Sing, the great swimmer!

picture taken in Lyme Regis

I don't know if there is another sheltie is as mad as Sing when comes to water/pond/sea? I have never seen a sheltie like him that would not get out from the water when he has a chance to get in.

This began when he was 11 weeks old. We took him to Lake District for a week holiday. We were out walking everyday, up the mountains, down to the seas. When he first saw the sea, he almost went straight in without thinking. I was so panic when I saw him walking towards to sea to fetch his ball, I shouted at Colin to "fetch" him back but he seems happy and no problem getting into the sea and get his ball. We have to stand back and watch to make sure he is alright but in the other way, we encouraged him to fetch more balls in the sea.

He continues to love swimming, whenever we are out walking and he sense there is a pond/lake/sea nearby, he will run towards it and we have to catch him up later in the water. He will beg for a throw of a ball or stick so he can fetch.

It is ok when the weather is warm but we are so afriad to go anywhere with pond in winter. There is no chance that you can get him out of the water and I don't want to see him shivering from cold. I remembered very well, in winter 2004, we have a habit of getting up very early on Sunday morning and make some coffee and drove to Richmond Park, sometimes the gate has not even open yet! We will walk from the carpark to the pond to see the swam and duck and of course Sing will straight into the pond before I say NO. He will swim and try to round up the poor ducks and then swim back to us to throw him the ball. We were enjoying that but also worried that he will get too cold. There is nothing we can do to keep him out of water but we decided not to go near any water in winter.

Here are some photos taken in Lyme Regis.

who is fetching the ball, me or daddy?

what's up dad?

Oh No! I don't like surfing.

I want to go back to mummy.