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October 9, 2013

I May Need To Invest In a SCUBA Tank For Eko

Last Friday I posted a video about Eko teaching himself to bob for dog toys that sunk at the dog beach.  As a number of people pointed out, Ridgebacks are known for their utter disdain of water, but apparently Eko did not get that memo.  In fact, it appears that
Last Friday I posted a video about Eko teaching himself to bob for dog toys that sunk at the dog beach.  As a number of people pointed out, Ridgebacks are known for their utter disdain of water, but apparently Eko did not get that memo.  In fact, it appears that Eko might have been Jacques Cousteau in another life because he is now in love with diving. Rhodesian Ridgeback, adventure, marking our territory, dogs, funny

As soon as we hit the beach, Eko heads out to chest deep water to search for treasure worth diving for

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Last week Eko would only dive nose deep, as seen above, but this week he appears to be much bolder

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Eko is a dog on a mission and to get his prize he is willing to put nearly his entire head under water

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Check that, he is willing to put his ENTIRE head under water!

If Eko keeps this up it looks like I’m going to have to make an investment:

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Hopefully they come in Eko’s size (Photo by Gene Alba)

An incredulous onlooker asked me how I taught a Ridgeback to go under water.  I told him the truth, “I didn’t!”

Comments for I May Need To Invest In a SCUBA Tank For Eko

  1. Lol! Wow. Look at Eko go. Whee wouldn’t do it but it looks like you think it’s lots of fun!

    Happy Wednesday

    Nacho, Noah, Buddy & Basil
    xxxx

  2. Kuruk says:

    You’d look cuuuwooooowooooote in scuba gear!

  3. Victoria says:

    Wow – Eko is so adventurous – what was he diving for? Treat or ball?

  4. Oh I’m sure he will be the next Eko Ballard :o) …but you have still Mr. U-Boat in your circle of friends :o)

  5. Emmadog says:

    He might be up for a scuba adventure! Can’t wait for the post about Eko in scuba training 🙂

  6. Ingrid says:

    I’m looking forward to the scuba diving video 😆

  7. Marcela says:

    Will, as always, you and Eko are a riot:)

  8. Shana says:

    I think Eko has been hanging out with Riley too much – it is definitely a Vizsla behavior. Hobbes loves to ‘drown’ his toys in the pool so he can go down and get them 🙂

  9. Boomdeeadda says:

    Your Eko is a ‘One-of-a-kind’ uuber cool Ridgeback dude. Maybe he’ll really find treasure and you can all retire to paradise together and be a scuba family…oh, whoops, got all daydreamy there. For now, have fun at the lake.

  10. Misaki says:

    BOL I would love to see Eko in that!

  11. Dottie Wells and Tuffy "The Fat Cat" Wells says:

    As much as Eko loves the water, he may not be convinced to hauling scuba gear around on his back. It would be great if he did agree to it, but until then see if you can find him a “Parrot-Head” shirt, ala Jimmy Buffet. I’d loan him one of mine, but he wouldn’t want to give it up once he starts getting attention from all the girl dogs. Females just seem to go for surfers.

  12. Mayhem's Mom says:

    I had no idea Ridgebacks were known for their disdain of water because mine LOVES it. The beach, the lake, sprinklers, you name it! We took her kayaking and she made a game of running as fast as she could to the front of the boat and diving in, then swimming to the back to get back on and repeat. Her face when she jumped was pure joy. Definitely no fear or disdain of the water in this Ridgeback’s life!

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