who else has swam for a dog?

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i've had some people laugh at me for the last week now... my brothers fiance and i and tank were at a lake(a very dirty lake) and tank was splashing in the water when he dropped a stick at my feet, i was like,ok, he's half lab right, loves the water so i through the stick. tank ran in and i thiink he got splashed up the nose, cause the dummy paniced and started to beeline it across the lake. we yelled but he wasn't stopping so i stripped down , dove in and swam after him. we were half way across the lake by the time i grabbed him, dragged him around and pulled him back to shore. and to boot ,there i was walking out covered in slime when i truch that was parked there too(and we thought it was empty)fired up and on his way by, laughing said(that is what you get for having a dog). now, i'd swim for anyones dog, but it wouldn['t hurt to hear someone else having a similiar experience.:)
 
had to do the same thing for my chocolate lab when he was a puppy, he took on a whole flock of ducks and was not going to make it to the other side of the lake and I had to go get him. Water was cold too.
Had annother lab years ago in east texas, was on a duck hunt and some other guys were across the way from me. They had a very young dog for his first hunt, to young. Anyway, they shot a duck and their dog went in after it and got lost and was swimming lower and lower in the water. I had to send my dog in to get him. Told the guy he could pick up his dog at the boat ramp, IF he was nice about it. He wasn't being very good to the dog up to that point.
 
There was a local man that drown when his dog went out on a frozen lake fell through and he went in after it last year. I think this happens a good bit and I am always very stern with my dogs when they try to venture onto a frozen pond, or lake.
 
I never swam out to get a dog but I did learn how to spell properly and use correct grammar. Is it too much to ask that people at least use a spell checker?
 
My wife and I would definitely swim for Gracie, no matter what the condition the water was. That is Gracie on my avatar. She is still getting used to the water, I am not forcing it. She will be retrieving ducks in about a year.
 
I had to pull my parents Collie out of a river a few years back. She is big on swimming and can usually just go round and round for hours. That day she must have got cought in a freak current or something. I could see her trying but she just wasnt getting any where and started to make panic noises, then she went under so I just dived right in and swam over to grab her. She didnt make it easy either, she didnt realise i was trying to help in all the panic. I had to fight her the whole way back to land and got scratched up pretty good.
 
I had to teach my Dobermann to swim in a river by walking along at his side with my arm under his chin, forcing him to keep his front paws under the surface of the water as he was raising them too high and slashing so much water into is own face he could have drowned himself.

A friend had a Great Dane bitch who got caught in the out-going tidal flow at the mouth of the river/ocean. She could not beat the fast flowing water and just kept trying to head back to the spot she entered the water rather than try to angle across the flow to reach land.

It was obvious to the two of us that she was becoming exhausted and would soon be exhausted and drown.

"Well since she is my dog I guess I better go and get her!" he calmly exclaimed. So without another word he dived into the river, swam out and across to the dog, forced her to turn sideways and used a side-stroke swimming style to get her to the bank but several hundred meters away.

I would not hesitate to jump in to the surf or river to save my dog but if out on ice I would have to think about it a great deal.
 
Had to fish out a Jack Russel from a river once when I was on harbour patrol with the coast guard. Man was he happy... Owner was very grateful too. Didn't really have to get down to the water. I dropped a gangway net into the water and he climbed right up and jumped into my arms. Clever little guy. I'm not supposed to be touching dogs but they are very intelligent and loving creatures.
 
I was silver fishing on a creek with a deep hole, fast moving water running right out to the inlet. Momma was on the other side of the creek and decided to walk back to the car when my little guy decided to go with her....right across the creek. Got caught by the current and was headed for the big water.....had to drop the fly rod and dive in, waders & all, managed to grab him and make it to the rocks and crawl out. Water temp was 38, air temp 40......was a numbing time before I got to the car. Lost a $220 pair of glasses in the process, but the lil feller was worth it.
 
A friend sent me a photo of the stretch of river where I iused to go swimming with my Dobermann.

It was taken at a serene moment at sunrise. The opening to the Ocean is in the middle 1/3rd of the photo, to the right of the small island:

MudBishopsJune2009.jpg
 
About 8 years or so ago, we were at my folks cottage. Wife and kids out for a joy ride in the boat, and I stayed behind with the dogs. Boat just joy riding in front of the place, everyone enjoying a nice summer day. Dogs needed out, so I opened the door. Our 70+ pound Shepherd ran to the end of the dock, jumped in,and started swimming for the boat which was about 200' from shore. No ammount of calling him would turn him around. About half way there, he started going nose up/but down. Dog did make it to the boat, but was panicked by then. Wife tried to get him in, and was at risk of swamping the boat if she pulled any harder. I hit the water and swam out to them, and grabbed the dog, he panicked again briefly, and I ONLY ended up with a bloody scratch diagonal across my belly. He let me support his belly, and under his neck, and I swam him back to shore like that. First and last time I have ever had to water rescue anything.
 
michdad said:
About 8 years or so ago, we were at my folks cottage. Wife and kids out for a joy ride in the boat, and I stayed behind with the dogs. Boat just joy riding in front of the place, everyone enjoying a nice summer day. Dogs needed out, so I opened the door. Our 70+ pound Shepherd ran to the end of the dock, jumped in,and started swimming for the boat which was about 200' from shore. No ammount of calling him would turn him around. About half way there, he started going nose up/but down. Dog did make it to the boat, but was panicked by then. Wife tried to get him in, and was at risk of swamping the boat if she pulled any harder. I hit the water and swam out to them, and grabbed the dog, he panicked again briefly, and I ONLY ended up with a bloody scratch diagonal across my belly. He let me support his belly, and under his neck, and I swam him back to shore like that. First and last time I have ever had to water rescue anything.
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elkhound got foot hung in collar .i jumped in my snauzer followed.we exited together.
 
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