Give him lots of natural oils, oils from fish and animals, and from things like olives and sunflowers. Load his diet quite heavily with them. After a week of this sort of feeding start to groom him with a hair brush three or four times a day. Brush failry hard for ten or fifteen minutes. After four weeks of starting this regime, he'll swim like a trout with not an air bubble in sight.
I did this with an equally recalcitrant African three-clawed otter and it worked a treat. My happiest memory of that young otter was watching him clear the surface of the river a couple of times as he swam away. Forever.

S. G. Brown, Selsey, West Sussex, England

That's odd. The otter really ought 'ter.

RMR, Toronto, Canada

Gimme, I'll get the lil' dude to swim.

Skean, Utica, IN,

Ahhh - the poor little be-whiskered bunny! It's nothing to do with his fur and clearly some water-based deep emotional rauma that Torrent is reacting to. Perhaps his ma & pa were swept out to sea one dark stormy night and he's had a fear of water ever since...Otters are much more sensitive than people think. Having said that they're all cute and furry - but could have your arm off in two shakes of a pig's whistle if they had a mind to....all hail the otter!!

Neela, London, London

I agree, what a little cutie!
If little Watchet doesn’t want to get in the water, he doesn’t have to. That's the perk of being adorable.

Stefanie, Palm Springs, USA, CA

i want to squeeze that cute little thing. LET ME.

shawn, Burlington, Vermont/USA