Without a doubt, the best milestone in water rescue is the boat jump! Sure, saving a drowning victim might be … practical… even heroic (if it were real)… but there is nothing better than watching a massive hairy beast take a swan dive off a boat.
My little hairy 135lb Leo boy learned to jump off the boat last week. My summer is complete; whether or not we pass any water rescue trials in the next coming weeks is irrelevant, my little boy jumped! And he’s going to be a beautiful jumper too, leaping far out from the boat with a great push.
There have been some big disappointments this summer – Ripple’s breeding didn’t go as planned, and my work schedule was so harsh that I didn’t get to train in water rescue seriously – but what I will remember from this summer is Skimmer’s first jump.
