Missing mum Nicola Bulley's dog was found "bone dry" next to the river where she vanished, according to a villager.
The 45-year-old mum disappeared last Friday morning while on a walk with springer spaniel Willow in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire.
She had dropped her two daughters at school at around 8.45am before taking the dog along a nearby towpath by the River Wyre.