The woman was carried away by the River Don near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire on Friday as she tried to rescue the dog at around 3pm, amid heavy rainfall and flooding in the UK.
Parts of the country could be swept with a month s worth of rain in 24 hours amid unseasonably warm weather for November. The Met Office has issued warnings for Scotland and north-east England.
A month s worth of rainfall has hit parts of the east coast of Scotland over the past two days, causing railway lines to flood and services to be severely delayed or in many cases cancelled.