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Blackleaf

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The advice is usually just to leave it be rather than risking your life on the ice. Dogs are good swimmers.
 

Blackleaf

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They can't swim until spring.

Dogs are good swimmers all year round.

The advice that we always get told here is not to rescue your dog from an icy lake, because dogs are good swimmers. There have been many cases where a person has gone into an icy lake to rescue their dog and the person has drowned whilst the dog eventually managed to scramble back to shore.