cats

I’ve always said you should throw your pets in the pool, and coax them towards the stairs. Then repeat it until they can get out without coaxing.

Is it mean? Yeah. But it’ll save their life if they ever fall in. I’ve seen stories of pets drowning in the deep end of pools, simply because they didn’t know there was a staircase on the other end. They never thought to swim to the other side. They just exhausted themselves by desperately clinging to the edge in the deep end.