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Old November 13th, 2005, 08:56 PM
toymom toymom is offline
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Is there any way to explain to my Golden

Retriever, that if she swims and is wet that she will not be invited into the house, but if she would not swim then she could come in?
She looks so sad when I won't let her in when she is wet and yucky and I wish I could expain to her that the reason I won't let her in is because she is wet. We have a swimming pool and there is a pool fence - mesh - she chewed it up as a puppy and we wrapped it in chicken wire, but it is only 4 feet and she jumps it. I don't think we should train her never to swim - in the summer when it is hot, it is probably good for her. It is still pretty warm here in north Texas - unseasonably so, but the water is colder than people like and we would not go in there. A friend of mine told me her dog that was half golden used to swim in the creek when there was ice on it, so it seems that cold weather may not deter her. She did not swim much until this summer and now, she does not seem to want to stop.
Thank you, Dana
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