Labrador rescued after jumping into kayak and floating across loch

A Labrador had to be rescued after she jumped into a kayak and floated into the middle of a Highland loch. Rosy the dog was playing on the shore of Loch Broom in northwestern Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, which leads to the Atlantic, with owners Michael and Sean Osborne on Wednesday afternoon.



The two brothers, aged 18 and 15, whose family live just outside Ullapool, were swimming in the loch and had left a kayak lying on the shoreline with Rosy wandering nearby. When they looked back to shore they noticed that the six-year-old dog, who is frightened of the water, had sat down in the one-person vessel. The kayak slowly dislodged from where it was sitting and began to float in the shallows.





The boys' mother Lisa Osborne, who runs two holiday homes in the remote north west village, said: "They saw her sitting in it and saw it happening but they presumed she would float back to the shore or jump out, but she didn't. She floated all the way out and basically went to sea in a kayak. Rosy kept looking over her shoulder at the shore as she's quite frightened of the water. We think that's why she didn't jump in.



"She just kept looking at them as if asking them to come and save her. She got so far out that they they thought they had best go and get her. The boys swam back to shore and got a little rowing boat. They used the paddle from the kayak and went to rescue her." Mrs Osborne added: "Somehow they managed to persuade her to get out of the canoe jump into the dinghy, which is quite something as she usually can't be persuaded to do anything unless there's food involved. She was fine afterwards. She's a lovely dog, very friendly. She's quite a character."