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i was tossing sticks for my dog in the river and sometimes she would dive a bit if it sank. so what if there was a ball that had a changeable ballast. when thrown in it might sink to just a few inches, or maybe it could go down a foot or so when the bitch gets good at it.
Fish catching doggies.....
http://www.dogbreed...tuguesewaterdog.htm
"...the Portuguese Water Dog has aided Portuguese fisherman for many centuries. He herded and caught fish..." [Marassa, Oct 04 2004]
Dogs already scuba
http://fozbaca.org/.../03/scuba_dog.shtml
[theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004]
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Hm. You could train your dog to catch fish. |
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Some breeds already do. Link. |
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Now we need some canine SCUBA gear... |
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Personally, I'm still working out the visual of a dog herding fish.... |
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[RS], I’ve seen canine SCUBA gear in action, but I don’t know if it’s commercially available. I’ll try to find a link. The head gear works much like the old fully enclosed equipment though, so they can’t actually grab on to anything. |
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OK, [IVnick8or] just found a link for us. That’s similar, only in the setup I saw, the dog gets connected to your tank instead of a feed on the surface. |
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Sorry [IVnick8or], that was my fault. At a glance the picture in that link appears to have a surface feed for the dog. The one I saw in action had a much shorter connection. |
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Retriever breeds would love this toy. Agreed, it's badly worded, but croissant none the less. |
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Several years ago, I had a retriever who loved to fetch objects from underwater (with amazing precision, I might add). She loved doing this so much that she eventually began to drop rocks, etc. into the water for herself to fetch. I soon had to discourage the behavior, since it was giving her terrible ear infections. I would have paid for a good set of water-tight earplugs for her, if they had been available. Can we work on that? |
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No. Do not use earplugs on a diving dog or yourself. |
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A danger with teaching a dog to SCUBA dive (though it would probably amuse my dog): if you went deep enough and then came up again, the dog might hold its breath and die because the air breathed into its lungs at the bottom would expand and possibly rupture a lung. Divers know to breathe out as they go up, dogs might not. |
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