A pregnant woman races to save her dog from icy water and ends up having to pull her boyfriend out too.

Hillary Koppes and Jimmy Maier say once they realized Ollie had broken through the ice, they didn't have time to think about the danger. They just wanted to save their pet.

"I went down there and it all happened really quickly," Hillary says.

Now, warm in her living room with her boyfriend, their son and their dog Ollie snuggled on a couch, Hillary has time to think about Monday’s scare—the day she thought she had lost Ollie.

She "could see something rippling in the water and it was Ollie’s head. It was all that was sticking out," Hillary says describing what her mom saw through binoculars.

Hillary says she let Ollie out of the house on Lake Wissota Monday morning around nine. When she couldn't see her a few minutes later, Jimmy drove around trying to find her. But, it wasn't until Hillary’s mom came home five hours later that they spotted Ollie out in the water yards from shore and far from home.

"I grabbed a stick. I wanted her to bite it so I could pull on her, but she wouldn't open her mouth. I got it under her collar and just laid there like 'Jimmy will come," Hillary tells us.

"I saw her lying on the ice and I made her get back to safety, you know. I laid down on the ice and I tried to grab her and it just broke," Jimmy says.

Jimmy says the ice broke all the way to where Hillary was standing on thicker ice near shore. She was able to pull both him and Ollie out of the water.

"Maybe it was like mothers lifting cars,” she says. “I don't know how I did it, but it happened and I’m kind of surprised that I lifted 80 and 180 pounds with no idea how I did it."

Eagle Point Fire Chief Jeff Bowe says by the time his crews got to the scene Hillary, Jimmy and Ollie were already all safe on shore. But, he says this late into the spring, the ice just isn't safe for anyone to be out on.

“Call for help and wait,” the Chief says. “It seems like a long period of time waiting, but we will get there and do the rescue."

"I really should not have done that and he shouldn't have either," Hillary says in hindsight.

I "should've called someone, I guess,” Jimmy agrees. But he says “it's like losing a child. You're attached to your pet.”

We're happy to report that Ollie is doing well and Hillary and Jimmy are expecting their second child.