Swimming?
 

I guess its alittle early for this but I bought a doggie life jacket & I'm excited darnit lol. So who's yorkies like swimming & tell us some stuff. We have a pool & I am anticipating trying it...

Last summer Jazz was recovering from hip surgery and needed to swim for therapy. My daughter took him to my sister's pool. She said he hated it, LOL. Hope your baby loves swimming!

Reesie loves our pool. The only thing that gets annoying is she guards the diving board. For some reason she starts barking like a mad woman when someone jumps off the board. She has her own raft she floats on. We buy those rafts that have the soft mess center so your partly submerged in the water. Texas heat in August :eek: She also likes to lay on the steps to stay cool. We really have to watch her though because if someone just runs and jumps in from the side..... she is using right behind them diving in also. She can dive in head first. She loves to put her head under the water to eat our pecan leaves. I can't wait until summer to see if Abbie our new baby will take to the water. On a serious note...DON'T leave your baby unattended because they can get forget how to get out and panic and drown very easily. Our pool has an iron fence around it separating it from the rest of the yard. I didn't get her a life jacket, but I've seen people out on the lake with their boats. Abbie is going to be alot smaller than Reesie so she might need one. Most are amazing swimmers. Sorry this is soooo long, but we can't wait until summer this year. Congradulations on your new pool and I hope your baby loves the water :D :D :D Here's a pic of her standing on the steps cooling off.

Pinky hates the pool, we put her in, and she cant even swim, she went right under poor thing.
But a life west, cool idea!

My Chanel loves to swim with my lab, she thinks she can do whatever she does :rolleyes: that includes swimming in the sea, and swim after the ball or sticks, so she wears her lifejacket, and is on a roll up thingy leash. One of us is always ready to jump in incase of emergancy ;)

We have a boat so we take ours swimming at the lake. Every year they have a dog day at the Beach Waterpark in Ohio and we take them there also

Where in Ohio??? Thinking this sounds like a fun roadtrip!!!

BTW, Ginger loves to swim! I don't know about Bernie yet.

Its in Cincinnatti about a 5 minute drive from the Kings Island Amusement Park. It is great they have all kinds of contests and activites for the dogs to do. They can also go iin the wave pool and swim or sit on a raft. We had a great time and Our dogs loved it. Jewels won a best dressed contest. We recommend it for anyone wiith dogs. We were shocked by how many dogs and dog owners were there. They have it in early September the last Sunday they are open

I have alittle boy that enjoys swimming and my little girl is not so sure. I also have one of the rafts that has the mesh for them to stand on. She is okay with that and will ride on it okay but tries to jump off ifit gets too close to the side. My boy likes riding on it and will just chill. I did take them to the lake last summer and both of them ran out into the water and swam. I think as long as they can get in and out on their own my girl would do better. Perhaps I need to add a doggie pool ramp for her this year. It is always fun to watch them run at top speed and root in the yard trying to dry off when they get out. I always throw a couple of towels on the ground for them to dry themselves on but both of them end up rooting in the grass too and getting grass stains on their little cheeks.

Logan swims in my mom's pond all the time. Usually he just splashes along the edges, but I think he would actually swim if we were in there with him. He makes me really nervous though because he likes to submerge his head & I'm always sure he's drowning,but he pops right back up after a few minutes. We plan to go our friends lake cottage this summer so I'll have to work out some kind of leash system so I can keep track of him. I might get one of those hands free leashes.

We had a scottish terrier when I was a kid that couldn't swim at all. She would sink like a stone. When we build our pool I was only 3 & i accidentally knocked her in. My brother ran over & grabbed her collar & held her head above water until someone came & lifted her out. I still remember it vividally it was very scary.

Do they have to be on leashes? That sounds like so much fun.

We had that same problem with drying off. We took out all the grass around our pool area and put plants with MULCH. We finally have taught Reesie to dry off with a towel that we put on the patio. Before that she would run into the mulch and OMG :eek: what a mess. Then she would jump into the pool. Now we lay the towel down when we first go into the pool area.

We had ours off leash and no one said anything to us. It is a great time. They also have movie Saturdays where they put a big screen out in front of the wave pool and show movies. In the winter they have a winterfest. We love that park we have season passes

What a great idea. I wish we had something like that around here. We have been discussing vacation ideas and we both agree that the girls are going with us. Maybe a road trip in your direction. Thanks for telling us about this.

I took my boys on an overnight kayak trip last summer. I bought them life jackets! They looked sooo cute in them, everyone on the river was just laughing hysterically when we went by! 2 tiny boys in bright orange life jackets. They DO NOT like to swim at all... but a couple times they did jump out of the kayak into the water on their own. Mostly I think it was bc they forgot that it was water when they jumped, then panicked when they hit the water! :D I'll take them again this year and see if they will enjoy swimming a bit more now that they have done it before and they are a year older now!

Sorry I dont mean to hijack this thread but here are some pictures from Last years Dog day at the Beach Waterpark.
http://www.marchbanksfamily.net.invi...&st=0#entry107

Oh how cool is that!!! Loved the pics at the waterpark. Som friends of ours from Ohio tried to get us to meet up with them there with our son. We never did and now he is older now and probably wouldn't want to go. Maybe I will take my pups. (Won't he be jealous) Do they do this every year in September?

Yes they call it their " dog days of summer day" and it is the last sunday they are open

Wow, that's great! I'm putting a note on my calendar!

I loved the pics of Chachi and Jewels too! They're beautiful yorkies!

Pool Party meet up
 

Hmmmm Maybe a YT meet up in the Making. :)

heres lexi in her life jacket

Awe things like this make me sooo jealous!! I can't wait until Buddah is ready to go outside and play with other doggies!

Ashley

chachi those pics are great, but i want to ask one thing to u all, plz dont take me wrong i dont wont to hurt any ones feelings, but is it advisable to swim with these much dogs in the same pool? i mean u knows that ur dog is clean and disease free. but wat if other's not, wat if they have some spreadable skin disease:eek: , i know that chlorine will kill most bacteria but is it still safe to do that, i do swim with arya in lake near my country home but wat abt many dogs in one pool and u:confused:

layla is so funny.. she enjoys the beach where she can gradually go in the water.. .pools. . not so much... here are pictures from our vacation this christmas... i had to put her in to cool her off.. otherwise she wanted nothing to do with it... probably because she fell in by mistake!

We have a local lake/beach I wouldnt let my dog, kids or myself get in it. So much bacteria. But I would be more comfortable w/a pool w/chlorine. Most people that would have a sick dog they are not caring for are probably not going to pay for them to go anywhere. But people like that will go to the local lake (free of charge)& let their dogs & sick kids in, or them w/their questionable sores & dirty bodies, ewww, plus I have heard of people pooping & peeing in the lake-yuck. My cousins use to go to the lake-had constant bladder, kidney infections, always had strep, stomach viruses & fevers and they would talk about seeing poop floating in it. I would feel safer at a clean pool where you can at least see a turd in the water...I'm gagging now, ewww

Exactly! All the dogs that were there were very well behaved too. The people who were there were dog lovers. I doubt you would see anyone there that didnt take care of their dogs.

in my country home we have our personal lake and so no one else can swim in that:D , but u are right about those conman lake, its possible:eek: , and now i clearly understood that, who can pay for their dog and will take to the pool, of curse they will be sure caring their dogs like we do:) they all will be spoiled babies lol:p if any pool day in my place defiantly i will take my boy;)

mine love love the pools. you have to be very careful. i have had to run out (even with no clothes on) to pull them from the pool. mine is an above ground and they could climb the ladder and jump onto it. also, twice my muffie got water intoxication (very scary) and had to be in the hospital twice for that. just make sure if they are outside, watch them.
we had a member last year loose their yorkie due to the pool.
they do love the water, that is what makes it so dangerous.