With Most of His Fur Gone, This Puppy Was Trapped Beneath a Sheet of Ice — Then a Rescuer Saw His Nose Above the Water

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With most of his fur missing, the puppy had almost vanished beneath the clear ice; only his black nose remained above the water, widening with each thin, desperate breath. Melissa Hart saw it at 7:12 on a late-February morning behind her apartment complex in Minneapolis. She was cutting across the edge of a stormwater retention pond when a small dark point…