Sea Dog Collar Helps Dogs Float and Swim
When we went to Mexico with our dogs Mr. Meaty and Anna, I worried a little about how they would fare in the ocean. As Mr. Meaty was a pug, I felt he would need help the most should we find ourselves tipped out of a boat, and bought him a little lifejacket. Anna on the other hand is a huge dog and an incredible swimmer and I didn’t think she’d need any help.
After spending three months in Mexico, I really wished I had bought her some kind of flotation device. First, when we would go swimming, she thought nothing of just heading off towards the horizon and would only turn around when called back. I worried that she would tire and get pulled away by the tide. Second, we had an incident where she leapt from a dock to catch a retreating boat and found herself in deep water she couldn’t swim out of. It took a lot of nervous yelling and coaxing to get her up on the very steep rocks at the side. I thought I would watch her drown that day.
The device pictured above is called the Sea Dogg, a buoyant swim collar for dogs that keeps their head above water and helps them to swim. Unlike a lifejacket, the collar is simple to put on and adjusts to any size between 11 and 20 inches.
I think something like this would have been perfect for Anna. A lifejacket her size would have been cumbersome to carry around and this neck collar would have been great for when we went swimming. Perhaps next time I will be able to try one of these out.
Click here to visit the Sea Dogg website!
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