A dog owner has said that she is "eternally grateful" to a man who risked his life to save her puppy after he slipped into the River Tyne in Northumberland.
On Friday April 14, 25-year-old Ally Temple, a barber from North Shields, had left her five-month-old puppy Onyx with her mum Shirley while she was at work. However, when Shirley was walking the French bulldog at Prudhoe Riverside Park, disaster struck when the young pooch 'slipped' into the fast-flowing river.
Luckily, one quick-thinking passer-by was on hand to jump straight into the river and rescue Onyx, giving no thought to the danger he would be in himself. Once he had returned Onyx to Shirley, she took him straight to the vets where he was checked over and given antibiotics to get rid of any bacteria from the river and water on his lungs.
