Dog’s minds are strange and unknowable places for us humans. While their desires are often transparent (give me food, give me love, take me for a walk), their decisions are much more opaque. Take this dog, who dove deeper than any dog has gone before all because he wanted a rock.
As his friend looks on, the retriever jumps into the water and dives so deep he essentially disappears before finally re-emerging over 30 seconds later with a giant rock slab in his mouth. What have you got there boy? A companion piece to the Rosetta Stone? More importantly, did the slab call to him from the watery depths, summoning him to fetch it?
Commenters were shocked by how far the dog dove, with everyone agreeing that it was one of the longest dives they’ve ever seen a dog pull off. According to esteemed scientific journal DogTime, dogs can typically only hold their breath underwater for 5 to 10 seconds, which I think makes this dog the Michael Phelps of the canine world. Can we put him in an Olympic-sized pool and see how he performs under pressure next?
It’s not advised to try this at home with your own dogs, however, unless they’re a retriever like the dog in the video, in which case it’s probably okay — retrieving is in their nature, after all. The internet is awash with stories of retrievers who enjoy diving underwater to retrieve rocks, so evidently this is a long-established cultural practice in the retriever community, and who are we to question that?
Retrieve away, good boy.
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