Pits don’t usually like deep water, but mine is from a line of dogs whose specialty is diving and retrieving. You have to build up their condition if you don’t work them year round, and I keep some fat on her as well. She was bred for extra lung capacity for diving. You can’t just throw them in deep water after a lazy winter and expect them to function like Champs.
Some dogs like water, some don’t. Mine learned to swim in rushing mountain streams.. Loves to body surf. The is friends with a pack of 6 other mixed breed dogs, but was the only one who loved to swim. She tried hard to encourage her friends to join her but they would have no part in it! Bunch a wusses!
Some people shouldn’t own animLs, PERIOD. Dogs do drown.
Maybe they should have Googled “Dobermann and water”, first.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/stan-baynes-doberman_n_4596084.html
That was literally the first result of the search.
Great swimmers, they ain’t.