Get ready to laugh. Check out a dog’s comical pool maneuver that leaves everyone in stitches. 

At the start of the video, a woman shares that most dogs swim across the pool, but her dog walks. You begin to see a precious golden retriever standing tall and walking with two paws on the bottom of the pool floor. The pup wades through the water slowly and focused. You cannot help but laugh out loud. She tells her pet to come to her, and he continues to walk upright and right through the water. This dog is determined and focused on his mission of getting to his owner on the other side of the pool.

You may have never seen anything quite like this. Most dogs will learn to “doggie paddle,” but this pup learned to take a more refined approach. He is just precious and it causes you to want to get in that pool and walk with him.

Seeing what this furry pooch can do reminds us that God, our Creator, has made every animal and creature on the earth unique. He has a special plan for each one’s design and takes great delight in His creation which He has called good. He also invited us, as His image bearers, to have dominion over the animals. The way that this pet owner has trained her dog and pressed into his unique abilities is inspiring and reminds us of the sweet gift that we can have in teaching and caring for the animals in our homes and around us. 

“Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.” Genesis 2:19