I'm ashamed to say, it was the first time Sophie has seen a body of water. Terrible cause she's 3 1/2! She is very stubborn so is worrisome off leash and has never liked riding in the van. She trembles and gets so frightened. Which is so weird because she's always had steady Eddie Atlas right there with her showing everything is ok and no need to panic. Nope, when a big 18 wheeler goes past she freaks out. But I have worked with her for the past six months on come when called and we feel pretty confident with that now and she was the most obedient ever yesterday. Danes usually hit maturity around 3 years of age and she's settling in to be a nice girl now, not so challenging as her puppy self. Funny because we made the decision to get another Dane because Atlas was the best most incredibly well behaved dog we've ever had. HAHAHAHA!

Anyway, we were so disappointed we didn't have the camera on Sophie yesterday because she stood knee deep in the water and we coaxed and called her and she just stood there for the longest time just staring out, then BAM! She did this huge frog jump with all four feet straight up and towards us. Was the funniest thing I've ever seen! When we finally carried her out to deeper water poor thing went under and it freaked her out, she splashed her way back to shore in a hurry. But she waded back out again so obviously it wasn't enough to deter her. So I borrowed Atlas' Float Coat and took her out to deep water and helped her learn to keep those big paws under the water so as not to splash water in her own face. Practice makes perfect and shes going with us every time so I'm sure before we know it she'll be a champion swimmer!