Cool Creek Training

This story is dominating the news, heat has taken hold of the northeast, and taken hold of training. While Boru is settling into a fun little phase where he likes to ignore me and would rather eat bugs, acorns, and really anything else on the ground, I've been taking this heat as an opportunity to hit the water.

Boru's reaction to water has been so-so. The first couple times we've been down to the creek, he would stand on the bank and bark at me. Testing the water a little bit. I'd get him to swim, and we'd go home. He's been getting better, less barking, more wading, more excited retrieving, but it's been a slow ride.

This Fourth of July weekend, I was eager to get him in the bigger water. It might have been too much, too soon. I got him to get his bumper, but the bigger water got to him a bit and he got a little frantic.

With temperatures hitting the mid-90s yesterday, and Boru getting energetic, we went back to the smaller waters. Well, things got good yesterday. He was pouncing across the stream. Swimming and retrieving the bumper with ease. Swimming laps. It was his biggest step in the right direction!