On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:43:05 -0400, hk wrote:

When I was a kid, I used to take my dog to a beach at Long Island Sound.
Dog had no problem swimming. No gators, either. Take your dogs to a salt
water beach.

You could get one of those four gallon garden sprayers to rinse the
salt off the dog. Or do they even care?

Casady