It's summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means swimming for the dogs, of course.

There are two types of dogs when it comes to swimming, those that are crazy about swimming and

those that really would rather not. And today's podcast is for both groups of dogs. Super

important for both of them.

Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. Now, if you've been following along

the podcast, you know, we do things different.

We train everything differently than most people. And swimming is no exception. Because I actually

want to teach my dog to swim. You know, there are some dogs that as puppies, they go, oh, I water, I love it,

and they're off they go and you go, yay, look at my puppy is swimming. Isn't this wonderful?

Actually, it's not so wonderful because dogs who just naturally want to swim turn into dogs who

really, really love to swim. Well, Susan, I don't see your

point. Stick with me on this. Because dogs who just love to swim are going to leave you,

leave work, leave anything they can to go into the water if there's water nearby. I've been at

agility trials where dogs will leave their run and just go into a pond.

I've been at an agility trial where at the end of the day, somebody had to borrow a canoe

to go out into the pond to get their dog because the dog would not come back when they're called.

Your recall might be great on land, but a dog who loves a swim, that is a different kettle of fish. Pardon the pun

because it was a really, really bad one. Is it really a pun? No. And why are fish in a kettle

anyway? So, dogs who don't have stimulus control over swimming, they actually could get into

some danger because a lot of these dogs will, you know,

start biting or barking or maybe biting at the water and that may redirect onto another dog.

We might have somebody calling somebody something about their mother and army boots and then

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