We found a new dog park today on the recommendation of a friend. The park is located on the fellsway in Medford/Winchester and it's absolutely massive. It's an open field with about 20 dogs running around off-leash. Sachi thoroughly enjoyed his time there and made plenty of new friends. One dog in particular turned out to be Sachi's shadow for most of the day."Omen" the black German Shepherd was about the same age as Sachi and they played very nicely together. As usual Sachi was able to hold his own with much larger dogs, including a few Rhodesian Ridgebacks, the GSD and a Great Dane pup. One treat was seeing Sachi able to get up to a full speed run with another dog. He is FAST.
The real excitement of the day came when we took Sachi to the water. We hadn't seen much from Sachi to indicate that he was going to take well to the water (note previous posts with his hesitation of going into the pool!), but to our surprise he jumped right in. 
Using a stick we were able to slowly extend how far out he would go playing fetch. Pretty soon he was jumping off the side and cruising right out to fetch his stick. (proud parents). He loved it! He would swim faster and faster each time, so after a few times out, we had to call it quits for him.
The audio quality isn't the best, but it was hysterical listening to him snort like a pig swimming back in!
What fun! Glad to see he's finally learned to enjoy swimming--he wouldn't follow Lyca in to the water here. He couldn't figure out what she was doing swimming all the way out after the stick. She does the snorting, too!
ReplyDeleteHe's not as fast as she is--she leaves a big wake! We'll have to meet up sometime for a swimming contest! :-)
Ann
It wasn't even so much like he learned to swim, more like he just decided "Ok, this swimming thing looks fun, lets do that for a while." The video is one of his earlier ones, he got faster as he went along, so yeah, bring on Lyca!
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