I would never reccomend putting a
GP in water any deeper than their bellies.....wether they like it or not.
Your
GP was probably swimming to stay alive! Trust me, the very few people who have said on here that their
GP's enjoy swimming need to sort out the facts of possibly why. Either their enviromnet was way to hot for them at the time or they plopped in by accident, or they were trying to get away from an even scarier situation.
Trust me,
GP's are not swimmers. Please allow them to cooling, very shallow water, but no swimming please. :0)