Extreme Boat Dog

Boomer the Boat Dog has decided to follow a trend in popular culture that focuses on the fascination with the "extreme" in many different aspects of athletics and life. He has now proclaimed himself : Boomer the Extreme Boat Dog.

The following is a harrowing story of how Bommer, a four month old Miniature Schnauzer, survived a doggy death defying plunge.

It all started with the seemingly innocent pastime of chasing, maiming, shredding, harassing, and ingesting every bug he can find on the deck of Mosey. ( usually it is us he is trying to maim, shred and harass) Daddy was on the bow pulpit and Boomer had spotted an enormous spider just below the gunnel , port side of the bow, which was to be his prize catch to date! The spider hung six or so feet perilously above the dark river and Boomer was determined to make it his. The only problem was that Boomer, in his daily regime of bug hunting had not trained properly for this scenario and neglected to take into account his center of balance as he leaned over the gunnel. His front feet slipped off of the gunnel and he took, head first, the long plunge into the waters of the Sassafras.

Daddy's first clue was a splash. Then he noticed Boomer was not where he had been standing a few seconds ago. To his horror he looked down into the water and saw little Boomers eyes as big as saucers looking up at him from under the water. "Swim, Boomer, swim!" Boomer and the neighbors heard him cry! And he did! All the way around the bow of the boat and down the starboard side trying desperately to find a way out; fighting the wakes. Finally his daddy jumped in and pulled him out.

When I came home about an hour later, I saw Boomer and his daddy sitting in the swing relaxing. I gave them both a suspicious stare. "Why is my dog wet?"

Was Boomer humbled by his brush with death, did he jump into my arms and want to be comforted. No, he's even cockier now- worse than he ever was before. He struts around now "Dude, I survived the puppy plunge of death. I'm , like , an extreme boat dog."