I can't imaging how you felt. Just brought back memories.
I had a 6 month old chocolate lab named KoKo named after (KoKo Beware) don't ask me why................any way went to my grandparents house for the day. When we return, we found our dog hanging on the fence by his collar. We thought he had jump up and got hung on the fence. Well.........we where wrong. The old boy was off telling people what he did to our dog. My dad found out. Didn't do a thing about it.

My dad use to say "it could of been us".
P.S. I like your Daily Devotion.
