Dog rescued by RNLI half a mile out to sea

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Looks like a spaniel. Set off in the sea chasing seagulls, and kept going.... Was still swimming strongly when picked up by the lifeboat crew :D.

Soggy doggy safely reunited with owner back on shore.



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Rhyl RNLI crew pick up dog half a mile out to sea https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53974777
 
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When we went to Tynemouth during a visit to my parents, Brig set off to Norway! I can’t even see him in this picture, I have no idea what he was chasing.
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On a canal walk, I had to scream at him to come back when he went after a duck, in front of a barge! He was never allowed in the canal again.
 
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One of mine jumped into/onto a frozen canal after a duck and went straight through! He sort of swam/scrambled for a minute with me screeching on the bank unhelpfully. I got his collar and hauled him out. He was cold but fine. Same one was swimming off Pagham beach last month and set off for the coast of France. I kept him on an extending lead after that.
 
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Mine was swimming in the sea and a seal started popping up getting closer and closer and spanner wasn't coming back to dry land as quickly as I would have liked. He did come back but I hand a few minutes when I was worried that the seal would eat him! I don't really think seals eat spaniels but my brain wasn't going to let that fact in at the time!!

We do get orca off the coast here occasionally though. ?

 
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I used to live by the Llangollen Canal and our dogs regularly swam across, got out the other side and came back. We did this almost daily as hydrotherapy with a JRT after she had surgery for hip dysplasia. A while later we went to the coast and she got in the sea and just started swimming in a straight line, think she was looking for the bank the other side ! Had to send a GSD in to bring her back :)
 
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Oh lord, it could only be a springer couldn't it :p

Last year, when I was at the coast with my woofs, I was sat watching the world go by when a family appeared on the beach. Mum, dad, two kids and a staffie. Now, I really am not being fattist here (I am a large person myself) but this bit is relevant to the story. They were a large family and dad was a particularly big guy.

They walked along the shoreline for a couple of minutes and the dog was REALLY bouncy. Dad, in his wisdom, decides to let the dog off the lead. Well, it took off like a rocket!!! Straight down the beach, scattering everything and anyone in its path. In the sea, out the sea but all the while, getting further and further away from owners. They were screaming and shouting, which was pointless because the dog was oblivious at this point. Dad set off running but that lasted all of 10 seconds due to his size.

Dog at this point was out of my sight now but the owners were still trying to do a run / shuffle along the beach to catch it up. The dog was obviously uber fit but they definitely weren't. I'm assuming they got their dog back :)
 
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PapaverFollis said:
Mine was swimming in the sea and a seal started popping up getting closer and closer and spanner wasn't coming back to dry land as quickly as I would have liked. He did come back but I hand a few minutes when I was worried that the seal would eat him! I don't really think seals eat spaniels but my brain wasn't going to let that fact in at the time!!

We do get orca off the coast here occasionally though. ?

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Someone’s lab was killed by a seal in Aberdeenshire a few years ago.....
 
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