Ball and tail blocking

Blocking stage: Ive blocked out the intial idea for my ball and tail, basically hes moving towards the edge in a content manner, (hence the tail wag). sees the water, reacts then sees the parent moving away. He panics and jumps onto the logs which bounce him up, but the last log dipps underwater and poor little foxy is left soaking.

The tranistion between the tail's secondary action when the ball is boucing towards the edge and into the tail wag seems a little off, I dont think it works to well. I've looked at a few references from foxs to (my) cat and found they tend not to swing thier tail when moving as much.