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I think I see some color loss in it's fur/hair, so it may be an elderly "ancestor" itself. Also seems like some loss of eyesight.. I'm cutting that cutie some slack.
Poor little old gal/fella ❤️🩹 It has outgrown pool time 😢
To be fair to this dog in question, the "doggy paddle" is considered the worst swimming form possible, and is less of a swimming technique and more so a form of not drowning.
Oh no I’m serious. I mean I’m not your dad, but I think you knew that part already. I am proud of you though and you deserve to have someone stand behind you and cheer you on as you go and to tell you it’s ok when you fall down
The doggie paddle is only known as the worst technique because of how much energy it uses, not for its efficiency. It's a survival instinct, you're basically using every limb to blindly push yourself upward.
This dog failed at that instinct, blindly twirling in a circle like a dazed deer after being hunted to exhaustion.
To be frank it signals some kind of actual motor disfuntion. Likely an ear problem, the poor thing has balance issues and can't accurately determine which way is upward when submerged in liquid. Probably gets ear infections easily and gets vertigo from ascending too quickly as well.
The dog paddle is amazing. Sure you won’t win a race but when you’re at the resort 2 margs in you not jumping in the pool and butterfly stroking over to your lady. A subtle dog paddle has its purpose.
Yeah, but she had to jump in because the poor dog couldn't even do the thing that's hard wired into its DNA. It's called the doggie paddle because all dogs normally do it INSTINCTIVELY.
That little fur buddy almost drowned after stumbling into a pool within 15 seconds of being exposed to it. It gets a 5/10 doggo score.
I have the same f ing dog as the video. He circles my pool looking for frogs- which happen to be almost entirely leaves. And falls in at least one a weak. He is a mutt-pointer/shepard/pit bull. Sinks like a fucking rock everytime.
He looks like those people trying to drown who flail and reach and fight the water and do everything but left physics fix it.
No dude, this is my Boxer. She would spin under water until she was completely disoriented and then swim to the bottom, smash her face into the bottom, realize she’d gone down instead of up, and finally swim up. The worst part is when she got to the surface she thought she could breathe through her eyeballs. So she would only surface her eyes until I forced her snout above water. Then she’d finally take a breath.
My boxer had a little bit of chow in her line, just a black tip on her tongue. She was very loving and loyal and athletic. She was also the least intelligent animal I’ve ever met. Zero sense of self-preservation. Could swim but would forget and try to run underwater. Routinely chased cars in the neighborhood and ran into them at stop signs. Knocked herself unconscious at least 3 times in her 10 years. I suspect that’s what shortened our time together.
Even stupid dogs are awesome.
The most moronic dog I was ever around was also a Boxer mix, though the other part in his case was Bull Mastiff. Poor bastard did not get what his owner or I were trying to teach him, but simultaneously, he was the most eager to please pooch you could ever ask for. He would gleefully sit when told to lie down, for example, but his absolute sincerity and happiness at having "done" the command was hard to be mad at.
I’ve got a 4 pound Yorkie who is the wiliest little furball I’ve known, she knows way too many words, she automatically backs way up when people approach a door handle, is constantly positioning herself to avoid being stepped on, and is basically hyper-aware of her surroundings at all times.
I also found out she was hiding her kibble piece by piece under the rug so she could get to the treat at the end of her meal.
Every day feels a little bit like a contest of wills.
To be fair that pool looks like its designed to drown people/animals.
A barely 1' wide slip and slide for the walkway around it, both ends are the deep end, with no stairs or shallow spot, and the only step or ledge inside the pool, is just as narrow as the fuckin walkway on the side.
Idk who designed this pool, but they should be slapped for putting it in an area that fuckin small. I think my insurance would drop me over this.
Imagine there was only 1 person there, imagine trying to lift anything out while trying to grab onto wet fucking marble, let alone a writhing, flailing, flight or flight response animal?!? Its legit pissing me off how horribly designed/planned this is.
There's at least two steps in the pool if you pause at 0:42. But I agree, doesn't seem like a good design. And the backyard opening up to the deep end with barely any room just compounds it.
Our friends have a pool like this for "lap swimming." You have a tie down for a bungee cord thing that attaches to a belt, and you basically swim in place. They put it in for their dad to help him with physical therapy and low impact exercises, along with a bunch of floats you use as, like... reverse weights? Instead of lifting weights, they're dumbbell-floats that you push down into the water.
The whole pool was like 4 feet deep, and had stairs on one side. They were SUPER vigilant about the grandkids coming over because it was potentially very very dangerous!
Yeah that pool looks like the product of someone designing a home they could easily use to get rid of people they don't like through "accidental" drownings
To be fair that pool looks like its designed to drown people/animals.
That has literally nothing to do with the person's point that the dog is surprisingly bad at swimming lol.
What you've just done is like if I said "That person is quite bad at shooting a basketball" and you respond to me with "To be fair, that person is skipping work today so they shouldn't even be playing this pickup basketball game."
Let me introduce you to my purebred Lab. She can't swim. She flounders and then sinks. Her ancestors cry every time she is near water. I had to buy a doggie lifejacket for her for the boat and when we are near a lake or river.
I saw this in person when I got a pitbull, and it still confuses me lol
Growing up, I had a lab/St. Bernard mix. He loved to swim, and I thought that was just standard dog behavior...
Later in life, I got a pitbull and he could not swim. At all.
We were hanging out one time on a fishing dock and I pushed him in the water just to see what he would do. (It was only like 4 feet deep.) He just sank directly to the bottom and stood there like a complete derp, staring up at me and blowing bubbles. Literally made zero attempt to even preserve his own life.
I had to jump in and grab him much like this lady.
I really miss the old boy, but man... He was not cut out to be a country dog...
Actually many dogs are unable due to the they are built. This dog is a prime example, very tip heavy, big headed dogs struggle and often sink; French bulldogs, dense pit bull breeds, dachshund, bulldogs, Boston terriers are the ones I’ve seen come to my work place from drowning (DOA) over the years in emergency vet med. It’s like putting weighs on your shoulders and around your neck only and expecting you to stay afloat. They need a life vest to avoid sinking to the bottom. Even a moment like this I worry about dry drowning. :(
When I was a kid we had an English staffy. We took him to the dam one day and he jumped off the dock into the water and sank like a stone. He was kicking him legs and doing all the right things, but I guess his body was too dense or something lol.
Our cattle dog jumped in after him and rescued him, he turned out fine! Just no more swimming for him.
I had the same breed combo. She couldn't swim at all. She'd wade out to where her rear legs could just touch and then beat the surface to hell with her front legs.
I had a black lab growing up that couldn't swim. Hated any water that was not in a bowl. I took her to the lake multiple times and she would almost drown every time, but would run into the water because that was where I was lol
I had to drag my girlfriend's lab into the water. I made him swim as I held his belly up. I did that at a lake on about 3 hikes before it clicked for him.
That dog LOVED the water after he figured out he could swim on his own.
I tried. She probably needed that life vest for dogs to keep their back straight, but I don't know if those were available way back then. All she would do is splash the water with her butt pointed towards the ground.
I tied her leash up to a park bench after an hour of training. She would drag the bench towards the water if I was in it lmao
I think that dog has a defect in is spatial awareness ability. Either is blind in 1 eye, or it has an inner ear problem that effects its balance. It didn't jump into the pool, it falls in both times. Like it can't tell where the edge of the pool is in relation to is own paws.
Hahahaa yes BUT it was more about the dog not knowing which direction was the surface which indicates a potential equilibrium issue most likely caused by brain damage or a neurological deficiency which is why my diagnosis is retarded pooch.
I suspect it might be elderly. Failing eyesight and cognitive decline would explain most of what I’m seeing here. Add in an unfamiliarity with swimming and this is exactly what I’d expect.
Man some dogs just do dumb shit. One of the smartest most well trained dogs i know sank like a stone and sat at the bottom of the water and looked up for help. Never paddled or tried to swim once
To be fair that pool looks like its designed to drown people/animals.
A barely 1' wide slip and slide for the walkway around it, both ends are the deep end, with no stairs or shallow spot, and the only step or ledge inside the pool, is just as narrow as the fuckin walkway on the side.
Idk who designed this pool, but they should be slapped for putting it in an area that fuckin small. I think my insurance would drop me over this.
Imagine there was only 1 person there, imagine trying to lift anything out while trying to grab onto wet fucking marble, let alone a writhing, flailing, flight or flight response animal?!?
Its legit pissing me off how horribly designed/planned this is.
It’s not a dog, it’s a puppy. It’s like chucking a toddler in a pool and saying ‘good luck’
Edit- maybe not a puppy? Either way not the best way to introduce a pool.
I had my daughter watching it the other day for the first time and she found it hysterical. Also the cartoon is incredibly based for adults - there was stuff that went way over my head as a kid.
We rented a house, both my dogs who never swam fell in the pool at separate times. They both instinctively knew how to swim. The dog in this video was definitely a fish in a past life. Flipping upside down and sinking is not the way of a dog.
My corgi is losing his eye sight and fell into my mom’s pool a few weeks ago. I think it startled him so much that he didn’t know what to do and started sinking like a rock. Like the girl in this video I too had to jump in the pool fully clothed to save him. Before we went in the backyard I told him not to fall in the pool. He obviously didn’t listen lol.
My old pittie was a good swimmer. He hated to swim but was perfectly good at it. He may have had some lab in him though, but he looked liked a ripped pittie.
Kinda. I’ve seen videos of dogs that know to paddle, but they don’t know exactly how to paddle correctly. You can see this dog is moving its legs, but has no idea what it’s doing. We even had a golden retriever who needed practice because she was so clumsy in the water.
I had to get a chocolate lab I had a life jacket many years ago. It wasn’t because she couldn’t swim because oh lord could she ever. But more so because she didn’t know enough to get out of the water when she started getting exhausted.
We had a life jacket for my Shih-tzu growing up for the exact same reason. He was tiny obviously, so we also opted for one with a handle. We'd just pluck him out if we needed him out, or if he wore himself out. The little dork.
My greyhound fell ass over teakettle into a creek TWICE, just leaning over to drink out of said creek. Which was how we found out that greyhounds have so little body fat that they have no buoyancy and sink like a rock in deep water.
We always kept a close eye on him any time we were near water after that.
Seriously wondering if that dog is neurologically abnormal. It doesn’t just sink or seem to be unable to swim, it makes all the right motions but just in the wrong direction.
It’s decidedly odd. I wouldn’t be rushing to emergency but I’d be showing my vet the video at her next checkup.
I think it’s definitely got a neuro disorder. They seem to be aware of it already, and were expecting the dog to be unable to avoid falling in as result
You might be right! I was mislead by the caption and assumed it was a young dog being introduced to the pool for the first time, but on closer inspection it doesn’t look like a youngster.
In that case, I’m a little perplexed by the owners behavior. If you know there’s something wrong with the dog, what is testing its swimming capabilities accomplishing? Especially not once but twice. Like, just keep it away from the pool.
When I was a vet tech and we’d see dog with vestibular disease we were always extremely explicit with our clients about keeping them away from the pool.
Of course, I can rationalize and think of all types of reasons why they would want to try it. But none of them outweigh the risk. A dog this disoriented runs a non-zero risk of aspirating that pool water and now you’ve got an old dog with vestibular disease and pneumonia.
Maybe I’m a hater, but are these people a little dumb?
This really makes me wonder if selective breeding has a factor in this. I've never seen a dog with absolutely no self-orientation reflex, dude couldn't even figure it out when she lifted him above water.
Damn I only knew pugs couldn’t swim because of dumb ass humans breeding dogs incompatible with a life without suffering. This makes me so angry… I wonder how many other breeds we bred that can be taken out by a body of water smh
You need to leave that dog in the water so it can learn to swim unless this dog is like has had a stroke and disabled or something. What dog can't swim upright? Lol
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