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The dog sustained no injuries in the incident Sunday.
A couple walk their dogs on Peggotty Beach in Scituate, MA on November 16, 2021. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe
A Scituate police officer borrowed a kayak to rescue a golden retriever who’d swum too far out into the ocean on Sunday.
Scituate police received a report of a dog failing to respond to calls to swim to shore at Peggotty Beach around 9 a.m. on Sunday.
The dog swam 100 yards from the shore, further than its usual swim, and bit onto a buoy mooring, seemingly wanting to bring it back to shore, police say.
Officer Bill Crossen, who recently joined the police force, borrowed a kayak from the owner of a nearby home, police say.
Crossen got the dog to release the mooring and guided it back to shore.
It took Crossen about a half an hour to guide the dog, Gypsy, back to the beach, owner Lauren Sears told Boston 25 News.
“Officer Bill kayaked out (and) got so wet. I felt so terrible, because the water was so cold,” Sears told the news station. “Eternally grateful that he did that … I don’t know what we would’ve done.”
The dog did not sustain any injuries, police say.
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