He should have used the doggie-paddle.

Dog Trifecta completed.

Smart dog. Made it look all accidental like.

Darwin triumphs again.

How many dogs can't swim anyway?

good riddance.

Ah, this is sad. Dog must feel like shiat now.

I can see the whole jumpin in after a cell phone thing, but if you don't understand that basically all dogs can swim, you're an idiot.

All dogs can swim. A lot of men forget they can't swim. Darwin has his way of working things out. She needed a new boyfriend anyway.
Can you swim? Tell yourself the truth.

If he had the dog on a leash either it wouldn't have been able to jump away from him or at least he could have just pulled it right out. It's a hard lesson to learn.

Woohoo! My first green light!

I've been to this stretch of Lake Erie many times. I believe that the guy may have jumped in the lake and dissolved.

"two go out but only one comes back, it's either you or him"

rcain: Smart dog. Made it look all accidental like.

billyboyxoxox: She needed a new boyfriend anyway.

Wait! So, the girl and the dog are now getting it on?

Woof!

That is sad. Nothing good happens after 1 A.M.

It's a hard lesson to learn.

He didn't learn anything, he's dead.

A couple of days ago in my neck of the woods a woman was brought in to hospital severely mangled after she wrecked her convertible at 70mph attempting to avoid a squirrel.

A squirrel.

I'm having difficulty telling apart a bleeding heart and internal bleeding. She demanded at the scene that the EMT's try to resuscitate the rodent while she bled all over the highway.

She'll recover but may not regain full use of her legs.
I say Darwin is slacking off.
The squirrel was pronounced dead at the scene.

You are more important than an animal. Unless you don't think you are. Then you're not.

How do you get to be 29 and not know how to swim. Jesus, I was swimming when I was two. All that aside, let's say you are retarded, or you are afraid of water, or something, but, somehow you didn't learn how to swim. How do you all of a sudden forget this important fact? I don't get it? Alcohol, maybe?

That's why I have a cat. No dogs for me.

The Coast Guard is in Cleveland?

Maybe you should drive
The freaky part is that this dog's past four owners have drowned in a similar fashion.


Thanks, you owe me a new egg sandwich, the last one came out my nose...

My kids tore up my garage last week to get out a ladder so they could get their cat down off of a neighbor's roof. Have you ever seen a dead cat on a roof or in a tree, wasted away from thirst or starvation?

And yet, I can't seem to get them to clean the gutters.

Missouri goes one further and publishes all of this on the state's website. MO Sec of State Bluebook

Sorry, wrong thread

Me: "Are there dogs that can't swim?!"
Teh bf: "I don't know, but obviously there are men who can't."

Wow, this happened in here in Pittsburgh last week, except is was the Allegheny river... Dog chased some ducks into the water, owner went out after the dog, dog paddles to shore, guy drowns... Weird.

Damn it, this is all Cleveland! Are we the new Florida or something??

/Look, our river caught on fire. Isn't that enough?

My dog is just learning how to swim. She swims with her mouth wide open, which was really unfortunate when we recently went to the beach. I think she must've swallowed about 2 gallons of saltwater.

/doggy sprinkler - it was coming out of both ends
//don't worry - she's fine, and a little bit wiser

TFA doesn't say - but wonder if the guy at least took his shoes/clothes off. I was always amazed at how much everything weighs when wet.

So does the dog get everything the guy owned? That could be a lot of kibble.

The great lakes are quite cold all year round.

He may have not realized how incapacitating that is, or realized it and thought his dog would freeze.

I have never seen a dog that couldn't swim unless it was weighed down with something though.

/I didn't do it, it was a "doggy backpack"
//He got out, just had trouble with it full of water.
///Dumb dog.

Just culling the herd.

co-conspirator
I've been to this stretch of Lake Erie many times. I believe that the guy may have jumped in the lake and dissolved.


I LOL'ed at that comment.

/Grew up in Lorain, a suburb of the Mistake by the Mi-Lake.

You never hear a story about someone jumping in after a cat. Just saying...

LordVger: And yet, I can't seem to get them to clean the gutters.

Solution: Start hiding cats in the gutters.

geetus: I think she must've swallowed about 2 gallons of saltwater.

That always brings on really nice diarrhea.

/Has a yellow lab mix
//dumb as a rock (Me and the dog)

Mods I know this is evil but can we have a darwin tag ??

DC-9 landed short at Pensacola in 1977 or so. Landed upright in the Pensacola River in about 10 feet of water. Everybody fine. Opened doors, waited for boats to come see what the big splash was. Very few fatalities but one was the mother missing her child. Jumped in the water, swam around looking, drowned. Her kid was safe with someone else.

/Admirable but ultimately stupid.
//Darwin late to the party.

It's a hard lesson to learn.

He didn't learn anything, he's dead.

That's why it's such a hard lesson to learn.

I wonder what he did to the dog to make it want to kill him?

Go Darwin go!

Our late great Springer Spaniel Jack was a great swimmer, but I did have to swim out and save him once. He was getting older and at the time his fur was pretty long and thick. He had swam out a ways but when he turned around he was straight up and down slapping at the water. After he went under the second time I kicked off my shoes and went in after him. All I had to do was get under him and push him up so he could get his bearings. There was no way in hell I could just stand there and watch him drown. I miss that little bugger.

"amusing" tag more applicable.

tradjik wonder if the guy at least took his shoes/clothes off. I was always amazed at how much everything weighs when wet.

And how much extra, would you say water weighs, in water?

Couple Identified in Drowning
Southwest Ohio
Dec 26 2006 8:27PM

A couple believed to have drowned while trying to save the family dog was identified Tuesday by Five Rivers
MetroParks officials as Craig and Patricia Wenner, both 50.


The announcement by MetroParks did not say where the couple lived.

The couple and their two teenagers were walking the dog Monday in a park in Englewood, about eight miles northwest of Dayton, when the dog went into the Stillwater River, Englewood police Sgt. Mike Lang said.


Authorities believe the woman went into the river to try to save the dog and her husband was trying to save his wife, Lang said.


The search for the couple was called off at nightfall. Officials said river watchers on Tuesday reporting no sighting of the couple.

Craig Wenner had been a MetroParks employee more than 25 years, officials said.

Both were found a couple days later.[b/]

Gavino
tradjik wonder if the guy at least took his shoes/clothes off. I was always amazed at how much everything weighs when wet.

And how much extra, would you say water weighs, in water?

You are obviously unfamiliar with swimming with clothes on vs swimming without clothes.

No, very familiar and fully certified for offshore survival.

It's a misconception that clothes/shoes etc. weigh you down in water. They don't weigh any extra.

Should you keep your shoes on or take them off?

might offer protection?
might mess up your swimming?

/lives in a desert. Lots of beach. No water.

studebaker hoch - they now teach keeping them on. Apparently they offer protection, a bit of warmth and a larger surface area for moving water (like flippers)