In early June, Josh Wells was throwing the tennis ball for his dog during his afternoon lunch break, like any other day.
It was routine for the pair to head to the J.R. Alford Greenway Trail off of Buck Lake Road for a game of fetch. Wells got Toby during the COVID-19 pandemic for his 3 1/2-year-old son.
On that Monday, it had just rained. It was muggy and hot. Toby, a 40-pound black labrador retriever mix, was standing up to his elbows in the water, which serves as drainage for the nearby residential area and feeds into Piney Z Lake.
Then "boom, the water just sort of exploded," Wells, an engineer, said. "He never barked. He never saw it."
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Be careful tossing a ball to your dog in Tallahassee...
