Our wolf puppies are afraid to cross the creek. Rick McIntyre (Author of The Rise of Wolf 8) says that wolf puppies just don’t know they float and intuitively know how to dog paddle. Mothers and babysitters sometimes use toys, like a stick to get the puppies fixated on the toy, they then get them to chase them into the water after the stick.
Note how the babysitter adult encourages the little black pup up the bank on the far shore.
As always we film from a very long ways away. We would never do anything to disturb the wolves. Especially this swimming lesson.