Schnoodles love Water!

You might remember a post several years ago about how Maya the Schnoodle loved to play catch in the ocean.   This summer I received another post about how Pukah learned to swim.  Here is the letter.....

I thought we'd send a fun summer update on Pukah  since he has discovered a new way to have fun and cool off.  We decided that this was the year to teach him to be a water-dog so that he could enjoy the pool with us.  At first he didn't want much to do with it beyond getting his feet wet on the steps.  We took a page from good old Cesar on the Dog Whisperer and used the leash to pretty much gently force him to follow us into the pool.   For the first 10 minutes there was a lot of flailing and not much swimming.  But all of a sudden he calmed down and could almost see him think, "Hey, this is kind of fun!"   Suddenly he was swimming with purpose (and a lot less splashing!) and that's when the fun really started.  After 40 minutes of throwing a bumper into the pool for him, we had to force him out of the water so that WE could take a break.  This will definitely be a fun way to work off some of that energy without having to worry about this muggy heat.

 Many people do not realize that Schnoodles are water dogs.  This is because poodles were originally bred to be water retrievers and Schnoodles do have a lot of poodle in their genetic background.   On top of being a 50% Schnauzer 50% poodle mix, the Schnauzer already has poodle in his genes.   The Miniature Schnauzer was originally created by breeding the Standard Schnauzer with the Poodle and the Afenpincher to get the smaller size.   So in reality there is more of the poodle in the Schnoodle background then you might realize.

So go ahead and give your Schnoodle an opportunity to enjoy the water.  It sure sounds like a lot of fun everyone involved!