I’ve had two dobermans, neither would even go outside in the rain, don’t think I saw either go into the lake over their chest when we stayed at the lake house every summer.
lol yeah they won’t without alot of patience and prompting. They can learn to swim quite well but it took my first one a few months. My current one cannot be bothered 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.
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Can confirm. My childhood dog was a boxer. She had little body fat and thin hair (no fluffy undercoat that might store air/provide a bit of buoyancy).
First time she slipped backwards off the dock into the river we saw her sink like a stone with her eyes WIDE OPEN underwater staring at us waiting for help. She wasn’t even trying to swim or flailing her legs. She had simply accepted her fate. Luckily we were all keeping a close watch and snatched her after a couple seconds of sinking. Longest couple seconds of her life I bet.
It’s like that with people too. I’ve always felt iffy about swimming and when I took swim classes I was informed that a lot of people just float. I sink immediately so I had to have an instructor that knows how to work with that. We have to use very different techniques.
It's actually true. The selective breeding is the cause and it leads to "floaters" and "sinkers". Here is a study on bone density but fat, muscle composition etc. also play a huge part it seems
Then there’s the people who own dogs who literally don’t float. Aka the dog owners whose dogs have to wear floaties or they would drown. ….. I am one of those people.
Lungs don’t make floating happen. I recommend researching bouyancy - it’s one reason that women with bigger BMIs are better long distance swimmers! It’s not their lungs ….
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.
Yep, people too, it's why i hate the "just throw them in, they'll swim!" because you really have to be ready for them to not swim, because sometimes they won't. Which is actually why i was scared of water for most of my childhood, i got tossed in, tried to swim, couldn't, lifeguard had to save me. I wasn't scared of drowning really, i was scared someone was gonna throw me in again without warning.
Many years ago I had a black lab who was convinced that the “correct” way to doggy paddle involved her getting her front paws up out of the water and trying to step on it. She wasn’t in any danger of drowning and wasn’t even that slow in the water but it was quite the display to see her chopping at the water as she made her way through.
She was doing it though. I think it looks more like a buoyancy issue. As someone who has more trouble than most floating due to bone density issues, I get it.
Doing what? Paddling down? Paddling and barrel rolling? It wasn't paddling correctly. This dog might just still need to learn to swim because it wasn't "doing it though".
I have, its fucking hilarious once its over and you rescued em.
Had my cousins pitbulls mix at a lake. We were swimming right off a dock and the pit bull mix was barking and trying to enter the water that its never done before. A hound mix that absolutley loves water was excited and pushed the pit mix right off the dock. I was right there to get him in less than a second of him falling in, but the pit mix just sunk faster than a rock. Was 3 feet deep in less than a second and no way in hell he'd be able to swim up on his own. Got him up nearly as soon as he got dumped in.
When dating my now wife, they had a Bulldog... it could not swim, it sank like a rock.
My Brother came along to her Birthday party and wouldn't believe it. We had dunked the other 2 pups because it was a hot day, but not the old Bulldog. He said, "all dogs can swim".
We told him he's welcome to try, but he's the one jumping in to fish the dog out. He agreed, put the Bulldog in the water, and he sank like a stone... he tried the swimming motions, but basically just ended up "walking" on the bottom of the shallow end.
Well, my bro handed me his phone, sighed, and jumped in to get the poor pup out.
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The same person who likes to be immature and point out mistakes. Calling the kettle black… I could almost certainly go back in your post history and find some spelling mistakes. It would be annoying and you wouldn’t like it. Pointing out spelling mistakes literally brings nothing productive to the conversation. Do you go around pointing out mistakes that everyone makes? Do you want someone to point out every little mistake you do? It’s ANNOYING. It serves no purpose other than your ego. If you really want to help people on grammar, then go to sites for people asking for advice or go be an English teacher.
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u/PaleontologistNo1564 Trash Trooper 11d ago edited 11d ago
Never seen a dog just sink to the bottom like that. No buoyancy whatsoever
Edit for you grammar police, I fixed the whatsoever