My son (Spencer) and our labrador retriever who is afraid of the water. He's a rescue dog; no telling what happened to him. We are slowly trying the make him feel comfortable at the beach.
He seems oblivious to the example you are trying to set groveling in the wet sand. Methinks this is not quite down in the "ground" level but works anyway to capture the full length reflection which would have been lost with a lower pov. I'm noticing the ISO and low noise which would not be possible on my G10.