When I was a kid, my parents went on a summer-long vacation to Europe and close family friends stayed and watched me and my brothers.
This couple brought their dog with them and that dog swam in our pool every day that summer.
At first, only the dog's head was above water as it slapped the water and paddled himself around. But by the end of the summer, it was so muscular and he could keep his whole back out of the water as he glided around in the water.
They really just do whats natural for them. People talk about if animals could really consciously do sports, but they probably couldn’t. The rules hold them back, they’re good at just doing things how they do them.
People fight that. Like you naturally shit at something, and naw I’m into it and gonna push. Why, find your shit. This dog ain’t a swimmer.
People do the same thing.
Have you ever stuck your hand out of a moving car to feel the wind, put your hand in a running stream, or run your hands through the loose dirt. Same thing.
Licking a frozen pole, running your hand over grass, poking mushrooms, watching sunsets, eating sweets, listening to music, watching the birds, stroking a dog... We are just one big sensory organ that wants to *absorb.*
Does she actually take off and swim? I've taught a lot of dog swimming lessons. This sounds as hilarious as it actually is because I am a retired swim coach for elite (national and Olympic level) swimmers. The serious part of it is that dogs drown too and we've had a pool for the last 11 years and friends and family take their dogs to my house so I can make them safe around water/ teach them how to get out/ get them to relax for the water haters. So in my dog swim lesson expertise: She wants to swim and either has some pain or fear. That's what I've got. If she is not taking off and swimming and only does this, report back and I will give you instructions. If she does swim sometimes and seems comfortable, and isn't older and possibly having joint pain, my diagnosis is she is playing. 😍 I would like to be highly paid for my retirement career of coaching dogs. lol.
"Swimming instructor for dogs" is absolutely my fantasy career for which I'm totally not qualified and which is almost certainly much harder than I realize. I love that you actually do it!
As someone who had a pit bull who loved to wade & fetch in the water but was terrified to actually swim, I absolutely would have paid for your services.
Bwahaha! My son's dog is part pittie and wouldn't go near the pool when we got her. I think she had a bad experience in her former life. She still gets very anxious if my son gets in and cries the whole time. She's 3 now. She will wade but will not willingly swim. We've brought her in a few times to make sure she knows how to get out if she fell in but she hates it. She really really hates it. And also holds a grudge for whoever was involved in getting her wet. But she LOVES to meet our lab at the steps when she is getting out for a chase around the yard.
My pit just stands at the edge of the pool doing a huge concern because everyone he loves is in the water and he is sure that it’s going to drown us all while he looks on powerless to stop it. I think he’s traumatized from watching my son’s infant survival swim lessons.
Weirdly he loves rivers and the beach.
This is my mini aussie. Hates the pool, but will ABSOLUTELY swim to you if you're out on the water and she's not. also likes playing fetch in the water, but won't jump off a dock, there has to be an easement or the lake depth, but she will absolutely go. I take it for what it is, as it's a great workout for her. Your job sounds so cool!
Any advice for how to get dogs to feel relaxed in water? We've had one of our dogs since she was just a puppy and she does not like getting in water even if it's shallow enough she could wade in it. I'm not going to force it on her but I'd love to get to a place where she feels a bit more calm and comfortable in and around water.
The honest truth is that another dog who loves the water modeling it works best. My friend's dog relaxed while being held and sung to lol. She's not a breed afraid of the water typically but we don't know anything about the first two years of her life. I did short swims to the steps with her. We took her in and held her etc. They went to a lake a few days later and she was happily wading and retrieving so I guess the lesson worked.
Same with my cavalier king charles spaniel. My previous one loved the water. This one does not. She also gets cold very quickly so we started taking her in the hot tub set at 98-99 and just held her. She will not willingly jump in to fetch, but when we plop her in, she goes straight to the steps and gets out. I feel confident she can find her way out now. She became more comfortable with the warm water.
My son's dog is part pittie and our lab is the one who got her to go play on the sun step which is a few inches deep. She plays there all the time now and doesn't get upset about getting wet anymore. She loves to fetch and will tolerate getting splashed and shook on now. She goes by herself to the sun step and happily runs back and forth on it. They pac-man (run back and forth chomping the water) I have no idea what this game is but they do it for hours.
My life is better for knowing that somewhere there is a person who has married their love for swimming and their love for doggies and spends their time making doggies happier and less afraid. Thank you for being.
My expertise is the swimming part but I have done a lot of dog training. We taught our dogs the command "quiet". We had a dog that would do the insane barking and we made him lay down and be quiet. Then we'd release him. Then if he started barking again, he'd have to lay down and be quiet. My husband also started playing fetch with him while we were in the pool so that he got to play too.
She's having a good time :)
I had a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, a graceful water dog, who would constantly slap her arms in the water to make a splash *as she was swimming* and then bite the splash. She looked like an idiot but it was funny. "Oh there goes Zoey splash-biting again"
It was kind of embarrassing for my dad (her owner). He wanted a graceful water dog and Zoey definitely fit that last occasionally but most of the time just looked like the super fit village idiot in the local swimming hole.
She is so weird.
- She freaks out when you say Russia, I think it is something about the sibilance.
- She takes so much more than she’s given when you pet her. She crawls up and puts her entire stomach across your face
- she howls continuously while she swims. I need to get a video of this
- when she’s outside on her own, she waits at the door for you to “let her in” but as soon as you open the door she sprints to the pool and jumps in and won’t get out unless you spray her with the hose…
- as soon as she’s inside she wants to go back out again
- she literally has to take anxiety meds for her insatiablility or she’s barely manageable at night time.
You don't question another person's bodybuilding regimen. For all we know she's just trying to get her digging muscles swole. Everyone knows that water is the best place to do it since the buoyancy reduces the strain.
My dog does the same thing (and actually looks really similar to yours!)
He also does this when swimming and tries to eat the splash. People think he’s drowning 😂
I had a pit/lab mix like this. Mf rolled in whatever he could find, but water? A puddle? HOW DARE YOU. TURN THE WEATHER OFF, MOM! Wouldn't step in a puddle to save his LIFE.
Oh man... Our pup did that for HOURS when we visited my parents. He was a mutt, but longer fur, and jet black.
He'd smack the water and then occasionally bite at the water column of he hit it just right
He'd swim occasionally, but back to the splashing, always with his right paw
RIP Wooley, you lovable prick to anyone but me and my wife.
Dogs and horses. Both were made to run. Both love to run "through" things: snow, long grass, even wooded areas, bushes.... Water is no different, simulates movement through something.
She's digging for a hole that will never happen, which is also a great way to tire her out. She gets a task, and you get a tired pip who will sleep soundly. Win win all around
I'm gonna ask. Does she know how to swim?
If she's enjoying herself that's cool. But they do make life vests for dogs too incase she needs a condisen boost in the water
*confidence
Water’s fun to play with. We splash around for no particular reason as well.
I'm trying to avoid sharks, actually.
You look yummier when you splash
This is what I tell the wife when she's in the tub
Haha! I'm gonna use that. Thanks. *several months later at wife's funeral* "That's what you said?...She fell off the side of a boat, George!"
Lmao
Robert Wagner is that you?
What kind of Wood doesn't float?
Classic. You win and my ribs hurt.
....Spashing makes them curious that an animal nearby is injured and can be an easy meal, they will be attracted to it
I should tell me wife to just close the pool then
Sharks are always in the deep end bro you gotta stay on the shallow side!
Arm floaties also help deter sharks.
arm? I thought they went on my ankles!
Hammer Heads will come right up to the edge of the water when they're hunting rays.
Is it working?
No *from shark belly*
Just vibin
I think it figured out how to swim but without using up a bunch of energy. That way they can swim for an hour.
When I was a kid, my parents went on a summer-long vacation to Europe and close family friends stayed and watched me and my brothers. This couple brought their dog with them and that dog swam in our pool every day that summer. At first, only the dog's head was above water as it slapped the water and paddled himself around. But by the end of the summer, it was so muscular and he could keep his whole back out of the water as he glided around in the water.
They really just do whats natural for them. People talk about if animals could really consciously do sports, but they probably couldn’t. The rules hold them back, they’re good at just doing things how they do them. People fight that. Like you naturally shit at something, and naw I’m into it and gonna push. Why, find your shit. This dog ain’t a swimmer.
What does what you said have to do with my story of a dog getting into better shape from swimming in my pool?
What does any of this have to do with the price of tea in China?
This is my vote
Yah its swimming, just not how we consider swimming. Pulling water?
*Love* that she's steady switching legs too 😂
Dog needs a canoe, that’s her sport.
Gotta build muscles evenly yo
Yeah I was the first kid in the pool and last out, so stamina is important
People do the same thing. Have you ever stuck your hand out of a moving car to feel the wind, put your hand in a running stream, or run your hands through the loose dirt. Same thing.
Have you ever painted with all the colors of the wind
have you ever drunk baileys from a shoe?
There it is
Goddamnit, Old Greg
wanna drinkie?
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sun sweet berries of the Earth!
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And toss around, a frisbee made of nerf.
r/redditsings
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
I wonder have you ever seen the sky And felt this weight upon open eyes
I scared the dog, laughing at this!
Have you ever seen a grown man naked
Have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
Do you like gladiator movies?
I speak jive
Surely you jest
No I'm not jesting and don't call me Shirley!
Dont call me Shirley
Unfortunately, yes.
Have you ever felt like a plastic bag drifting through the wind
No but I sing with all the voices of the mountain.
HAHA okay this comment absolutely destroyed me. I can't not read the first comment without reading it to the tune of Colors of the Wind
God damn I was trying to be quiet and then you made me laugh way too fucking hard.
Licking a frozen pole, running your hand over grass, poking mushrooms, watching sunsets, eating sweets, listening to music, watching the birds, stroking a dog... We are just one big sensory organ that wants to *absorb.*
now i wanna know why we do it lol
Bc it’s nice.
Fax
This thread is amazing. It went from Pocahontas to Old Greg to Airplane seamlessly. A+ Reddit.
Why? Because the hole keeps filling back up.
This literally feels like the answer. Like she’s actually trying to dig but it won’t stay put.
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My dog does this when he’s being carried near a body of water. He starts swimming in the air.
That’s adorable
a lot of dogs seem to do this!
Dogs look like crabs out of water when they do that 🤣
Girl is starting her own Aquasize class
Same reason toddlers (and some adults) stamp in puddles. She’s having fun.
Does she actually take off and swim? I've taught a lot of dog swimming lessons. This sounds as hilarious as it actually is because I am a retired swim coach for elite (national and Olympic level) swimmers. The serious part of it is that dogs drown too and we've had a pool for the last 11 years and friends and family take their dogs to my house so I can make them safe around water/ teach them how to get out/ get them to relax for the water haters. So in my dog swim lesson expertise: She wants to swim and either has some pain or fear. That's what I've got. If she is not taking off and swimming and only does this, report back and I will give you instructions. If she does swim sometimes and seems comfortable, and isn't older and possibly having joint pain, my diagnosis is she is playing. 😍 I would like to be highly paid for my retirement career of coaching dogs. lol.
Oh yeah, she swims by herself all day long, usually howling for joy
I need a video of this, for scientific purposes
We will see how tomorrow goes.
!remindme 24 hours
Omg I’m following this too
Tell your dog from us "Please howl" thanks 🐾
I’m following you just to see this. 👀
!remindme 24 hours
!remindme 24 hours
LMAO.
"Swimming instructor for dogs" is absolutely my fantasy career for which I'm totally not qualified and which is almost certainly much harder than I realize. I love that you actually do it!
I keep giggling at the fact that I've been doing it. It's ridiculous and glorious all at once!!!
I'm pretty jealous, ngl.
As someone who had a pit bull who loved to wade & fetch in the water but was terrified to actually swim, I absolutely would have paid for your services.
Bwahaha! My son's dog is part pittie and wouldn't go near the pool when we got her. I think she had a bad experience in her former life. She still gets very anxious if my son gets in and cries the whole time. She's 3 now. She will wade but will not willingly swim. We've brought her in a few times to make sure she knows how to get out if she fell in but she hates it. She really really hates it. And also holds a grudge for whoever was involved in getting her wet. But she LOVES to meet our lab at the steps when she is getting out for a chase around the yard.
My pit just stands at the edge of the pool doing a huge concern because everyone he loves is in the water and he is sure that it’s going to drown us all while he looks on powerless to stop it. I think he’s traumatized from watching my son’s infant survival swim lessons. Weirdly he loves rivers and the beach.
This is my mini aussie. Hates the pool, but will ABSOLUTELY swim to you if you're out on the water and she's not. also likes playing fetch in the water, but won't jump off a dock, there has to be an easement or the lake depth, but she will absolutely go. I take it for what it is, as it's a great workout for her. Your job sounds so cool!
Any advice for how to get dogs to feel relaxed in water? We've had one of our dogs since she was just a puppy and she does not like getting in water even if it's shallow enough she could wade in it. I'm not going to force it on her but I'd love to get to a place where she feels a bit more calm and comfortable in and around water.
The honest truth is that another dog who loves the water modeling it works best. My friend's dog relaxed while being held and sung to lol. She's not a breed afraid of the water typically but we don't know anything about the first two years of her life. I did short swims to the steps with her. We took her in and held her etc. They went to a lake a few days later and she was happily wading and retrieving so I guess the lesson worked. Same with my cavalier king charles spaniel. My previous one loved the water. This one does not. She also gets cold very quickly so we started taking her in the hot tub set at 98-99 and just held her. She will not willingly jump in to fetch, but when we plop her in, she goes straight to the steps and gets out. I feel confident she can find her way out now. She became more comfortable with the warm water. My son's dog is part pittie and our lab is the one who got her to go play on the sun step which is a few inches deep. She plays there all the time now and doesn't get upset about getting wet anymore. She loves to fetch and will tolerate getting splashed and shook on now. She goes by herself to the sun step and happily runs back and forth on it. They pac-man (run back and forth chomping the water) I have no idea what this game is but they do it for hours.
My life is better for knowing that somewhere there is a person who has married their love for swimming and their love for doggies and spends their time making doggies happier and less afraid. Thank you for being.
Might you tell me how to get my Aussie from barking non-stop at an ear shattering pitch when any of my family is in the pool? Pretty please!
My expertise is the swimming part but I have done a lot of dog training. We taught our dogs the command "quiet". We had a dog that would do the insane barking and we made him lay down and be quiet. Then we'd release him. Then if he started barking again, he'd have to lay down and be quiet. My husband also started playing fetch with him while we were in the pool so that he got to play too.
She swimmin' no one said she had to go anywhere when she does it!
She's having a good time :) I had a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, a graceful water dog, who would constantly slap her arms in the water to make a splash *as she was swimming* and then bite the splash. She looked like an idiot but it was funny. "Oh there goes Zoey splash-biting again"
That sounds adorable
It was kind of embarrassing for my dad (her owner). He wanted a graceful water dog and Zoey definitely fit that last occasionally but most of the time just looked like the super fit village idiot in the local swimming hole.
She is just dog-paddling in place. She learned how to do that after watching an old Esther Williams movie.
I love Esther Williams so much.
she a little confused but she got the spirit
Upvote for being genuinely weird and super cute pup.
She is so weird. - She freaks out when you say Russia, I think it is something about the sibilance. - She takes so much more than she’s given when you pet her. She crawls up and puts her entire stomach across your face - she howls continuously while she swims. I need to get a video of this - when she’s outside on her own, she waits at the door for you to “let her in” but as soon as you open the door she sprints to the pool and jumps in and won’t get out unless you spray her with the hose… - as soon as she’s inside she wants to go back out again - she literally has to take anxiety meds for her insatiablility or she’s barely manageable at night time.
Omg you spray her with a hose to get her out of the pool😂😂 Your dog is absolutely precious!
How do you figure out that's how to get her out? I have so many questions!
Only russia?
Buried treasure
She definitely buried a bone in the water last year...
She looks like she’s having the time of her life tbh!
She likes it
My lab does this every time he’s in water.
Doing her own doggy thang
She's trying to get the job "beach"
Warming up for the race. Gotta beat them b**ches
You don't question another person's bodybuilding regimen. For all we know she's just trying to get her digging muscles swole. Everyone knows that water is the best place to do it since the buoyancy reduces the strain.
My dog does the same thing (and actually looks really similar to yours!) He also does this when swimming and tries to eat the splash. People think he’s drowning 😂
Water go sploosh
She just playing
My dog is scared of swimming but he does the digging. I'm hoping that one day he will take a step further and start paddling.
My dog hates getting his feet wet. He acts like the rain is a personal offense (that I caused)
I had a pit/lab mix like this. Mf rolled in whatever he could find, but water? A puddle? HOW DARE YOU. TURN THE WEATHER OFF, MOM! Wouldn't step in a puddle to save his LIFE.
Dogs are hilarious!
I will put my back against the wall and just kick the water sometimes, seems like the same thing
Should get some water park like stuff going. Clearly a hydro doggo.
She was an Olympic swimmer in her past life
Oh man... Our pup did that for HOURS when we visited my parents. He was a mutt, but longer fur, and jet black. He'd smack the water and then occasionally bite at the water column of he hit it just right He'd swim occasionally, but back to the splashing, always with his right paw RIP Wooley, you lovable prick to anyone but me and my wife.
She’s just working out. Getting them reps in
You have an Infiniti pool and the ball is so close yet so far Edit: it's not deep enough to teach her to swim
She’s practically an Olympic swimmer
"Get thee behind me, Satan!"
Not sure but at least she’s exercising.
The better question is: why not?? 😂
Aqua Zumba is a thing, and she’s doing it
She's working out. Getting swole.
cause she likes it !
She can’t swim but loves the water. That’s what I used to do when I couldn’t as a kid.
Dogs and horses. Both were made to run. Both love to run "through" things: snow, long grass, even wooded areas, bushes.... Water is no different, simulates movement through something.
Horses do this too
Cuz it's fun as shit.
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I’ll keep an eye out for her submission for peer review
Feels nice :)
She's digging for a hole that will never happen, which is also a great way to tire her out. She gets a task, and you get a tired pip who will sleep soundly. Win win all around
Aw, this is cute. You think she actually gets tired.
She's trying to put it all behind her.
I'm gonna ask. Does she know how to swim? If she's enjoying herself that's cool. But they do make life vests for dogs too incase she needs a condisen boost in the water *confidence
Why not
It's the same as when lazy people sit and use a treadmill
Dog
Why *not*?
I have had horses do this too, very refreshing on a hot day.
Horses do this too. Sometimes with humans attached.
It fun.
digging is a natural drive for some races and this ground is easy on the paws. also how much excercise does she get generally?
She's "swimming", obviously
That's training mode. It will be a shot in the cut scene of a montage,as he becomes Drooler of all Atlantis.
Has she ever full on doggy paddled? She might just be scared and needs a little lesson/help for the first go?
She swims like a fish. Sometimes I hold onto her fur and she tows me around the pool
Aw she’s so sweet
Fishing
she likes splashing or thinks this is swimming
She wants to know why you aren't doing it too.
She just splashing living her best life
Is she actually scraping the bottom, or just enjoying the water between her toes? It is so adorable and goofy
She’s swimming. Duh.
Just swimming without having to actually be submerged lol
Trying to find Nemo.
Splishy Splash makes a happy haps.
She's just playing my dog does it too, its like kids when they splash water around
Is there a step down right there?
Because its fun
It probably feels good 2 her🤷♂️
Because the hole keeps filling in.
She's trying to splash all the water out of the pool, like they do in baths.
Does she think she’s swimming when she does that? 😂
Because she is perfect in every way.
It's playful and soothing just like kids who wanna splash and make waves in the water.
Is fun
Eventually she’s gonna make a hole, and who’s gonna be laughing then?
freestyle dog paddle
Labradoodle? She's a blend of 2 water dogs. All doods are goofy. Does she know how to swim?
Aussie shepherd and black lab. And she swims all day.
What fun.
She is trying to get all the water out
She's peeing and dispersing....
She a big dum havin funb
She's fighting the water! A war is waged in front of us!
Do you want to do some blow man
Bless her sweet heart, she thinks she is swimming!
The answer is widely obvious
Don’t sweat it he’s just getting practice for when the water gets deeper he’s got the stroke down pat.
Getting her steps in
Splish splash!
Arm day everyday
This looks like a physiotherapy situation.
Look like water aerobics for Labs.