SWIM Tank

[widerange]

Widerange, I would say what you describe is hypothesis as it's something you've never done.

Widerange, what if you swam the dog up and down a river for 2 hours, and you did it for longer sets of time. What if you were able to ultimately swim the dog for 2 hours straight? If you limit yourself from trying anything, you stay trapped within your own man-made box of ideas. Now, I'm not saying you could swim a dog for 2 hours straight,
because as I've said, I've never utilized the swimming in a keep. BUT, if you were, I'd say that's a pretty tough thing
to do, and while you dog may not be in 100% shape, hell, what dog ever is?

I though I covered the fact that it was just my own thought on swimming without you saying anything at all. But once age yes I haven't used swimming in a keep although I yardboy under a kennel for awhile that worked dogs at swimming more during a keep and this is what I seen with his dogs. A few other people I know have used it in different ways from lakes to homemade boxes and although the dogs,
owners,keeps,ect. Changed it seemed to always pan out the same way. So yes I haven't done it cause I seen it used from the start of my involvement in dogs and to me it doesn't work as well as it should or other types of work would have done better. Again swimming 2hrs is hard work no doubt about it but to me for that dog to swim 2hrs straight you are conditioning it for something it's not going to do in a hunt. Most shows don't last 2hrs (Cali jack your percentages on times would be useful here or the added search to peds. we talked abou) & and if a hunt does go 2hrs a dog in a swim keep was trained at a slower/lower level of work for 2hrs it simply won't hold up to what is being asked of it during a hunt. Swimming a dog 2 hrs straights to me is like asking a spirit runner to train in cross county then compete in a 200m dash. Your doing the work and it's impressive but that doesn't make it right for the show. Give me a flirt pole and a incline landscape over swimming anyday