T minus 7

No, even though it would make sense coming from me, that is not an algebra equation. That's what's left of the countdown. In 7 days, we will be hitting the road for our 1000 mile trip to our next temporary home. Life is such an interesting journey.

Funny story from this week:

Star was laying next to my chair, gnawing on a nylabone. Sunny was pacing around her, whining a bit, looking at me for help. Offering to play with him while she enjoyed the bone, I said "Go get your ball." Always eager to play ball, he quickly rounded one up, but instead of bringing it to me, he took it to Star.

Now I don't know what he was thinking but here are two ideas that came to mind.

1 - I'll trade her the ball for the bone. (What a nice boy he is!)

2 - I'll distract her by dropping the ball behind where she is laying, then when she moves to check it out, I'll swoop in and steal the unguarded nylabone. (What a devious boy he is!)

Whatever his intentions, it worked like a charm. She rolled over on her back to get to the other side (an amusing move in itself) and he swooped. Mission accomplished, he gave it a few good gnaws, and just that quickly got up and left it, and she resumed her work on it. Silly kids - very entertaining and they do share nice.

It was a big week for Sunny as he had his final x-rays, 12 weeks after his 2nd knee surgery, and was released by his beloved doctor to ease slowly back into being a dog. I calculated that this ball crazy youngster has spent 6 of the last 10 months on restricted activity due to his 2 operations, and during the 4 months between he was already in pain from the new tear, so he was self-restricting his activity.

So this week he has enjoyed a few short play sessions with the ball and the new chuck-it. Star is not interested in the ball, but occasionally joins in the running part of the exercise - she LOVES to run. And she is FAST man! We will soon be looking into Agility for her.

With company this weekend, we hit lots of dog parks and took some special pictures. The three in this post are from the Great Bark Dog Park in Lafayette. (Great name, great park!)

We also hit the elusive Louisville dog park (took us 4 separate trips to finally locate it) and tried out the great swimming hole. Will try to get back there again this final week with the real camera.

Maybe a little friendly competition between the 2 "L" towns to see who can have the better dog park?? We must say - Thank You Colorado for the great dog parks, as well as the wonderful open space hiking places that we started covering in this blog last year.

In a week, we'll be checking out the dog parks and hiking trails in our new town.

Stay tuned!

PS - Last post we accused Star of chewing on and removing the tabs on the backs of shoes. Later I recalled that she had been caught red-pawed chewing on the slippers while I was right nearby in the shower. And that's why I was sure it was her. I had just forgotten that little detail.

PPS - The Dog of the Week story and pictures on adogspurpose.com have moved to the Blog archives.