A plucky pup was hailed a “real life Lassie” for helping to save her doggy dad from drowning after he plunged into a frozen lake during a walk.
On Dec. 14, Sharon Skinner was walking two dogs, a cocker spaniel named Bruce and his seven-month-old puppy, River in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, when Bruce ran over a frozen fishing lake and fell into it.
Bruce had run off as Skinner was putting both dogs into her car after taking them for a walk.
Bruce (L) and River (R). (SWNS)
“Bruce is usually well-behaved and loves getting into the car at the end of a walk, so when I turned around in the car park and he was gone I couldn’t believe it,” Skinner said. “I called out for him but couldn’t hear anything—it was his daughter River that alerted me to something being wrong.”…