Posted on 04/08/2017 6:42:59 AM PDT by Altariel
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.
I had a buddy who would kayak up at great falls years ago. His chesapeake bay retriever would swim along side him for hours.
I’d like to the see the breeder they got the Dobermann from, sue them for involuntary dog-slaughter.
Both the painters they named the dogs after were flaming marxists. Frida also had a mustache that Wyatt Earp would have envied.
No you are the cats servants!
Deep chest, narrow body, single coat, lack of body fat.
[no buoyancy]
Any dog “built like a hatchet” is going to have problems swimming.
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?
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.
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.
are there any words to express how stupid this is?
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.
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.
:)
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.
What’s wrong with Duke? :-\
Very sad.
“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.
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.
“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
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.
It should be obvious. There’s only a few dozen of them.
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