This is one about Bagel, current pooch.
I think I told it here last year but for you I'll repeat!
She is made a lot like a husky, but bigger in the chest. She has the double-coat.
Anyway, she hates to swim. Once at the edge of a calm city lake her footing slipped and she had to swim a stroke or two. Never again. She just would wade up to her chest and stand there, biting the water! That was funny to watch.
Anyway, she'd never seen the ocean. One time I took her with us. My D was already out beyond the surf, swimming and laughing with her friends. I brought Bagel from the house and we walked toward the sea. Happy dog, no idea what was over those sand mountains.
When we came across the boardwalk over the dunes she saw the ocean for the first time (ROUGH surf that day), and D out in it! Well that dog who hated to swim blasted her way through her first ever waves, getting good and smashed by hem and kept on fighting through the surf until she reached my D and tried to herd her back to the beach. Damned if she wasn't trying to "save" her.
Hero doggie!

Hops