On Monday morning, a friend was walking across Prospect Park. When he reached the  9th street entrance, he saw a woman with two dogs burst into tears after talking with another dog owner.

The dog owner explained to my friend that someone’s dog had run out on to the ice in pursuit of some birds at  Dog Beach, and drowned. Said the fog was so thick the people on shore couldn’t even see what was happening.

My friend passed this along to me because “not every dog owner might connect the danger of thin ice with their pets.”

According to Park Slope Patch: “The poodle was named Pasha and was 3 or 4 years old, according to Sean Casey, founder of Sean Casey Animal Rescue, who knows the poodle’s owner.”