Dogs walking on Lakes and Ponds

There was an incident last summer when a couple walking their dogs found their Spaniels in trouble in the water. The husband swam out to rescue the dogs leaving the wife and baby on the side. he got into trouble so the wife who could hardly swim left her 6 month old baby and jumped in to help her husband. They and both dogs drowned and a passer-by found the crying baby and the floating bodies of her parents... how irresponsible and what a tragedy for the child and remaining family.

Good post, its awful the number of people and dogs who have lost their lives.

What Ally wrote is just how I feel utterly my mad lad is born and bred to leap into water but I would rather be dead than for one moment to please him let him go on to ice picture how I would feel I arrive at some nice iced pond take his working jacket off and let him do onto relax time or doggie time and then he leaps right into a pond covered in ice and being a twenty ton cart horse of a dog he goes right through the ice and then panics struggling to get out breaking the ice as he trys and all of this with me sitting in my chair in utter angoy as what to do, as I write this I got tears and despair wealing up in me as I write thinking of that aweful picture, I even think back to when I come on leave once and it was a right old terrible day wind rain the lot, and I had just got onto the sea front when a shout went up a woman has walked in to the rough sea, I looked and saw a young woman walking out into the sea with the huge waves breaking over her, I went straight no questions asked and swam to her and grabbed her we struggled like dam mad for what seem a lifetime, a policeman joined me and we pulled her out and gave CPR then I walked off soaking wet and bit scratched, the bus driver looked at me as though I was Martian!! But I wrote that simply because the aweful thought of loosing him like that is far to frigtening

I cannot believe each time I read or hear about people who have lost their lives trying to save their dogs after falling through the ice. I would not let my dogs near ponds etc in this weather to chance it - they are part of our family and the poor families who have lost their loved ones and dogs probably wish they´d been more alert to these dangers too. Good thread!

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