Dawn, if you have a look here (link below) there are pools all over the UK. Some better than others. I've used 2 - one v v bad and one excellent - can tell you more about what to look for if you like. I had a non-swimming Weim last year and this year she's doing lab-like water entries - totally due to hydrotherapy.
I've tried sutton park & Bracebridge has been the most successful lake because it's got a gradual entry and he'll go in up[ to his neck but won't take the final plunge and take his feet off the floor. He swam a couple of strokes with me holding him under the belly but will not do it on his own. If he can't walk in gradually he refuses point blank to enter the water so these pools might do the trick
This is why I like the horse pools Dawn, they go in gradually down a slope (or not in Arrow's case, but then he never does anything, gradually!)
Also it means that I can observe how they are swimming, if they are using their body correctly and if they are tiring which you cannot see if they are swimming against jets.
I am looking forward to when I can sew their badges onto their swimmers! _________________ Nothing could be finer than to work a Weimaraner!
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: swimming
Hi Dawn
Welcome to the board. Beecham would only go down a slope too & wouldn't go out of his depth, but he copied Peter Hobson's Megan a couple of weeks ago and will go in most things now if the bank is not too steep (some caution is fine for me). Will yours copy another dog or another Weimeraner? Copying worked with Beecham last year too, when he wouldn't go in the water at all, only he forgot how good a swimmer he was over the winter - bit of a wimp about the cold, it seems!
There is a hydrotherapy pool in Leamington Spa which is supposed to be good. However, I think it is a canine one.
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with me holding him under the belly but will not do it on his own. If he can't walk in gradually he refuses point blank to enter the water so these pools might do the trick
