Our dogs love chasing and retrieving the ball, and they get quite competitive. After a while they need to get a drink so Habasher (who usually ends up with the ball) goes to the water trough with the ball, drops the ball in the trough (which sinks), has a general paddle, soak and drink, then feels with his feet for the ball and dunks his head completely under to retrieve the ball from the bottom and returns to us for the next round of ball chucking