How can such a gracious mover be such an UN-gracious swimmer!? :)

Comment by Fran Griffin on October 24, 2011 at 3:59am

Oh the memories of my old Lotte who spent a lot of time swimming like that.  She eventually realized that she swam better by putting her head down, but I always used  to shout at her "put your head down" when she first went in.

Comment by Melinda Auld on October 24, 2011 at 4:13am

I think it's an Irish thing (or maybe even a Setter thing) because mine do exactly the same thing!  Every now and then, they get coordinated, but occasionally, they revert and try to swim UP lol

Comment by Susan Stone on October 24, 2011 at 4:41am

Great fun!!! The spaniels make is look so easy:-) but I'm sure she will learn with time. Usually if they carry something they find a better balance.

Comment by rob winemaker on October 24, 2011 at 2:04pm

What I did with one of my boys was get in the water with him about waist deep and lightly support his hindquarters while holding my other forearm on top of his front legs. A couple of sessions like that and he figured it out fine.

Comment by Estelle Meiring on October 25, 2011 at 1:14pm

Thanks for the comments, everyone

It's only the second time that she is braving the water deep enough to attempt swimming - think I'll give her a bit more time and see if she doesn't figure things out for herself.

It was such a funny seen, though - we were practically rolling on the grass laughing!

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