Boat dog
Jan 10, 2022 17:19:47 #
Fish Hungry Bob
Loc: Grand Isle La
Had a mom and daughter pair of Dobermans. Mom jumped into an algae covered coulee as a pup and wouldn’t go near water thereafter. Daughter loved to swim and would swim ducks across the pond where mom would run around to catch them to deliver to our back door. One middle of the night a barking, howling and snarling from the middle of the pond woke me. My light revealed daughter in the middle of the pond with a raccoon wrapped around her head with a newly swimming mom snapping at the coon. My canoe and paddle broke up the party and mom swam often after.
Jan 10, 2022 17:22:59 #
Fishing Fool
Loc: redding, ca
My chocolate lab when I first got her looking as if she was drowning but in a few weeks was swimming laps arouen my 3 acre pond. On the other hand my Rott, staffordshire, and Pyranee cross does not like the water any deeper than her ankles. She can swim though if she has to.
Jan 10, 2022 20:42:51 #
T likes to fish
Loc: Mulberry, AR
Hahahaha! Great stories! I had a Vizsla who couldn’t swim very well either. She would try, but she looked like a slip bobber, straight up and down with her front paws throwing so much water all over the place and back legs barely moving! She loved to retrieve, but if you threw her ball into our above ground pool she would run around the top of the metal skirting and bark until the ball floated close enough for her to reach without jumping in. Thanks for the memories and stories!
Jan 10, 2022 21:47:24 #
Two stories. My black lab Buddy, as a pup would sit on the shore and cry, he wanted to swim but was to afraid to make the initial jump. I jumped in the lake with him in my arms, and let him swim back to shore. Never had a problem afterwards. Would spend hours playing in the pond. My two springer pups, were to young to let swim, so we put them in the boat and started to paddle. Both jumped out of the boat and swam to shore. I have a dock and both of them run out and dive off just like kids. They go swimming even if the waters freezing cold, which I don’t appreciate.
Jan 10, 2022 21:50:32 #
Justoldjim
Loc: JUNCTION CITY, OR.
Years ago we had a Chihuahua and a cat that went boating with us if the dog jumped into the water which he did often the cat would follow
Jan 10, 2022 21:59:14 #
Where we often went camping when I was a kid, there was a dock, the end of which was about four feet above the water. All us kids would run out the dock as fast as we could go and take a flying leap into the water. Then we'd haul out and get in line to do it again. Our mutt would do the same thing, even getting in line and waiting her turn. She loved flying off the end of that dock as much as we did. Anytime we swam, so did she.
Jan 10, 2022 23:51:54 #
Jan 11, 2022 01:13:27 #
Justoldjim
Loc: JUNCTION CITY, OR.
just like a dog. this cat as a very young kitten was found on our front step the first night we had him he just casually walked into the shower with me so I picked him up and gave him a good bath and he liked going into the water after that he would also fetch a rubber hair curler and liked to sit on the second floor window sill and watch traffic on the street below
Jan 11, 2022 11:15:17 #
Muscle mass will sink body fat will help u or ur dog float when in school I was pretty fit playing football I couldn’t float on my back like many could I would sink and have to paddle with my hands to keep my face above water
Jan 11, 2022 22:31:52 #
Grizzly 17 wrote:
I've had swimmers n sinkers. I knew a guy that was like a channel marker. 6'2" 325+ jump in the pool n just Bob around. I weighed 170 then n I couldn't float even trying to lay spread eagle on the surface.
I was the same way. Hit neutral buoyancy vertical about 6 inches down.
Jan 12, 2022 14:09:38 #
Maid Marion wrote:
Thinking of my little Oreck yesterday, I remember ... (show quote)
MM, my little dog can swim but she doesn’t like the water. I was surprised at that. That was a great story about your little dog. Thank you.
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Jan 12, 2022 16:51:47 #
hacksaw wrote:
MM, my little dog can swim but she doesn’t like the water. I was surprised at that. That was a great story about your little dog. Thank you.
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Your welcome. Hope it saves dog lives. We got him a dog PFD that he couldn't slip out of with a hand loop on top to haul him out. The only boat we had was 18ft sailboat. They ride higher in the water than most fresh water fishing boats(?) If he went in the only way to reach him would be to jump in too. Then you have another problem.
Jan 12, 2022 21:17:46 #
Maid Marion wrote:
Your welcome. Hope it saves dog lives. We got him a dog PFD that he couldn't slip out of with a hand loop on top to haul him out. The only boat we had was 18ft sailboat. They ride higher in the water than most fresh water fishing boats(?) If he went in the only way to reach him would be to jump in too. Then you have another problem.
Yes Ma’am, I agree with you. I had no idea a dog PFD existed. Now I do. Thanks again.
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Jan 13, 2022 06:46:10 #
My Catahoulas are also web footed. Great swimmers. Breed comes from the Louisiana bayou.
Jan 13, 2022 08:44:15 #
hacksaw wrote:
Yes Ma’am, I agree with you. I had no idea a dog PFD existed. Now I do. Thanks again.
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Knew a guy once that fished the outer banks in NC. He would launch his Zodiac off the beach and run out 2 miles or so to an offshore shoal, kedge anchor the boat on the Lee side. Then wade fish for red drum. The dog went with him. Had a custom made pfd and swam all around while sea puppy fished. Don't know how that dog survived. Between brutal currents and rough water and an abundance of bkacktip and bull sharks its amazing how either did.
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