Misa the Diving Dog

Occurred on June 16, 2023 / Malta

: "In August 2019 I was looking to adopt a dog local sanctuary. Went to SPCA and filled up a form of what I was looking for. In brief, I was looking for an energetic puppy. Misa was the third dog they showed me and immediately showed a great bond, making my choice quite obvious. When I took her for her first swim, she was so scared and scratched all my body to hold on to me. I kept taking her by the sea but to play on the rocks with her favorite toy, of course a stone. One time I threw her a stone and ended up in a puddle of water and to keep playing, she put her face in the water to get the stone. I was quite amazed as she had phobia with water. I tested her and threw the stone in deeper puddles, which she kept getting. Once I was in Gozo, where Misa was rescued, and saw a guy looking attentively to her. Later he approached me and said that she was rescued from his quarry. She was the puppy of his dogs and one day in winter, the quarry got flooded and most of the puppies died. He even told me the day she was born which all added up. I gathered from where she got her phobia when I first took her for a swim. I’m glad I helped her to overturn this phobia and potentially break the world record for the dog that free-dived with no equipment the deepest any dog ever dived. So far she easily dived 4.5 meters."