 911 dispatcher received an urgent call about a barking dog trapped in a sewer in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14209,132,102,138,56,14210,223,82,84,83,27,1569,15717,835],"class_list":["post-396546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-app-human-interest","tag-austin","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-houston","tag-human-interest","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-valencia-jones","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}