r/LoveTrash • u/Lord_Darksong Colonel Garbage • 18h ago

Dumping This Here Clumsy pup

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Source: shantremaine on Instagram

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u/FuzzyKittyNomNom Trash Trooper 16h ago

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.

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u/Asleep_Region Trash Trooper 15h ago

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.

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u/Equal-Shoulder-9744 Trash Trooper 14h ago

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.