PA WireAn 11-month-old puppy had a “miraculous” escape after falling 40ft off a bridge into a frozen river in Ayrshire.
Monty the lagotto romagnolo crashed through the ice covering the River Ayr in Prestwick, while his owners looked on.
Phil Hobbins jumped into the water to rescue his dog then rushed him to a pet emergency clinic.
Mr Hobbins said his family were out for a walk when the puppy had run towards the 19th century Oswald’s bridge, skidded and fallen into the water below.
“There are no cars and it’s a rural walk, so we didn’t think anything of it,” he said.
“But it was frosty and when he jumped up to have a look at the water, he skidded and fell over the edge.
“He dropped at least 40 feet onto the ice and went through into the water.
“That should be a fatal fall and if he’d gone over the middle section, where it was quite rocky below, it would have been.
But he went over at an end where there was ice and water, which must have given him a chance.”
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