IT WAS QUITE A SHOCK to Neil Frisby-Mail who was out jogging on the towpath of the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation.
For he came across people crying and screaming then realised there was a dog in difficulty in the water with its owner unable to do anything to help it, Janet Friend reports.
So Neil realised the situation, jumped in to rescue the dog, grabbing it out of the water and was bitten on the nose for his efforts!
Walking the towpath
It was miniature dachshund, Nellie, that he rescued that had been walking the towpath with its owner Evelyn Straw and her two children when the dog fell from the towpath into the canal.
After he had been gratefully thanked for his efforts, he carried on with his jogging to dry off, he telling:
"I noticed the little dog's head bobbing up and down in the canal and threw my phone and headphones on the ground and jumped in to grab it."