Many people think that dogs can swim, so wouldn’t it be a metaphysical mistake to just meet some dogs that can swim and then assume that all dogs can swim and then take them swimming?

It’s like if one person likes rice and ten people on the side like rice, they think everyone likes rice? Maybe some like steamed buns or noodles?

I also remember an ancient text also has this story: once upon a time there was a good swimmer Yue Guo man, gave birth to a son just a month old. His mother wanted her son to be thrown into the water. Someone asked strangely, “Why do you want to do that?” His mother replied, “His father was a good swimmer, and he must be a good swimmer too.”

The mother’s erroneous conclusion that “he must also be a swimmer” is based on the false premise that her “son must be like his father”.

Can our Chinese Field Spaniels swim? Actually, that’s only part of it, like I’ve seen pugs, Pekingese, and Pine Siskins, they can basically only flop around in the water a few times.

And they’re just one of a vast number of Chinese Field Spaniels that can swim or not, which really involves a lot of factors, but it was just a few days ago that a baby Falcons drowned when they were taken for a swim, and for just a few minutes the shoveling officer was playing with his cell phone.

It’s amazing that things like this happen every year, and not a few times!

April 9, 2019, the drowning death of the black French cattle is not just an accident, it is said that the dog will dog paddle, but in many cases we find that the dog actually does not know how to swim, last summer vacation, a group of us who have a dog to go to Zhoushan to play, only Labrador and Golden Hair dared to go into the water and also swam far, the rest of them, like the corgi, Alaska, Husky and my family’s Samoyed are ignoring the sea, resolutely do not go into the water!

Like a friend’s Labrador was only 4 months old when he saw water for the 1st time, and he naturally dropped in and started swimming then, as if he had done it many times a long time ago.

The Labrador is actually not from Labrador, but from Newfoundland, Newfoundland you may have known, because its fisheries and mariculture industry is globally famous, Labrador in the beginning was called small Newfoundland dogs, St. John’s water hounds, black water hounds, etc., because it is not in the beginning as a guide dog or search and rescue dog now, but was used by the local fishermen to retrieve the codfish, as well as to help remove the fish hook after landing, and also to help drag the wet and heavy fishing nets back to shore, often to go into the water to help their owners to fight fish. assist in removing the hooks after landing the fish, in addition to helping drag the wet and heavy nets back to shore, often having to go into the water to help their owners fish.

And Labrador’s body structure is very adapted to life in the water, it is smaller, but very sturdy, is very strong swimmers, the overall streamlined, and it has a double layer of short hair, there is a thick layer of fleece inside, will allow them to not freeze in the cold sea water, the efficiency of the work is much higher than on the long-haired Newfoundland dog!

And what are other breeds like short-legged dogs or dogs with shorter snouts?

Pugs, French Bulldogs, English Bulldogs, Corgis, all of these dogs are very uncomfortable with swimming, why?

First of all, these breeds have short but strong limbs for short sprints and bursts, which is related to the nature of their cattle herding and bullfighting work, and along with this work, these dogs tend to have close-fitting nasal passages and facial folds for blood drainage, which is especially good for working, but kills them when swimming!

On the one hand, the small short-legged stomping water is not as easy as the long-legged dogs, because the contact surface is small, in addition to the narrow nasal passage itself is demanding to breathe, in addition to easy to choke, so we find that the short-legged dogs in the water flopping particularly strong, but a lack of attention, only two minutes, the dog will choke to death!

Also, swimming is something that a lot of people have to pay a lot of money to be taught by an instructor to learn, so what makes you think a dog is born with it, it’s not a fish?

Just like people who are near water in the South tend to learn to swim, but there will still be a few of them that just can’t swim by nature.

In the kind of places up north where you basically don’t swim in the water, there will be a few people who can learn to swim, but most of them can’t swim either.

Just throw the dog in the water and let him swim? That’s murder!

So how do we determine if our dog can swim or not?

First of all: let’s look at the dog’s breed, generally speaking If the dog’s former job did not have anything to do with water, then it basically does not have the ability to swim (flopping around in the water for a few moments that’s not called swimming, that’s called playing in the water, no arguments, thank you!) , like my sled dogs, they are able to float in the water for a little while, but are very anxious to get to shore.

What are the dogs whose specialty is swimming? The first is the Water Spaniel: Portuguese Water Spaniel, Spanish Water Spaniel, Irish Water Spaniel and Dutch Ruderhound, American Water Spaniel, Shaggy Droopy Eared Hound ……

In addition to the water retriever, some retrievers need to go to the water to catch and retrieve the prey, often also have the ability to swim, like the golden retriever, Labrador retriever, curly-coated retriever, smooth-coated retriever, Chesapeakes Bay retriever, Nova Scotia Duck Retriever, if the dog at home is one of these kinds of dogs, then basically the probability of 95% it is not afraid of the water and can learn to swim quickly, of course, some of them may also be dry ducks, which is a possibility. Of course, some of these Retrievers may also be dry ducks, which is also a possibility.

Second: Tell if your dog can swim from its behavior.

If the dog is not afraid of water, and even likes to roll around in puddles of standing water or mud puddles, then we can first regard them as having access to water, and if they are the ones who see the puddles and avoid them on their own, then such pets 100% do not like water and are not very good at swimming.

Or you can also take the initiative to take your family pet to the pool and see if it wants to go down, which is the first step in teaching your pet how to swim so that it doesn’t resist.

Next: the pooper scooper needs to determine if he really wants to teach his dog to swim.

There are a number of benefits of dog swimming, can strengthen the training muscles, while the pressure on the joints will not be too much, so like some pets after joint surgery in the recovery exercise, will be through the swimming this way, like suffering from hip disease dog, not suitable for intense exercise, and swimming on its joints of the burden is small, the use of swimming can be exercised its muscles.

Swimming also corrects your dog’s externals, which don’t appear due to tiles because of the evenness of the force in the water.

Additionally swimming is much more strenuous for your dog and enables them to burn off energy quickly after exercise.

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