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Learning to swim
Wilbur loves the water but didn’t know how to swim. He hadn’t got the hang of dog paddling, he sank instead.
I got him used to fetching sticks in the shallow water and kept throwing them backwards and forwards. Gradually, I increased the depth of water as his confidence increased.
The beach where I taught Wilbur to swim had slight undulations on the sandy bottom, as he moved further into the water he intermittently went out of his depth and quickly back into a shallow, this developed into a swimming motion that became his dog paddle style.
It is important not to rush the pup or throwing them in the deep end as this can scare them from being in the water.
Once he built his confidence,he started going into deeper water and now swims with me and loves surfing.
Wilbur loves the water but didn’t know how to swim. He hadn’t got the hang of dog paddling, he sank instead.
I got him used to fetching sticks in the shallow water and kept throwing them backwards and forwards. Gradually, I increased the depth of water as his confidence increased.
The beach where I taught Wilbur to swim had slight undulations on the sandy bottom, as he moved further into the water he intermittently went out of his depth and quickly back into a shallow, this developed into a swimming motion that became his dog paddle style.
It is important not to rush the pup or throwing them in the deep end as this can scare them from being in the water.
Once he built his confidence,he started going into deeper water and now swims with me and loves surfing.