How to teach my dog swim?

June 5, 2012 10:37pm CST
My older brother have two dogs that he would like to teach to swim. One is a black retriever and the other is a brown lab. I know that they should like water, but when we first moved into our home with a pool, they both fell in a different day. As you can probably tell, they are both scared of the water and now wont come close to the pool. How do i get them to like the water again and get them to swim ?
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• Italy
11 Jun 12
dogs normally love water, maybe they find a pool not natural because the water is suddenly deep and your brother should bring them on a beach (if there's one not far from his home). So dogs could "know" water little by little and appreciate it.
19 Jun 12
yup,i think your rught