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06 Jan 2014, 4:30 pm

According to this article, whenever dogs swim, they are just running underwater.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/ ... 140105.htm


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06 Jan 2014, 6:19 pm

And when humans swim, we're actually flying underwater. :D



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06 Jan 2014, 6:27 pm

They never have "the dog paddle" as part of the swimming in the Olympics. :lol:



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06 Jan 2014, 10:40 pm

Aprilviolets wrote:
They never have "the dog paddle" as part of the swimming in the Olympics. :lol:


The freestyle?



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07 Jan 2014, 1:27 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
According to this article, whenever dogs swim, they are just running underwater.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/ ... 140105.htm


Well duuuuuuh!

It took a team of scientists (with stop action photos) to conclude THAT?

Next someone will get a Nobel Prize for discovering that water is wet!