Dog Swimming Review

Fred Hassen delivers (A post from an internet bulletin board, concerning teaching dogs to swim)
IP: 207.200.116.130
Posted on June 9, 2005 at 09:05:09 AM by Corsified

I remember Bud posted a few weeks back about wanting to teach Fritz to swim without being so frantic in the water. Well, as I remember Fred Hassen replied that he could have him swimming calmly within 5 minutes.

Well, to cut a long story short I went round to Fred’s place to work on a bitework problem I was having with one of my dogs (which, I might add, he was able to help me with, thanks Fred) while there Fred offered to help me with my dogs frantic swimming style. Well holy smokes, if he didn’t have my dog swimming, doing laps up and down that pool of his in about 45 seconds flat, yup, seconds not minutes. Another session or two and the dog would be doing retrieves and directional work in the water. I won’t go into Freds training methods as I know he prefers to show his work while training dogs or at seminars, rather than discussing them on the internet. But I will say this, the man delivers. I brought a dog with me that had some pretty good obedience training on her and Fred was able to point out a few things right away that needed to be improved. I left there with a slightly bruised ego and a bunch of homework (ha ha.) The moral of the story is, if you want to hang with the big boys you’d better train, train, train.

Once again thanks Fred Hassen. Now if you would just stop talking on that cell phone for five minutes we could have a nice conversation, hee hee.

Dave Stephens