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After Tragic Dog Death, Grieving Owner Warns Others About Aquatic Center
Dnainfo.com ^

Posted on 04/08/2017 6:42:59 AM PDT by Altariel

WEST TOWN — During a swimming lesson at a canine aquatic center in West Town, a dog drowned and his owner alleges her family's pet was not aided with CPR that could have saved the dog's life.

"What started as an exciting swimming lesson, ended in a tragedy and a traumatic experience that my family and I will never forget," said Paula Cano, a Maywood resident whose 3-year-old Doberman, Diego, died around 9:15 p.m. on March 31 at Doggy Paddle, 1330 W. Willow St.

Cano said Diego — who had never been in a swimming pool but enjoyed wading in the water at Montrose Beach — initially resisted, and that was her "first red flag" at the start of the lesson in a pool with Diego's "cousin" Piper, a boxer mix, who was with another instructor in the same pool.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: chicago; dog; doggieping
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To: Covenantor

What does their fecundity have to do with any of this?

People can name their dogs whatever they want and I applaud creative names.

How many Fidos, Spots and Dukes does the world really need?

I would not call them “clueless progressives” based on the names of their dogs or lack of kids, which may not be something they’re even capable of having.

I would call them stupid effing dumbasses who did not even know the breed they owned, and maggot bait, for standing around watching their dog suffer.


21 posted on 04/08/2017 7:24:29 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Salamander

I had a buddy who would kayak up at great falls years ago. His chesapeake bay retriever would swim along side him for hours.


22 posted on 04/08/2017 7:24:39 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: I want the USA back

I’d like to the see the breeder they got the Dobermann from, sue them for involuntary dog-slaughter.


23 posted on 04/08/2017 7:26:00 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Salamander

Both the painters they named the dogs after were flaming marxists. Frida also had a mustache that Wyatt Earp would have envied.


24 posted on 04/08/2017 7:26:58 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Fightin Whitey

No you are the cats servants!


25 posted on 04/08/2017 7:27:07 AM PDT by Reily
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To: nobamanomore

Deep chest, narrow body, single coat, lack of body fat.
[no buoyancy]

Any dog “built like a hatchet” is going to have problems swimming.


26 posted on 04/08/2017 7:27:50 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Organic Panic

No, they stood there like mindless sheep, watching their terrified dog struggle in terror and did nothing.

They admit it.

“Should have been a red flag”

Ya think?


27 posted on 04/08/2017 7:29:27 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Salamander

My daughter in law’s family lives on a lake, they have a boxer that will swim for hours, but that is not the norm. I have a Malinois, she will jump off the boat into 50 feet of water like it’s nothing. My old dobe wasn’t much for getting in water either.


28 posted on 04/08/2017 7:30:52 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Form follows function.

I dearly wish people would never force a dog to perform outside of the purpose for which its breed was created.

There’d be so fewer problems.


29 posted on 04/08/2017 7:31:21 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Altariel

are there any words to express how stupid this is?


30 posted on 04/08/2017 7:34:39 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Odds are they didn’t even know it.

Mine are always named for things like favorite songs and mythology.

A lot of thought goes into their names.

Because...”if you give a dog a bad name...”

;)

I never understood the fascination with Frida.
No matter her politics, her “art” sucked.


31 posted on 04/08/2017 7:35:20 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: nobamanomore

Mals have great buoyancy, thanks to their coat, and swim well, in spite of being ‘hatchet shaped’.

Just one little thing like that can literally make it a ‘sink or swim’ situation.

Crazy about the Water Boxer.

:D

They sell flotation vests for non-swimmer breeds now.

Being that my dogs, like me, are mountain-bound hillbillies, odds are we’ll never need such things.

:)


32 posted on 04/08/2017 7:38:34 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Sequoyah101

This was posted last night on my Dobermann forum and yes, there are words.

I’ve used many of them, since it popped up on my feed but those words would get me ZOTted.


33 posted on 04/08/2017 7:39:49 AM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, his reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Salamander

What’s wrong with Duke? :-\


34 posted on 04/08/2017 7:39:52 AM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: Altariel

Very sad.


35 posted on 04/08/2017 7:40:17 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Steven Scharf

“I had to click on a second link to figure out this is in Chicago.”

I wish the form used by original posters had a required field for “location” of story because most posters aren’t courteous enough to put the location in keywords - they seem to think everyone knows where “Springfield” is.


36 posted on 04/08/2017 7:40:56 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Altariel

Some breeds take to water like they were born to it, some are indifferent but OK with it and some hate even being wet and putting them into a pool to “teach” them to swim is actually tormenting the animal. People need to stop trying to conform their dogs to some predetermined image they have of what that dog should be. Different breeds have different traits. Learn those traits and adjust your expectations, if you couldn’t be bothered to learn them beforehand. Beyond training a pet dog social niceties and house training them, things every dog can and will learn, stop trying to force a square peg into a round hole.


37 posted on 04/08/2017 7:45:32 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Salamander

“Pugs and Bulldogs are too front-heavy to swim”

Ours doesn’t so much swim as plummet.

He never goes past his chest. Just stands there being a Pug.

L


38 posted on 04/08/2017 7:45:37 AM PDT by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Salamander

Pits don’t usually like deep water, but mine is from a line of dogs whose specialty is diving and retrieving. You have to build up their condition if you don’t work them year round, and I keep some fat on her as well. She was bred for extra lung capacity for diving. You can’t just throw them in deep water after a lazy winter and expect them to function like Champs.

Some dogs like water, some don’t. Mine learned to swim in rushing mountain streams.. Loves to body surf. The is friends with a pack of 6 other mixed breed dogs, but was the only one who loved to swim. She tried hard to encourage her friends to join her but they would have no part in it! Bunch a wusses!

Some people shouldn’t own animLs, PERIOD. Dogs do drown.


39 posted on 04/08/2017 7:52:23 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Let's Roll

It should be obvious. There’s only a few dozen of them.


40 posted on 04/08/2017 7:59:52 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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