Sven threw the stick over the high grass and into the creek with a splash! This was immediately followed by a distinct 'KAPLOOSH! as the smaller of the two dogs, 'Dazee,' and 'Cubby,' hurtled herself off the bank and far out into the water to retrieve it; 'retrieving' being a far stretch of the imagination, for Dazee just grabs the stick, swims to the other side, deposits the stick there and then swims back eager for another dive. This dog is the Border Collie/ cross dog we thought was water-shy. Cubby is a Lab/Chesapeake cross and born to the water; she has always leapt into the water with all-knowing abandon, but not Dazee. No Dazee is a latent water lover. Her preference was to merely run along the bank at high speeds catapulting her compact muscular body across beaver runways and rocketing along the undulations of the creek bank as though on a roller coaster track; she had blinding speed. But it must have occurred to her that she had been...