I missed his first strokes...sniff

Aww, what a big boy! PS -- I love the sig. Lexi would have a blast with him, they could just run for hours and she'd think it was Disney World! 

Thanks!  Janet made the sig for me, she also made a matching one of Monroe for DH to use...here it is:

She is pretty creative - I would have messed them up completely!

 oh I am sorry that you missed his first strokes but yay Morrison!  Bugsy swam once when he was about 16 mos old and then not again until our trip a few weeks back.  He wouldn't go in over his head even with a life jacket.

I was sooooooooooooo pleased to see him swim - now if he would do it more often  we went to the lake with his girlfriend on Saturday and no chance

So Morrison keep it up - I love a swimming happy dog!

oh ad the new sigs are awesome!

Awwwwwwwwwww, drat!  Mowwison, you have to swim again so your mama can cheer you on.

awww - I think I'd be bummed, too!  Happy for him that he learned he can swim, but still bummed to have missed it!

Gracie will likely never swim.  Wade around, but not get in over her head.  If I missed her actually swimming... MAN... I feel your pain.  At least you have a good idea that he can/will do it again.  I think I hear a trip to the lake/pond/river this weekend for Monroe & Morrison....AND mum! 

HA!  We make a trip to a pond, lake or river every day!!  Needless to say, Monroe loves to swim and it's the best kind of work out for him.

DH told me later that Morrison did panic a little bit and came out of the water pretty fast, then went back to wading.  I'll take him to the lake nearby soon, that way I can go in with him.  We live in MN so there are, like, 10,000+ lakes to choose from.

 You know, it's not necessarily a bad thing.  Please bear in mind that I tell you this story to make you feel better LOL.

We knew Ben would swim one day - he's a lab, they swim.  You know this LOL.  But when Ben was very little he hated the water, would dip a paw in and then run away like the water had bitten him.  So one day we were walking through a park that is bisected by a fairly shallow river, and we were near a spot that would provide easy access for Ben had he wished to go in.  DH asked me if I thought putting Ben on lead was a good idea just in case (we were headed back to the car and didn't have a towel with us) and I said "oh we both know he won't go in the water..."

I hadn't even finished talking when...*SPLASH!* and Ben is in the river swimming like he's born to it - which of course he is.  He gets out of the water and is so proud of himself that he jumps up and plants two PERFECT muddy pawprints on my backside, which showed up perfectly on the white skirt I was wearing.  As I walked through the park people made no effort to disguise the laughter.

I'm just sayin...LOL.  Now go swim again so your mama can see, Morrison!

Way to go Morrison!   Now go out today & show mom that you can swim!

Very cool.  I took my 2 little boys (4 1/2 month old lab littermates) to a nice pond to learn to swim and they both decided to fool around anywhere but IN the water.  I took one of them to a WC test last weekend, and he FINALLY bit the bullet and swim.  It was so cool.  He followed mama right in and swam like a champ.

Morrison just will not swim for his mama!

It was hot yesterday so we go swimming instead of having a long romp.  Monroe was, of course, happiest in the water but Morrison would only wade.  Poor guy ended up with a bunch of fly bites along his back.

Ah well...perhaps, one day...

VanMorrison

Morrison just will not swim for his mama!

Oh Morrison don't be like Bugsy! Swim boy swim!

VanMorrison

Ah well...perhaps, one day...

I try and think the same. 

 Hey Karen, do you want Ben for a while?  He'll teach Bugs to swim. 

 Oh I'd love Ben for a while!  But Bugsy CAN swim he just doesn't.  He swam 1st time ever with a huge choc lab named Sammy - a dog we met randomly at the lake.  I couldn't believe it and though by jove he's got it.

But that was when he was pretty young and had only swam a couple of other times - briefly - to chase geese.  Then when we were at the moments he was playing with those people in the canoes and went over the rapids and he was a swimming fool. He went over the rapids 3 times and had some major swims.

But his girlfriend the GR swims all the time and Bugs only goes as far as he can stand and watches her, then takes her stick and they chase each other.  The she swims, etc. over and over.

When my friend and their lab stayed with us we went to the lake each day - once he went after the geese, then he played similar to the way he plays with the GR.

I feel shallow admitting it but it frustrates me because I love me a happy swimming dog.  He will go in every body of water instantly and without provocation but swim - please