More retriever help

[Ray]

I never had a dog that was scared of water.
When my last dog was still squatting to piss, I was throwing a dummy
out and letting him retrieve it. I was throwing from a shell road that
was real high, so it was easy to throw pretty far. I chunked it too far
and it landed on an island. He had only picked up from the water or
on dry land. He would only swim around, he didn't go on the island. So
in all my infinite wisdom, I didn't want to lose the dummy, I chunked a
rock from the road towards the island. He didn't see it hit the island, so
I would chunk it so he would see it hit the water. I thought I would
chunk them farther and farther till he got to the island. Wrong.
The first rock hit the water, he went down and didn't come up for around
10 seconds. I thought he was drowning. He came up for a couple seconds
and went down again. He was looking for the rock. I like to never got
him to give up on that rock.