Talk about the dog days of summer.
A U.S. Park Police detective “put her pistol aside Sunday afternoon and jumped into the murky waters of the Washington Channel to save a drowning dog, police said”, according to a story written in the Washington Post by reporter Martin Weil.
Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman, said the dog named Scout, described as a border collie, appeared to be having trouble, possibly the result of heat.
“The dog was having severe difficulties in swimming,” he said, according to the Post.
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