Swimming Lessons with Jerky

The scene:  Two rubber rafts floating on the crystal clear water of an Endless Pool.  One raft has a clear bottom and will hold a child or multiple poodles.  One raft is made to hold a six pack but is used to hold jerky.

The characters:  Two humans, six poodles

I am trying to introduce Raven to the pool and our poodle boat.  This requires treats.  We are building up muscles on several of the poodles for various reasons.  This is enhanced with treats.  I am teaching non-water loving poodles that swimming is fun.  This  requires treats.  We teach all of the dogs where the Scamper Ramp is so they can enter (requires treats) and exit the pool (no treats needed).

We are just getting ready to get into the pool to start.  There are a lot of treats in the treat boat.  There are no people in the pool or even on the deck yet.  Katie spots the treats.

It seems the swimming is not bad lessons have paid off.  Katie runs down the ramp sees me climbing into the pool as fast as possible and takes off swimming.  With a head start and more legs than I have, Katie wins.  She goes for the treats.  In reaching into the treat boat and grabbing as many treats as she can before I get there, Katie overturns the entire boat.

My crystal clear water is now filled with floating and sinking jerky.  Lovely.  Needless to say the day's lessons were cancelled in favor of diving for jerky, vacuuming jerky, and skimming jerky bits.  sigh.