Please be very careful to keep your children and dogs under control and watch them closely near and around any local streams. The water is running extremely fast and deep. It is also very cold.
If your dog is a water dog, please stay completely away from the streams or keep them leashed. Even shallow wading in eddies for a drink can be unsafe!
Don’t even try going into the water to save your dog if it does fall in. The currents are simply too strong, and the strongest person is simply no match for them. Go downstream and try to find spots where your dog could have got out, and ask others for help. But stay away from the water.
Please pass the word: There have already been way too many dogs put in peril, and way too many people mourning the loss of their canine family member.
