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Posted on 09/23/2014 8:46:36 AM PDT by Gennie
Bella just wasn’t ready to go home.
A YouTube video posted by Laura Gibbs shows her German Shepherd Bella’s hilarious reaction when her owner tries to get her out of the water.
Bella’s cries that she didn’t want to leave were ultimately successful.
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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.
German Shepherds are just the best dog ever!
Many years ago we had a Rottie-Shepherd named “Bruiser”. NO fence could contain that dog. Over the fence he’d go every morning, and run down to “Markham creek” for a swim in one of the various pools formed amongst the rocks. He’d come home soaked. He “talked” to us about his adventures in the wild sounding considerably like the Shepherd in this video. He passed on of a heart attack at seventeen years. He was a remarkable dog we miss to this day.
That, my FRiends, is my remaining dog’s Doppelganger.
Right down to the bitching and pitch of it (Shepherd, too. Looks spot on like her on my small phone display). Weird.
Mine sounds like an abused, screaming child when left in the car alone. Needless to say she didn’t go in the car very often these days, the way many cops react.
Love her to death...
“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,
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Extremely cute video......my lab loved the water. We live in the woods of Idaho. When we went out to explore, the first thing Tasha would do was find the water source.
I once tossed in a stick at a creek up here she dove under water and came up with a huge rock in her mouth, heck it was the size of a loaf of bread. I still have it. Dated it, call it Tasha’s rock.
Sooo good! I miss my granddog, McClane. He’s a shepherd and talks just like Bella on the video. Son just got a black lab mix youngster from the shelter to keep him company, her name is Jade.
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.
Oh I very much fear the same thing.
There was a dog park along the Mississippi River in New Orleans with a tiny little beach area where people let there dogs swim.
There was reported to have been 4 dogs lost to gators right there, so I never let mine in the water.
Nature is without mercy.
I have also wondered of dogs are capable of being infected by those brain eating amoebas that go up the nose to the brain.
Silly people!
She was obviously trying to communicate something very important to them.
Personally, I think she finally found Timmy.
;D
The amoeba thing, I understand dogs can get them.
Thanks for posting Gennie, I really enjoyed watching that. What a vocal dog, lol!
I’ve thought about you and your loss.
Too adorable! Bella needs a big ((HUG))!!
Reminds me of my German Shedder. (Rescue Shepherd mix ;)
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