Woah! I wasn't trying to give you a heart attack. I wasn't planning on completely cutting out the swimming. We live directly on a river, so we don't even need to go for a walk to go there. The dock, we go to, is a couple of miles away, but the river is everywhere. I would never deprive Jakey of his swimming. It is in his soul.

I thought you were saying that his back being wet was adding to his over heating. Are you saying that his back being wet, is not that important, but I need to make sure to keep his underside and pads wet when it's hot?