Introduction to Water

Around 4 to 5 weeks, weather permitting, we start to introduce the puppies to water in a small pool. Sometimes the puppies will happily go in on their own and other times they need to be placed inside. If after being placed inside, they want to hop out then we let them. Most of the puppies will learn to love the water eventually, but we never force them to do anything after the initial exposure. They want to play in the water? Awesome! They only want to drink from the pool? That works too!

We never want to create fear in our puppies so we always listen to how they tell us they feel about new experiences before proceeding. However, just because they don't like something today doesn't mean they'll feel the same way in the future so  we will always encourage them to try again at a later time.