Ha. Very cute. We have the opposite issue, a Lab mix who is a disgrace to the name. Won’t go in the water above her elbows. This summer I lured her onto a tree trunk in the river, and I had to wade back out and shove her in the water to get her to come ashore.
And b-a-t-h - I don’t know how she knows, but she always knows.
“Ha. Very cute. We have the opposite issue, a Lab mix who is a disgrace to the name”
Ditto, our Black Lab is half Dalmatian and hates any body of water. She loves hunting down varmints like lizards and the occasional mouse in the backyard, so she is all Lab there. Surprisingly she tolerates baths only because she just loves being toweled off and diving bombing the grass when done,
We had a pure bred Cocker that we could not keep out of the water. His little sister, a Cocker Shitzu mix would barely go into the water and would bark and bark for her brother to come back. He would ignore her and just keep on swimming. Years late when he passed we got another Cocker, a female this time. and it is the same story, she sees water and jumps right in.
Dogs always seem to know the word bath. I’ve seen some hysterically funny reactions from canines at bathtime on America’s Funniest Videos.