--- description: Where there's a will there's a way title: Dog Finds Very Clever Way to Retreive Ball From Pool image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Dog Found a Clever Way to Retrieve Her Ball From a Pool Without Getting Wet by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 25, 2015 6:28 PM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 25, 2015 6:28 PM CUT This dog apparently doesn’t like to swim very much, but that didn’t stop her from retrieving a tennis ball from the middle of a pool. YouTube user [Esther Cushway](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0ewIMyB6T2LOCb-afCREA/feed "undefined") posted a video of “Rosie” fetching the ball from the water by brilliantly using a nearby kiddie pool as a makeshift raft to reach the middle of the pool, then return to safety. Watch as this master of modern physics avoids getting wet as much as possible. ### 10 Puppies That Look Even More Adorable Underwater  Pringles & Pickme Seth Casteel  Monty Seth Casteel  Popsicle Seth Casteel  Ginger Seth Casteel  Ruger Seth Casteel  Rolley Seth Casteel  Iggy Seth Casteel  Reason Seth Casteel  Corey Seth Casteel ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3972318/dog-pool-ball/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3972318/dog-pool-ball/"},"headline":"This Dog Found a Clever Way to Retrieve Her Ball From a Pool Without Getting Wet","datePublished":"2015-07-25T18:28:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:13.913Z","description":"Where there's a will there's a way","url":"https://time.com/3972318/dog-pool-ball/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dog"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3972318/dog-pool-ball/","name":"This Dog Found a Clever Way to Retrieve Her Ball From a Pool Without Getting Wet"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside the Canine Mind","description":"Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dTemQHb7/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-09-11T01:23:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3972318/dog-pool-ball/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3972318/dog-pool-ball/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```