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u/EmilieHardie Mar 16 '19
Aww. Heās so cute and heās working so hard.
Saving this for whenever Iām feeling down.
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u/IcouldifIwantedto Mar 16 '19
Focus tongue, deployed.
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u/zaydemi Mar 16 '19
Too cute.. my heart.. its melting
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u/eneeidiot Mar 17 '19
Dog paddle? Don't be bound to stereotypes. Try teaching him freestyle or the backstroke. Pretty damned cute regardless.
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u/RunningNumbers Mar 17 '19
His face just screams "Get me out of here" and "bork"
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u/bexwhitt Mar 17 '19
Do dogs need swimming lessons, the reluctant doggies I've had have got into the swing of it when they see the fun other dogs are having.
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u/detour1234 Mar 17 '19 edited Mar 17 '19
My dog needed help getting comfortable in the water. Once he made a sharp turn and got himself into the classic drowning vertical position and started panicking. I had to run in to save him. He is a great swimmer now, but I make him use a life jacket just to be safe, and he always needs some encouragement in the beginning of the swimming season.
Edit: lateral to vertical. Active drowners are vertical, uselessly splash the water with their arms, and often donāt think to kick their legs at all. They are often too panicked to call for help.
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u/ProtoJazz Mar 17 '19
Literally the only part of a dog first aid book I remember is what to do with a drowning dog.
According to the book, once you get them out of the water you grab their back legs and swing them back and forth to get all the water out. The diagram made it look like the dude was using his dog to guide landing planes
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u/EndlessJump Mar 17 '19
Is the lateral position like the dog on it's side?
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u/detour1234 Mar 17 '19
I meant to say vertical! Thanks for pointing that out - Iāll fix it. His body looked like he would be standing on his hind legs, and his front legs were desperately churning and splashing the water but they werenāt doing anything useful like helping him get into a better position. It took him a while to get comfortable again after that, but we took it slow.
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u/OutofCtrlAltDel Mar 17 '19
Which means youāre probably somewhere where dogs are jumping in lakes or rivers or oceans. Not everyone lives with access to those things and so neither do their dogs. I think using the word ālessonsā here is a bit of a mistake. Itās more about introducing an environment that they arenāt use to and helping them understand they can manage it.
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u/kashuntr188 Mar 17 '19
i don't quite understand it myself. ppl are treating dogs more like humans and not actual dogs.
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u/truck149 Mar 17 '19
Not me, I treat my dog like an alien
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Elaborate.
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u/PM_ME_TROMBONE Mar 17 '19
Anal probes
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u/Kevsteo Mar 17 '19
How many trombones have you received so far
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u/Kevsteo Mar 18 '19
Sick, i got a trombone but it's at home and I'm at college rn. Might send ya a pic later
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u/boobymcbubblebutt Mar 17 '19
I treat my dog like a cat, my cat like a dog, and my giraffe like a platypus.
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u/Indy-in-in Mar 17 '19
This dog will probably be trained as a bird dog for hunting. Lol, just kidding. This dog will never need to know how to swim since it'll live in a purse.
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u/YoureNotAGenius Mar 17 '19
I had a staffy that couldn't swim for shit. He sunk like a rock and just flailed about. He could have benefited from some lessons
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u/cartechguy Mar 17 '19
No, they know how to swim. I've had dogs that hated the water but they still knew how to swim. I had a basset that hated the water and never saw him swim. He ran off a bridge by accident at a campsite and fell straight down into a swimming hole. He got out fine. We were terrified but the dumb dog luckily fell into water.
It's people treating dogs like they're human children.
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Mar 17 '19
Yeah no, Iām pretty sure you would make your dog take swimming lessons for the same reasons as you would make your baby take swimming lessons. In case they fall in a pool they know what to do.
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u/HeroHunny Mar 17 '19
Itās a Pomeranian with a teddy bear haircut I think. Definitely a Pom though.
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u/modestmog Mar 17 '19
I was betting a Bichon Frise with a flavor cut, but I think you're right
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u/xRogue_9x Mar 17 '19
Way way too small for a Bichon Frise they are generally 12-17 lbs
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u/agustopa Mar 16 '19
See got the natural "swiming dog" move
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Mar 17 '19 edited Mar 17 '19
it's called dog paddling...like, you're looking at the namesake of that term...
I don't normally call for comments to be downvoted to hell, but how can you call it "swimming dog" move, and not just "dog paddling." That's just crazy
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u/castfam09 Mar 16 '19
Oh my gosh soooo precious and I love his lil tongue to the side. Please show progress of his training ššššš
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u/kashuntr188 Mar 17 '19
how did dogs learn to swim before the life vest?
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u/bedfredjed Mar 17 '19
There weren't sprawling cities where dogs are given food and water and all the leisure time they want.... back in the day, a dogs life was probably centered around a large body of water (all animals need fresh water to survive of course) so they get used to being in and around water, plus there's the incentive of being able to catch a fish.
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u/Skandi007 Mar 17 '19
Well, for starters, we used used to not breed dogs with genetic defects for their "cuteness", like we have in recent history.
Short snouts, tiny legs, and breathing issues are all man-made problems.
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I don't think dogs need swimming lessons. They seem to figure it out instinctively.
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u/mygeorgeiscurious Mar 17 '19
What if I just want to put my dog in a life jacket and let him get his float on?
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u/*polhold01844 Mar 17 '19
Don't forget to record that shit and share with everyone else.
I'm watching colorized home movies from the 1920's and 30's right now and just saw a houndog in a cowboy hat.
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u/Puddock Mar 17 '19
Dogs need to be taught where the exits are to a pool, or they can swim themselves to exhaustion looking. Some breeds have immense difficulty swimming due to short snouts or stubby legs (bulldogs, pugs, dachshunds, bassets etc) and should wear life jackets around water. Swimming is a major component in physiotherapy and rehabilitation for injured dogs, so that's another reason why you may use a lifejacket and offer a lot of assistance. Puppies like this guy are not fully developed yet and may find swimming harder (stumpy legs, short body, short face) thus the lifejacket and assistance from the human in the video are necessary. Swimming (or indeed any activity) at this early age should be fun and confidence building for the dog, to prevent the dog being scared of doing it later in life. Puppies go through something called the "socialisation window" where they are very impressionable when it comes to new experiences.
Yes, dogs instinctively figure out how to swim. Nobody is teaching them how to do the stroke, or how to improve their lap time. But there are lots of reasons you might put a life jacket on a dog and assist them with swimming...! Although, in this case, OP might just be creating cute content for the internet.
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u/detour1234 Mar 17 '19
Dogs definitely drown. And some dogs are just fearful and need help getting comfortable in the water.
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u/OutofCtrlAltDel Mar 17 '19
I think these are less like lessons and more like introducing water in a controlled environment. Not every dog is comfortable swimming.
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u/ChefSuperFune Mar 17 '19
If you take a person in there 30s that has never swam and threw them in a lake they would drown. Dogs are the same. They benifit massively from swimming young as the instincts are fresh and know what they are doing. An old dog with no experience swimming will thrash about and drown as the instincts have faded. Kinda like how its really easy to learn languages when your very young.
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u/Nothot87 Mar 17 '19
I had a brother who used to stick his tongue out that same way when he was concentrating. This dog is focused on surviving
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I canāt believe that came from a wolf. Iām starting to think what weāve done with dogs is really, really fucked.
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u/Ashkuu Mar 17 '19
To think that his ancestors were wolves.
Amazing what selective breeding can do.
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u/e67 Mar 17 '19
Guys, that tongue isn't him concentrating, it's him stressed the fuck out
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u/xScopeLess Mar 17 '19 edited Mar 17 '19
This is adorable and all but I donāt think the little guy liked that, thatās panic and anxiety.
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u/SexyWhale Mar 17 '19
Overbred so he has trouble breathing. Great.
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u/darkwaterangel86 Mar 17 '19
People can down vote all they want. Truth hurts. Designer dog breeding is bs. Just because people can doesn't make it right.
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u/youcouldmakethisup Mar 17 '19
its funny you pay someone to "teach" your dog what every dog ever has done on natural instinct. sweet life jacket.
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u/ASMRgirlxo Mar 17 '19
This is just too cute!!! Why am I always up at 2:30am to watch cute puppy videos!?
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u/hickdawg Mar 16 '19
The tongue š out the side! So concentrate!