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  I love to swim; but there's a catch.  I won't swim for the sake of swimming.  I will only swim if there is an object of interest to swim for, like a stick or some other floating toy my humans throw for me.  My favorite spot to do this is at Pioneer Park. 
  On Thursday it was different.  My dad was doing some crazy thing with his human friends called "D20 life" so he was busy most of the day.  He did however take me with him on one adventure to a friend's house.  I'd been there before, but this was different.  Dad and his friends were outside, and were playing in a small lake.  It was weird, like it was surrounded by a dock.  They did however have a large red BALL!  Oh, it was unfair, I wanted that ball.  They kept it away from me as much as they could but sometimes it would come to the edge where I could just about reach it.  I couldn't let them have all the fun, so I jumped in after it.  It was much harder to try and grab while in the water, so I had to climb out to try again.
  Climbing out was only easy at the stairs, the edges were too high, except at one spot where there was one very tiny step between shiny metal posts.
  Well, I kept trying to get the ball, and sometimes the humans would throw it across, and I could almost get around before they got to it.  Other times they would pass it to me, but it was too big for me to catch, though I tried.  I ended up jumping in after quite a few times.  I was never successful at getting it. Until....
  All six humans eventually got distracted trying to get into a small boat, so I seized the opportunity to try to capture the ball.  When it was close enough I carefully grabbed it and stole it from the water.  Once I had the ball, I retreated to safety on the grass and played while the humans were busy.  It was the end of a wonderful adventure.