Swimming and The Versatile Blogger

 The Versatile Blogger

Hello!  It has been nearly a year since I posted. Recently I was notified that I had been given an award for my blog, ?? how's that possible?
The Versatile Blogger Award.

It came from another Mudi lover, so thank you!!! I consider that an honor since it came from another like minded individual! Julie from the Moody Mudi blog, gave me the award. http://dogsandgeeks.wordpress.com/

Apparently there are requirements for accepting the award, unfortunately I will refrain from meeting those requirements. But thanks anyway!

Swimming

Now that summer is once again upon us, I am going to try and get my dogs in shape by alternating swimming time with them.  This morning was the first day with Inas.  I had all three of them to the river a few days ago, but the noise level was unbearable (Mudi LOVE to swim almost as much as they LOVE to bark!) and I believe the family living on the other side of the river thought there was some kind of disaster happening! LOL!  So I decided one at a time would be better for everyone. It also gives me more one on one training time, and this is good for relationship building.  Out of all my Mudis, Inas is the worst swimmer.  He struggles to keep balance, but once he grabs the bumper in his mouth, this somehow balances his body weight in the water and he swims with less splashing.  As seen in the short video below, he is breathing heavy also, swimming is hard work!  I am hoping by the end of this summer, he will show improvement. It will be interesting to see if I can keep up with doing this everyday as well!  Not sure, time will tell!!!

Inas Swimming Sesson #1

Playing with the bumper was more fun than actually bringing it all the way to me, until I fell back from the shoreline, and then Inas was bringing it back beautifully!