Do the doggy paddle!

OMG, I feel like a parent whose kid just walked or talked for the first time. For the first time, at a little over two years old, Miss Fine SWAM!!! She really did it! And she’s the one who always hesitated about going into the water! We went into the park for a walk in today’s heat, and there were ducks scurrying into the pond and swimming away and I figured, what the heck, maybe my pups will be compelled to go further into the water if they think they can catch up with a duck. They ignored the ducks, but then I threw a stick out a little further than they were walking, and Miss Fine just totally went for it, doing the doggy paddle and all! She was totally psyched! She would swim out, then come back, at which point Sheffield would try and nibble on her face because he was mad that she was going out further than him, and then she’d run back in and do it all again! And once we got home, she was totally giddy about her new ability, running around the house and barking up a storm, diving into pillows and rolling around like crazy on the carpet. It was so awesome. I’m hoping she’ll motivate Sheffy to just go for it already.