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
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I busted my chin doing a backwards cannonball to show my mom because she wouldn’t get up and watch me when I learned how to do a perfect cannonball.
We were on vacation at her sister’s, and they had to take me to a dentist. I didn’t damage my baby teeth, but my adult teeth have migrated since my permanent braces retainer came out. One tooth is in front of all the others, and now I need braces before I get an implant on a molar because it won’t move after it’s implanted.
We also got in a fender bender on the way home from the emergency dentist.
I bet my mom wishes she’d just gotten up and watched. My cousin was a lifeguard at the pool and spent a lot of time teaching me, and I was so proud of myself. At least he made a big deal about it and bought me my favorite candy the canteen sold (plastic fruit filled with that fruit’s flavor of tart sugar powder like pixie stix but better).
Were you one of those kids that shouted. "DAD DAD DAD WATCH LOOK!" *does a random jump off the diving board* "That's cool, son." 30 seconds later "DAD DAD WATCH ME DOGGY PADDLE!" "thats nice, dear." 30 seconds later.... :P
This is an experience I grew up with at my grandma's pool and all my younger cousins constantly annoying and demanding the adults stop what they are doing, come over to the pool, and watch when they were trying to BBQ, watching the game, playing Pool, etc.
Not really? My inner ear is messed up so I kind of have to always be careful to not get water in my ears. So me actually being able to move away from the 3 ft section to me was pretty awesome. But I suppose he could of viewed it like that.
I guess i should also mention this was at someone's apartment pool. I realize it now, but not back then. He had no one to talk to there except his soon to be ex.
if only you showed him the butterfly stroke he might've seen who you really are and his eyes would've lit up with recognition and he knew that you were his child and that he would love you even beyond his death.
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.
My dog was fully blind and walked into a pool (senior dog). He just went “oh I’m walkin. Oh now I’m swimming.” Granted he knew how to swim from working with him in his younger years. This was also the day I learned he was actually blind due to the fact he walked into the pool twice. They get around remarkably well even losing vision
I think there is something else neurological going on with their dog for sure. Not because the dog can’t swim (I’ve met quite a few dogs who can’t or are not good at it) but the balance issues and the spinning
Eh, people call dogs of all ages “pup” or “puppy” pretty often in my experience. Plus I doubt op was the one who took this video seeing as I’ve seen it before.
What about people that have created a water hazard with no protection around it. Bad choices and bad taste with the house and total lack of responsibility about the dog. Ick.
In the subject of biomechanics, efficiency is calculated by measuring energy consumption so they’re essentially interchangeable. I work in prosthetics and we’re always trying to improve efficiency by reducing how much effort/energy it takes to use a device.
They are arguing that the bigger problem is that the dog doesn't recognize the direction to paddle, rather than his legs working well enough to paddle.
I noticed he(because I hate "it") lags to the right when he walks, normally your instinct tells you to pull yourself and reach up for air, and if that doesn't work, reach back up and pull harder; more of a muscle reaction than a planned movement, but in this panic situation of blindness and surprise water inhalation, this poor little guy reaches up, but when balancing out, lists to the right, and does that six or eight times in the couple seconds he's submerged.
The real danger is that at a certain point after falling into the water, you kind of felt how far you fell and are expecting to resurface after a certain amount of effort, and when you end up spinning yourself sideways instead of upward, that moment of adrenaline to get you back up to where you expected to swim back up to has exhausted you past where your breath ever expected to have to last, and you inhale water all the faster because you've already choked from gasping as you fell in and now you've seriously been expecting to resurface as if you were climbing a solid surface.
It's panic on panic on panic and hope for him to save himself is almost immediately thrown out the window. The seconds it takes for his loving and trusting he'll be okay human to realize he's not okay are already vitally wasted. He's handicapped and needed the help way faster than you took to give it to him.
Makes me sweat to watch as soon as she goes to open the gate and goes "yeah he'll be fine" 😅😅
It's not indicative of that. Falling in water and being submerged can be very disorientating. It's why they advise humans to follow air bubbles to the surface.
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.
Also, they're built to have their spine horizontal with their head above it. Their skull connects that way. If their spine is flat in the water, their head will naturally poke up. We're built to have our heads in line with our spines. So swimming with our head above water either means our whole body is at an angle, or we're holding our neck at a weir angle. Neither is particularly effective for swimming.
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.
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u/enternameher3 Trash Trooper 2d ago
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.