Aparently after everything that I have broken laterly I now have a broken dog. The usual walk where Tara one of my rotties, rolls around like a mad thing next to a steep sided dyke (for those Scottish people that's a ditch NOT a wall!) the said dyke is about 8 feet deep. You can guess the rest, we ran back I dropped to the floor as Tara is trying to clamber out, managed to grab her coller and pull her out, Pete was the otherside working out how to get into the dyke if I didn't succeed. I would say well it taught her, but no hope the thick dog. Although the look on her face was priceless!
Lea :)

Been there, done it a few years ago, with my old Golden Dandy. Exactly same thing! (Never known a Golden with more than half a brain yet!)

No our old Pepsi Bless her  (RIP) once decided the place the have a good old roll was on a steep river bank. She went in head first, upside down !!! I can still see those 4 paws disappearing under the water.
Aileen

Nope. George was trotting along the canal path then just fell in. I scooped him out and carried on. He was rolling on the grass to dry off and rolled straight back in again. This kind of thing happens frequently...

We prefer the term 'simple' in our household and we definitely have a simple lad! He has learnt to open the washing machine door. He them sits, facing the open door and paws at it to varying degree's so it springs back and (eventually) smacks him in the face! He can do this five or six times before he gets bored. Then he toddles off to play with the empty washing basket and he repeats the whole exercise again, with the side of the basket until I tell him to "Packitin"! :) My other dog and even the cat, sit watching him and I am sure I have seen them 'shrug' and slowly, start shaking their heads :)

Sounds like my Henry, he fell in the river twice within 5 minutes on a walk once! He also leapt over what he thought was a low stone wall on a bridge in spite of me shrieking to stop and discovered in mid air it was a 6 foot drop on the other side - according to the startled people in the field below, he just rolled over and ran off - my heart stopped as I saw him vanish! I always said he had 9 lives like a cat lol.

LOL, last winter Oban and I snowshoed across a frozen wet area and reached a creek to hike alongside, a place we can only get to in winter when the ground is frozen.  Large flat chunks of ice along the bank provided a platform right along the creek edge but when Oban got down on one it cracked off and began to sink.  Oh my gosh, I didn't know whether to panic, laugh out loud or get the camera out and record a video because as his icy platform sank and cold water began to inch up over his toes and feet Oban just stood there looking down in seeming bewilderment and doing head tilts.  Left head tilt, right head tilt.  "Jump OFF" I yelled at him, "You're sinking."  Well he did jump off and managed to clamber up the bank which was now further above his head than when he went down in the first place.  And then, of course, after being nearly submerged he took a zoomie through the snow on top of the bank.  Silly nut, but I was wondering how I'd get down that bank to rescue him if I had to.

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I have one Marianne :-) He learns everything really quickly - one or two goes and he has got it :-) But he is also the most active Golden I have ever known but has an off switch too so the best of both worlds with him :-) Nine this year and still competing at agility and getting in the top places. Following his op last year I was going to retire him after a three day show we had booked months before and that was going to be his final show - so he won his class just to let me know he wasn't ready for retirement yet and it was a jumping class where he beat all the fast collies so he was definitely trying to tell me something :-)

We were having new glass put into our patio doors. To describe the doors they were 2 double entry doors in the middle and on either side a 9 inch opening that was also waiting to be glazed. The doors were wide open but my 'very smart' dog made a run for the small opening at the side of the double doors. He ran with such force that he got stuck in the 9 inch gap and had to be pulled and pushed to get him out. Why he didn't use the doors I will never know.
We rolled about laughing for weeks.