My experience has been that they will wade in shallow water, but dislike swimming. They obviously swim to evade dogs. Wayne >Racoons can be a problem, but if the pond is deep enough the fish will be >ok. Racoons like water, but they do not go in to it, just reach in. > To join the AKA see http://www.aka.org/pages/join.html Archives are at http://fins.actwin.com/killietalk/