01/11/2026
As the days get warmer, we immediately allow our thoughts to travel back in time. To our beloved late Onyx vom Weissen Schwan. The water baby, the swamp monster, the pirate of the farm dam.
Never has a Rottweiler been as INSANE-O over swimming and being in the farm dam, as our Onyx was. Once he was in, he simply refused to get out.
It took wrestling, slipping, swimming, begging, crying and offering "high value" treats from humans to get Onyx out of the water.
Many a time, he would simply take the treat and dive back in (dragging whichever human was attached to the lead back in with him)
Beautiful memories. (And on hot farm days, we SWEAR, we here Onyx heading down to the water