Video Tutorial: How to do an open turn

Inspired by this recent video for human swimmers, I bring you "How to do an open turn in three easy steps." Pool time is limited, so an efficient turn will let you get more laps in.

1. Swim towards the wall at a slight angle, extend a paw to the wall
2. Push your body parallel to the wall, moving along the wall several inches and lightly tap your front paw again
3. Push off with your back paw

More training videos

Back by popular demand, more training videos. I think that you can easily see that I'm swimming with greater efficiency and power than before. Oh and I have no idea who this dog is.

In my next life, I'll be a toy tester. . .

I'm what some might term an "agressive chewer." Toys, especially stuffed toys, don't last too long around here. Mom got me this really great snake. As you can see from the description, the toy dubs itself as nearly indestructible and able to withstand "a half ton of pulling fun." It's been my favorite for awhile. My friend, Frank (who lets me be really bad) came over the other day and I guess we must have done more than a half ton of pulling fun. Mysteriously after his visit, I was able to penetrate the previously impenetrable snakeskin. One thing leads to another and then. . .





I guess it was not so tough after all.

I am not a slacker.

I am sure that many of you were thinking that I have been slacking in my training. In fact, I was on the IR. I tore my paw up at my last swim session and needed to take some time off. The good news is that I'm better. The best news is that I did it without a trip to the V-E-T. There is a fine line between acting sufficiently hurt enough to get extra treats and getting hauled off to the V-E-T. For the dogs in blogland, if you hear V-E-T, do something bad - pull on the leash, run around the house, beat up your brother. The humans figure that if you're well enough to do that than you don't need to go the V-E-T.

Anyways, I had a good swim session tonight and will be back running this weekend.

Taking a beak from the daily dog news link

Blog fans,

I got rid of the daily dog news link. My hope was that I could find one good or funny or heartwarming dog news story per day. Oh sure, there's been the occasional dog saves family from house fire or other good news. But a google news search on "dog" most commonly leads to stories like this or this. It's too depressing. So I'm taking a break. Google news need a happy filter.

If you want daily happiness, go here.

What was he thinking?

I like swimming long (with my support crew), but this is a little odd.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/01/02/fl.dog.rescue.wear