My husband and I took Buddy and our other dog on the boat fishing. We saw a 5 – 6 ft shark swim up to the boat. Buddy got so excited he ran and jumped into the water as fast as he could and swam after the shark. He is lucky he is a big dog and made a huge splash to scare the shark away, as well as any fish nearby that we were trying to catch! I actually had to yell at him to come back, and it took the 2 of us to hoist him up into the boat (I was panicking the whole time that the shark would come back). Funny part is, when we stopped at the beach and tiny little fish would come up to his paws, he would back away afraid of them.
Out of all the shaming-worthy things Buddy has done since we adopted him, this one came the closest to giving me a heart attack.
Leslin
woaahh!!! so glad he is alright! yeah our furbabies have some pretty unique ways of scaring the hell out of us sometimes!
jamie
What a cool dog! He must of been so excited to see the shark! Just like my aussie.. He is big and bad and all barky at stuff then he gets scared when he has to cross the room sometimes to get his stuffed toy. Its like another 3 in away sometimes and he won’t go any forward….
COMPUTIAC
That’s because there is a monster in the way and only he can see it.
jamie
sometimes I think he sees my Cody’s ghost.. that was his other mama. She passed in 2011.. So I say that he must be seeing Big Cody’s ghost 🙂
Rocky
OMG I can’t stop laughing. He was just protecting you guys
Judi
but he’s so damn cute – he looks so proud of himself!
Heather
Maybe he thought it was a dogfish shark. So glad he’s ok!
c reeves
LOL maybe thought it was a Catfish and wanted to chase it.
Ray
I know I’d of freaked out big time ! glad it worked out 🙂
COMPUTIAC
His friends at the dog park will never believe him !
LorLu
Hahaha
Brenda
Buddy has about the best life any adopted dog could have and it sounds like he appreciates being a part of your family. Thank you.
KTBYX
WOW. And I thought our 75 lb mutt’s fight with a 2 1/2 foot snake last week was bad. So glad he’s ok!
Pat McDonald
Buddy is such a handsome boy – this is something that my Yellow Lab, Maggie Mae would do! She tries to protect me from things on the TV – it is really hard to watch anything with animals – especially if they are barking, meowing or making any animal noise – she charges the TV and barks at them. Our furbabies are something else! Glad that Buddy is okay and not shark bait!
Andrea
That would have scared me! I’m so glad your fur-baby is OK, and kudos to you for adopting!! I hope the shark repeated his motto “Dogs are friends. Not food” (Finding Nemo reference…. yes, I’m just a big kid who loves Nemo!) and dogs!
Gene Ricky Shaw
What if he actually CAUGHT the shark?
aila
that’s as bad as my lab swimming in a lake at the golf course with a gator swimming towards him…thank goodness he didn’t see it, and he only goes for a “dip” in the water, so he’s in and out
TLG
That is a beautiful dog. Glad he is ok 🙂
Charlotte
My Maggie, the three-legged English Setter (now deceased) would have done EXACTLY the same thing! She chased bears, coyotes, deer (until a buck turned on her and stomped the ground – then she ran like hell!), snakes, mice (and ate her way up the vinyl siding on the house to get at one), and anything else that stood in her way! Sometimes blind assertiveness (read:stupidity) is effective because no-one in the animal kingdom will mess with crazy! Glad you are all okay.
madisonpage
You must teach him to differentiate a shark from a dolphin 🙂
Jessica
haha I just read all these comments they made me laugh so hard! Yes Buddy is quite a handsome boy 🙂 and he does have a great golden retriever life. Since this happened we have bought him a harness for lifting him out of the water since he can’t seem to stay out of it…