Why do older dogs keep tumbling into a Dublin swimming pool?

DEAR JOAN: I have a swimming pool and I have always had one or two dogs. The dogs and the pool get along fine until they reach the age of 15 or so and start to decline.

The end seems near once they start falling into the pool. Granted these are very old dogs but why does this keep happening? Is it a form of dementia, balance, a wish to speed up the end, the inability to see or smell the water? One of my dogs is 16 now and just fell into the pool.

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