Dennis thought we should take Flash to the ocean today, somewhere like Fiesta Island where they allow dogs. But then we started thinking of the long drive, traffic, parking problems, sand and fleas and we decided we had a perfectly good pond right in front of the house.
Now Flash loves to get wet, but to our knowledge, he has never gone in the water deep enough to swim. So we took him and a tennis ball to the pond and threw the ball in for him to fetch. Ha. He got up to the edge, but couldn't put his feet on the bottom so he wouldn't go in.
Dennis retrieved the ball with a long stick and I took the ball to the shallow side of the pond and tossed it in close to the edge. Flash went in this time and nudged the ball until finally he had to swim to get it. I think he was surprised of his new talent--swimming.
We were very happy that Flash finally went swimming. It was 103 degrees outside, so we went back to the cool house.
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