More: Both dogs love swimming, camping, and hiking but water is their first love. Sometimes it's hard to keep them out of the water. These two dogs will swim in pools, creeks, lakes, rivers, or ponds. They will spend all day on the water if I let them Molly had a crainal cruciate ligament tear in her back right leg last year (football players get these injuries too) and it's correct with surgery. However since she swims so much she was able to build up the muscles around her knee so she didn't need surgery because she was able to walk normal after one summer of swimming in the creek. I believe that there are two types of dogs, ones that love water and ones that do not. Both of these dogs are water dogs.