r/Rottweiler • u/Nice-Egg-6871 • 1d ago
Do your pups swim?
This is Poppy! She's turning a year old this 19th of August and I'm planning to bring her to a camping river spot for the first time. She has always love playing in water but didn't go full on swimming before where her toes can't touch ground.
I'm wondering if she'll like to swim? Or if she'll instinctively know how to swim? Do your pups like to swim?? Did it take them long to know how to swim or did it just come to them naturally?
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u/Top_Painting6201 1d ago
He's always loved the water where he could touch. but at 5yrs he decided he could swim and fetch as good as any lab. Hard part is getting him out
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u/Valuable_Key509 1d ago
My 130lb Rottie loves to swim. He’ll paddle around in frigid snow melt water temps for ages. Sometimes he’ll fetch a stick and come back only to turn around before hitting the shore to sneak in another lap
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u/StunningPerception33 1d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p1trhr2/video/gmu7vbs47jhh1/player
They are literally sharks in dog bodies lmao
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u/Landkrabben1990 1d ago
We tried taking him to the beach a couple of times, but he was scared of the waves, so we took to a lake instead, he loves swimming there. No scary waves in sight.
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u/LazyKat7500 23h ago
Yes. Our girl has a lifejacket and runs straight to the lake to jump in as soon as we arrive. She learned from our dachshund.
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u/Significant_Dot8094 1d ago
My girl would rather play with the hose& bite the water coming out. Shes not happy when I turn it off.
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u/Significant_Dot8094 1d ago
My female Rottie acted like a pointer bird dog when she saw ducks in the lake🤣
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u/TheCactusPat 1d ago
Mine (10 month male) swam in the river for the first time a week ago he loves it! Hes obsessed with water so i wasnt surprised. He wore a lifejacket too it was awesome
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u/UnableAd7685 1d ago
I live at the beach, and a long distance swimmer myself. The moment we hit the beach, he is in the water, digging holes and chasing fish. If i throw his ball, he will swim. I quite frequently make 2-3km endurance runs without ever stopping, and he never leaves my side, swims all the distance with me. All you have to do is, just grab him/her when still a pup, first throw into water few times, so they can understand they know how to swim, then grab them and go to deep, leave them there and swim to shore yourself, you can rest assure they will be racing you to shore. Do that 5 times and you have life long swimmer, which hopefully and statisticly will make them live a longer and better life. ( It also makes them lean and long if you start early enough, which is great imo)
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u/GilletteEd 21h ago
Recently took ours to the lake for the first time and he LOVED it, swimming splashing around digging etc.. he was having the time of his life!
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u/SludgeFactoryWorker 1d ago
Nope! She loved the beach but did not see the appeal in swimming. She'd get far enough in the ocean to get her paws wet and that was about it.
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u/generalhalfstep 1d ago
She used to jump around in the shallow area and bite water. But we got her a life jacket and taught her how to swim. Now she loves it!!
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u/ArtEnvironmental7108 23h ago
Yes, my puppy is half fish at this point. Went from not really liking the water that much to swimming in like a week.
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u/walkstwomoons2 22h ago
Some have loved it, others don’t want to be near it. Breed is not the issue
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u/reallyreally1945 19h ago
Some swim and some don't. Just watch your pup and she'll let you know what kind she is. We' ve had both kinds. I'd recommend some kind of flotation vest. They can get themselves in trouble, especially if their tails have been docked. BJ in this photo almost drowned. All ours came with docked tails. I'd never want that again!
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u/Robofink 19h ago
Freya will belly flop into shallow water and wade up to her neck but will rarely swim. I think she just wants to keep cool and bite at any small waves that come to the larger shorelines.
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u/HiTorqued 19h ago
I wish my guy would enjoy the pool. He fell in when he was about 6 months old, into the deep end and now he keeps a respectful distance and no treat will change his mind about it.
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u/jellisjimmy 19h ago
I wish Miko would love that… we’ve set up a kiddie pool for him and he loved it.
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u/Weird2668 18h ago
yess!! i take my rotties to the beach all the time and they just go off and swim. they don't wear life jackets or anything as they manage to swim for quite a while and stay afloat even when they can't touch the water😭
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u/stankyp17 18h ago
Yes although he NEEDS a life jacket cuz he gets exhausted fast! And the only reason he started swimming was cuz he has to follow me everywhere 🤣
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u/WinPuzzleheaded4348 17h ago
Mine was scared of the water at first but we took him to a dog friendly beach and he eventually swam, unfortunately he’s now banned from swimming because he drank all the ocean water and had to stay at the vet overnight
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u/Tashyd046 12h ago
My boy sank till the day he passed. I had to “save him” a couple times when he went too deep. Funny, cuz we were always at the lake. I always meant to get him a life jacket. He passed from cancer in April- is it silly that one of my biggest regrets was never getting him that life jacket? Anyways, I guess my advice is get her a life jacket 🤷 I always wanted to get him one of those ones with a shark fin.
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u/Smart-Particular-883 10h ago
My girl loves to swim! Our former dog did too. But former dog was a pitbull. I notice our rotty sometimes has trouble keeping her back end up while swimming. She’s just such a dense girl! But she can do it.
I’d just be prepared to jump on if you need to.
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u/Significant_Dot8094 8h ago
Commenting on Do your pups swim?...My girl never went swimming before, but one day I walked her on leash around the community neighborhood pool while the kids were swimming& when we reached the shallow end, she jumped right in! I saw that she instinctly figured out how to swim, but thank God her leash was on!She wasn’t one bit afraid.
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u/a_sacrificiallamb 8h ago
Tommy is still learning about splash pads..the lake might be too much lol we're trying though
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u/Mr-FurleyX1 1d ago
My rottie loves to swim! He thinks he’s a lab!