Young couple in our town died trying to rescue there dogs from the local river. http://news.stv.tv/home/95495-police-recover-body-from-ayrshire-river/

You just never know what you would do till your in the situation.

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So sad
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That is so sad, but I know without a doubt I would go in after my dogs if they looked to be in trouble.

In this case I would not have - they had their baby daughter with them I think :-(  I would not risk my own life if I had my child with me.
So very very sad, poor family and poor dogs.

How awful, R.I.P
I too would have no second thoughts in saving my dogs if they was stuck in a river.

That's awful - What a tragic story

Vey tragic indeed :-(

This is so tragic.....I have to say if it happened to me my instinct to would be to jump in to help my dogs and think about it later.
I hope it never happens to me that I have to make a decision like that....
I hope they RIP and my thoughts go to their families and their baby daughter

How sad, I would probably do the same.

So sad, and my thoughts go to all of the family. 

So sad my cocker jumped off the canal boat this week when we were away and we heaved him out I think I would go in after him, BUT, I have adult kids if I had a baby with me I would possibly think again.

Exactly, the poor baby was left on the bank while her parents went in :-( so tragic and so needless.

Saw this on the news :( so tragic :(

thats really sad, but i have been there and i DID go in, (fully clothed, with huge sleece on..it was november!) i really struggled to get me and my boy out but i can honestly say i didnt think about it at all, as soon as i realised he was in big trouble i just jumped and i know i would do it again too.

Very tragic and terribly sad for their little girl and the rest of the family.

How very sad, but I am sure that I would have done the same.

Very sad.  I am not too sure what I would do in the event but I rather think I would not go in because I have read enough and heard of enough tragedies to know it's by the far the worst option and no help to the dog at all if you suffer the same fate.  Hubby went into the canal once to rescue a sheep, of all things, but that is very different to a fast flowing river although it was November!

it's such a tragedy.people are bound to wonder how the parents could have gone into dangerous water like that.well for one thing they would have expected to rescue tthe dogs and then come out of the river safe.it's not a question of just jumping in after the dogs willy-nilly.i think the woman went in to help her husband after he went in to get the dogs out and got into difficulty.it's terrible that a little girl is orphaned.i hope she grows up to love dogs and so can understand why her parents did what they did.i hope they all find peacexxx

> i think the woman went in to help her husband after he went in to get the dogs out and got into difficulty

I suspect that would be how it was.

How tragic :-( My sympathies to the families.

My OH went in to the river once to rescue our.....wait for it......NEWFOUNDLAND However, she wasn't at risk from drowning, she was near the bank and the river wasn't fast flowing at the time.  She had got herself stuck across a submerged tree branch and had effectively 'beached' herself.  Poor thing couldn't get herself pulled over it at all and was starting to panic and was likely to injur herself so OH went to the rescue.  The only fatality was the mobile phone that he forgot to take out of his pocket (luckily it belonged to his employer). 

I can't honestly say I wouldn't have done the same in the same position as the poor couple who drowned as I don't think I could watch my dogs drown and not try to help them :-( I'd never forgive myself.  However, I may not think like that if I had a baby to think of...who knows?

> well for one thing they would have expected to rescue tthe dogs and then come out of the river safe

Agree totally with poppity.  I wouldn't be jumping in to rescue my dogs thinking that I wouldn't be successful. 

this is so sad :( poor family. i dont think anyone can say what they would or wouldnt do in the situation until presented with it. i think i would go in after my dog regardless, he is a member of my family and i promised to look after him the day i brought him home.

Very sad.  Poor family, especially the baby.

From when my dog was a pup I warned my son to never ever go into the lake or any river after our dog.  Too often, you read that an owner goes in and drowns whilst the dog eventually scrambles out alive.  I came to the conclusion long ago that if a dog can't survive a water situation it is even less likely that a person will.

When you look at the river it is hard to imagine how it could take the lives of 4.

I know I have done the same when an over exhuberhant 5 month old pup swam out with the other dogs and could not get back, just continued to circle until tired so I needed to wade in and save him, it's just an instinct. In heavy rapids or the sea I would think twice and with a baby in a pram my maternal instincts would stop me completely, it must have been as suggested that the wife went in to try save her husband I know against my better judgment I would do the same, what else can you do.

What an absolute tragedy and a lesson that water can easily pull us under even when just a little choppy.

The poor child left behind, the one thing left is that she knows her parents loved one another, the whole family must be so devastated. RIP two brave souls.

if a dog can't survive a water situation it is even less likely that a person will.

Yes, that is well to be remembered.

Just read the newspaper reports and it was the wife who went in to save the dogs and the hubby then to save the wife?

I'm shocked that a mother would leave her baby to save the dogs, gosh I even stopped doing roller coasters when I had my babes I wouldn't risk anything that would leave my babes without a mother, I love my dog but - not that much.

>I'm shocked that a mother would leave her baby to save the dogs,

Like someone else said, she wouldn't have entered the water thinking that she wouldn't make it out :(  Perhaps she was the stronger swimmer...I know if I'd been with OH the day our Newf got herself into difficulties, it would have been me in the river hauling her out simply because I'm more confident in water and a more competent swimmer than he is.

That is so incredibly sad... I suppose the only saving grace is that the baby won't remember the tragedy.  I have a baby and a toddler and a husband I adore so I cannot imagine not trying to save him if he was in trouble... Poor woman faced with that at the time... what an awful tragedy...

>Just read the newspaper reports and it was the wife who went in to save the dogs and the hubby then to save the wife?

The Telegraph has it the other way around. The father went into the water first.

Whatever way round it was, sadly there is a baby and, I understand, two other children who have lost both mother and father.

Ten years ago (and I cannot believe it was that long ago) a lady that worked at the same firm as I did then died with her husband, just after Christmas, trying to help their labrador who had gone through ice in a local country park.   Two other people almost died as well, trying to rescue them.   Their dog managed to extricate herself but sadly finished up in rescue I understand because the grown up son and daughter blamed her for what had happened to their parents.

So very, very sad - and my thoughts are with both families still.

They always say you should not go in as often the dogs get themselves out (though I see they didn't this time), but I reckon I would go in if they were in trouble. :-(

I recall many years ago on the East Coast I think, a policeman, or was it even two, died trying to rescue a man that had gone into the sea to rescue his dog so it is worth remembering that it is maybe not only yourself you are sacrificing.