'The pool is mine now': 26 golden retrievers living their most aquatic life and loving every second

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• This is for all the naive hoomans who thought investing on a pool was a great idea. Tanning sessions, reading by the pool, swimming in the mornings. Well let me tell you, the pool is not yours, but your dog's. And you should know that by now. Golden retrievers have to be the most aquatic creatures there is on earth. I dare to say they are more aquatic than a whole whale. No fins, no gills in their lungs, no mermaid tail. Just paws, a long furry tail and a dream. One would think that with their size and weight swimming would not be in the picture. But here we are, somehow they will manage to float around a swimming pool for two hours, and no break. 

  Now, with this being said. Yes, they can swim, no they are not chill about it. Golden retrievers have a way of letting everyone know they are getting into a pool. Tsunamis might be formed, cellphones might end on a rice container, books pages might fall apart, clothes might get wet. Let's just say it's a Golden Retriever's world and we are just all living on it. 

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• Another thing you should know, is that Golden retrievers operate on a very simple internal logic: if it's wet, get in it. If it's not wet yet, find a way to change that. The pool was always going to end up being a shared arrangement, the family just hadn't been informed of the terms yet.

  The entry is never subtle. Remember grace is not their forte. No lowering of one paw at a time, no polite negotiation with the water temperature, no standing at the edge building up to it. One moment the golden is on the patio. The next moment the golden is fully airborne and the next moment after that everyone within a ten foot radius is reconsidering their outfit choices. The water doesn't know what hit it. Neither does anyone standing nearby.

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• And what's truly pawsome about goldens in water is the expression mid-swim. Pure, uncomplicated, almost aggressively joyful, the kind of happiness that has no ulterior motive and no end goal beyond the fact that the water is right there and the legs are moving and everything about this is exactly correct. Other dogs swim to retrieve something. Golden retrievers retrieve something so they have an excuse to keep swimming. The ball is a formality. The water is the point.

  The shake-off upon exiting deserves its own moment of silence. Strategic, thorough, and always directed at the nearest dry human, delivered with the energy of someone sharing something wonderful whether you asked for it or not. You are now also wet. The golden considers this a bonding experience.

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• Getting them out is its own negotiation. Not because they're stubborn, goldens are famously agreeable about most things,  but because the pool is genuinely, sincerely, the best thing that has ever happened to them and leaving it requires a level of convincing that scales with how warm the water is. A treat helps. Calling their name seventeen times in a row also eventually works. What doesn't work is pointing at the towel and expecting them to understand that the towel is the destination rather than the obstacle between them and getting back in.

  Same time tomorrow, same splash radius. Same complete lack of apology.

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