Puppies First Outing

Warning: LOTS of pictures...
We took the pups to the lake yesterday for the first time.  They are eight weeks old and we would like to condition them to enjoy water and maybe swim when they are grown, too.  I don't know if we accomplished anything.  We brought along their mom, Breeze, too because they know her and she does swim some.  On hind sight, it wasn't a great idea to bring her.  The pups were obsessed with following her around and she doesn't listen to us all that well.  She was running all over the place on the rocks and they had a hard time keeping up with her so they were panicky a lot and cried most of the time.  She only got in the water once and since they couldn't keep up with her on shore, I don't think they ever saw her swim.  We brought the pups each individually in the water, and they are good swimmers, but the stress that their mother caused them did not set them up to enjoy themselves at all.

How they traveled to the woods/lake.

Running around on the trail to the lake.  We had the little house dogs along, too.

Starting the steep descent down to the lake.

There are puddles in the rocks which made for wet puppies before they ever got in the lake.

They were all trying to keep up with mom, but as you can see, with only one pup here, they had a hard time of it.

Front to back: Opie, Donna, and Jax.

Breeze, Tara, Juice in the water.

Jax, Opie, Gemma, Clayton, Donna

Clayton.

Juice.

Juice.

Juice and Jax.

Spike-house dog.

Shorty and Brute-house dogs.

Tika-house dog.

Spike.

Juice.

Gemma.

Gemma.



Opie.

Donna.

L.-R.-Tara, Jax, Donna, Clayton, and Spike in the background.