Kennedy And His Soul's Love Of The Sea - IMRAN™

Kennedy And His Soul's Love Of The Sea - IMRAN™

Sometimes people think a dog owner can make their dog sit in a way that evokes a particular feeling or projects some specific personality.

My beloved, precious, rescued German Shepherd Dog Kennedy came into my life at the start of 2019. He was initially so afraid of the water—likely from traumatic experiences—that he would sit by the barbecue grill twenty feet away even if I went into the swimming pool.

I had not heard him bark even once, nor go into any kind of water. To get him into the water, I waded into Tampa Bay and tempted him to join me.

That was six months after his coming to his forever home with me. It was so funny to see him come up the water and run off to avoid getting wet. 

It was also the first time he barked… and his bark was incredible! Ironically, he barked at me, as if saying, “Come out on to land and play like a real master!”

But then he got bolder and walked closer to me. I could see his expression of “WooTooF!” when he felt the strange sensation of water buoyancy on his body. 

Within a few minutes, his natural ability to swim kicked in, literally. And just like that, in one experience, he transformed into a sea dog.

He literally HAD to go into Tampa Bay water every chance he got, regardless of the weather. He even started wading into the pool and grudgingly would even swim.

But I did not have to ever pose him to show the sea had became a part of him. You can see this in almost all his photos by the seaside. 

This picture is actually a panorama of six handheld iPhone photos taken on April 28, 2022. Kennedy sat absolutely still overlooking Tampa Bay so it looks like a single shot image.

We were at my Symphony Isles neighborhood. I captured it from several hundred feet away while playing with then-2-year-old K2 on one side of the empty lot.

You can see Kennedy sitting at the far end, casually gazing at the bay. The sea was in his soul. Kennedy and his love of the sea were real. Best Dog Ever!

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