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If your dog sails, canoes, or rafts with you, he ought to wear a PFD.

by Nancy Kerns

When someone first mentioned doggie life jackets to me, I’ll admit, I giggled. Dogs can swim just fine, for goodness sake.

Life jackets can help you worry less about swimming addicts, dogs who have to be dragged, shivering and exhausted, from playing in the water on vacations.

But then I started thinking about it. Actually, I’ve known some awful canine swimmers. F.B., my sister’s Hound-mix, was one of those dogs. When I was a teenager, I used to take F.B. and my dog (F.B.’s son) to the Yuba River. She liked going with us, and she waded in willingly, but we had to swim alongside her and push and pull her across the river, or she’d bob in place, kind of like a cork. She wouldn’t sink, exactly, but she never quite figured out…

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