Water hobby

Today we had pretty sportive day again. First we had agility training with irish setter Pipi and after that we headed to do our new hobby - water-rescue.

Dry practice - Pipi and Aapo

Headed to the water

Swimming...

... and swimming

Drying himself

The aim for the water-trainings is to get Aapo enjoy and get fond with the water. Aapo's very first experience last year was bad - he played with a friend and headed to water, he dived into it and started to swim. Because of the experience he now is very careful and don't want to jump into water anymore that boldly. So now we train and I try to make the water familiarize to him and make it fun to him. The water-rescue trainer said that Aapo is very careful and he just need to swim a lot to get the feeling that water isn't that bad. Also we now practice jumping in the water. We go as far as Aapo's feet reach and then with treat I get him to jump after the treat - that should also make him more confident, that the ground under him won't disappear. And then when he get the confidence we start to practise jumping a bit farer, that he needs to swim. So for now we just enjoy the water and practice with the good weather as much as possible..

You find my water-training pictures here. Greta's owner's pictures here and here. Poppy's owners pictures here.