I know Blue is a dog lover so I'll tell this story here.
We used to walk our Black Lab at a park alongside a river. Everyone knew each other there, so when someone went in into the river after their dog one winter after it fell through the ice, word spread quickly, and they were of course regarded as a hero. One person we knew had a young Golden named Sandy our dog played with a lot. We were walking and ran into them and said "hey, did you hear that someone's dog went through the ice and they went in after it and saved it?" She answered "Yes, that was me! Sandy went out on the ice and fell through. It wasn't far and she could have swum around the ice floe, but she just kept trying to climb back up the way she came instead. I could see she was getting exhausted so I waded out until I could grab her and pull her around." It was just chest deep on her, so she was able to do it without much danger. But she was a park hero from then on.
Later that year they had to put Sandy up for adoption, and we were able to adopt her as a companion for our Lab. They were quite a pair.