Have run our lab’s tie out cable in the blower a couple times No the dog wasn’t attached. When I so much as touch (not start, touch) anything with a motor – from an electric broom to a snowblower she goes into hiding. Except the atv which she was also afraid of until she discovered it could mean hunting.
DT….That happened to a friend a couple years ago. He was blowing his drive out and this kid was messing with the dog….tossing snowballs. The dog got carried away playing with the snow plume and before the blower could get disengaged the dog ran into it. Wasn’t good and the dog did not make it.
Had a friend lose a dog to a combine corn head once. Not good. DT