Young dog crossing water

I had one about 13 years ago that was like that, was everything you could ask for out of a dog but scared to death of water, she would sit there and bay where the hog swam the creek, after about 4 or 5 times if doing that I got aggravated with her and kicked her in the rear shoving her into the creek, she swam to the other side picked the track up and went and bayed the hog, after that day I would swear she was part lab, she would get in my pond and swim for hours on end behind my ducks trying to catch them and was always about 5 feet behind them, at times I would have to go in after her so wouldn't wear her self down, if you have access to a pond have some one hold
The dog on one side and attach a rope to it, you go to the other side and starting coaxing the dog to you and start gently pulling them into the water with the rope ran across the pond, talk kindly and encouraging to the dog as it's swimming, dogs react more so to the tone of our voices than the actual words, keep working them like this and most eventually come out of it, I used to have a hog pen on the other side of my pond and as soon as they swam across they could see and smell the hogs and it was always game on, now a days I take my young dogs as pups walking through the woods and creek bottoms when I'm out scouting and looking in my lease and make it a point to cross water that will require them to swim...

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