Can confirm that dogs in water will scrab you with their claws.
Lovely piece and comforting to read. And having swam in the Irish sea with dogs brought me back memory of being freezing wet, with dog scrapes and the smell of them after.
I'd manually roll mine on the dry sand to try dry them, or on the walk back through the spiky beach grass you'd have wet dog body press against your leg as you're moving too slowly silly human, but their fur was just too sopping wet for it to work.