It seems like we do nothing but go to the dog park.

But it is so much fun. Right now temperatures are moderately comfortable, and the spring rainy have not started. We can take the dogs to the dog park without too much fear of mud. We will take advantage of it as long as we can!

There were old friends at the park- everyone was glad to see Gus-

And there were some new friends to meet as well- some were large, and slower-

Some were small and faster.
Personal information was shared.
As always, there was a lot of curiosity about who might be arriving

And everyone took turns watching the baby...
Actually, Gus and Bailey, the black and white puppy, had quite a long game of tug-of-war with the stick. There is a slide show of those pics at the end of this post.
Juniper always likes to play with the puppies.


These pictures were taken on Sunday 3/15. We took our dogs up Monday, 3/16, and there was no one else there. Both Juniper and Boodles were wondering around, sort of droopy, when a car pulled into the lot. As soon as Boodles heard the crunch of tires on gravel, she ran flat out up to the fence to see who was arriving. To her great disgust, the occupants of the car went on by and over to the Rails to Trails portion of the Township park. They parked the car about 100 yards away, and got out with a dog. Boodles sat and watched them with an air of disbelief. I could almost hear her thinking "Surely they are going to come over here now. Well, maybe now. No, no, NOW."

More tales from the dog park

The nice weather brought a lot of folks to the dog park yesterday. There were the obligatory "getting to know you" exercises.
Some secret planning went on.

Someone saw something interesting and had everyone ready to go look.

Boodle's good friend Gus was there;

Daisy and CJ had some fun,
Gus, CJ and a puppy named Zumba (?) did too.

Even Juniper deigned to play a little, with the pup.

Boodles and Luke had some one-on-one,





Daisy thought it was funny, apparently. Luke had to leave soon after this. He forgets his size sometimes. More likely, Boodles forgets how big he is!


No dogs were hurt in the filming of this.



I did notice an odd thing- A dog arrived who was too timid to come into the big dog area. This dog had cut his foot on some glass the day before, and had his foot bandaged. Since there were no dogs on the small dog side, his person took him in over there to give him some off-leash time. When he was near the fence, Juniper came over, and stuck her foot through the fence while whining. I have never seen her do anything like this before. She is often interested in the small dogs when they are on the other side of the fence, but I have never heard her whine over anything before.