...as I had an insane time with Colliedog today!
Playing fetch in local country park, we were near a bridge that goes over a sort of mini gorge. There is a river at the bottom of it, thankfully shallow at the moment. As I somehow managed to bounce the toy off a tree and into said river, where it wedged on a rock.
But not just any toy. Oh no. Redtoy. Colliedog's bestest friend ever. Dog horrified. Me already scrambling to get to toy. Slide down bank cursing at nettles and broken glass and step into river fecking freezing to rescue it. Get toy. Hurl it back up to Colliedog. Crawl back up bank bashing knees on rock and collapse at the top.
Colliedog deposits Redtoy upon back of my head, sits down and happily awaits resumption of game...
Anyone else have adventures on their walks?
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Ullena · 23/05/2013 23:29
Another river related one! Middle of summer two years ago, hot day (we must have had one!)
We have a fairly shallow river running over our fields. Young dog, puppy at the time, is straight in, splashing about, having a whale of a time. Older dog has never even considered going in the river before so DD1 decides to gently lower him in from the bridge and see if he likes it, especially as he is a sheltie, covered in fur and panting hot.
He just sort of looks at us and floats off gently down the river! Didn't try to swim, move struggle, nothing. Just looked at us with a surprised "Oh, I'm floating away" look. Young dog splashed round him, barking at him to swim back, but to no avail. DD had to leap in, run along the river bed and carry him out. All I could do was stand on the bridge, rendered completely helpless because (and I don't usually admit this in public) I have a phobia of nettles.
We've never let him near the water since! He is obviously not a water dog 
We were walking in a large country park with two of our dogs and a friend's large, bouncy, staffy/lab cross. All three were happily chasing a frisbee when it was picked up by a sudden gust of wind and hovered near the edge of a hillock - or so we thought.
My two thought better of it, but our friend's daft dog did a massive leap towards the frisbee and disappeared over the edge.
We weren't too panicked, believing it to be just a small hillock, rather than a cliff-edge and expecting him to reappear any second - wrong! 
Fortunately, when we got to the edge, there he was, sat on a wide ledge about ten feet down ... between two very surprised sheep!
Thankfully, from the ledge there was just a steepish incline, rather than a sheer drop. Our friend had to walk in a big loop round the edge, then sidle up the incline. At which point his dog leaped off the ledge, galloped round the edge and back up to where we were waiting with our dogs, leaving him standing there with two apparently disinterested - and very bored looking - sheep.
The weirdest thing was there were no other sheep anywhere to be seen - if there had been the dogs wouldn't have been off-lead. We told the guy operating the carpark where they were and he said he'd inform the farmer - apparently the flock had only been moved from that part of the park the day before. The really daft thing was that they could easily have got off the ledge and back up to the top - but they just didn't seem to realise it - they weren't at all perturbed by their canine visitor either. 
Sorry i have nothing to add but am crying with laughter at musicposy's dogs look of 'oh, im floating away!'
Hahahahaha can just picture it
Thanks for the giggle!
Ddog1, a mini Schnauzer, when a puppy, ran into a small lake following a dog she was playing with, the look of sheer panic on her face when the water took her weight was priceless! After a couple of mins she got back to the shallower bit and since has never gone in any water past her ankles.
My then boyfriend's Mum and Dad's Lhasa Apso (sp?) jumped into the middle of a stagnant pond covered in green slime and sank without a trace. Boyfriend stood screaming "do something", so I jumped in and pulled her out. Boyfriend then refused to let me and the dog back into car because we were so dirty and we had to walk back!
I have no idea why I married him !
vjg, that happened to me, many many moons ago when our whippet, sheltie cross was a pup. We were walking with five dogs in all. All the others - all adult dogs - carefully skirted the 'bog of eternal stench' that we came upon, but not her - oh no. She literally launched herself right into the middle, disappearing from sight and eventually resurfacing looking something akin to the creature from the black lagoon.
In my case it was dh that had to wade in and pull her out. She always was a dog of very little brain, bless her.
Dh insisted on taking his stinky trousers off when we got back to the car and was then wholeheartedly unimpressed with the idea of letting the dog get in. We had to wash the worst off with bottles of mineral water, then rub her down with the clean bit of his trousers. He had to drive home in his boxers, praying we didn't get pulled over for anything - then run for cover into the house from the car when we got home - as we lived in a terrace, so didn't have a drive or garage!
Happily mine will go in any water (daft Labrador), but a few months ago, on a walk rounded the village, he spotted a dog across the road, going round the corner. As we got across the road, he trotted off, on his extended lead, and as he went round the corner got the lead wedged in the brickwork. Stuck absolutely fast, and no amount of me pulling could free him.
Thankfully I had my phone and got my DH to come and rescue us. In the meantime, Happiestdog and I stood on the corner nonchalantly trying to look like we were meant to be there, and not let on that we were stuck 
Checklist:
Water bad
Sheep perplexed
Terror leads to levitation
Flexi leads are evil
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