First of all, they didn't "freeze" the experimental animal.
Secondly, cryonics covers a broader area than just suspended animation which current techniques could reverse to restore the organism to good health. Cryonics involves the cryopreservation of the human brain, at the very least, when the prospects for revival and recovery of the individual remain unknown. It makes a rational gamble about the capabilities of trauma medicine in the future. For some reason this aspect of the cryonics argument fails to communicate effectively.
And "unknown" does not mean "miniscule," "infinitesimal," "tiny" and other dismissive words applied to the prospect of cryonics' success, a point of epistemology which also fails to communicate well. As Thomas Donaldson, Ph.D. in mathematics, has argued, we can do things now which change the assumptions in any model about the probability of saving the patient, so that the outcome becomes a movable target.
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