Doggie Parks

There really are doggie parks out there. Parks made especially for dogs. The park is gated, full of grass and they have big concrete pipes for the dogs to run through, and yes...a fire hydrant. Stu and I didn't know they existed until our trainer mentioned to us to take Blue to one. We did just that yesterday. Sunday brought warm weather and clear sky's and perfect time to take Blue to meet other dogs.

Let me set the setting. Blue in the back seat with the window down getting excited as we pull up into the parking stall. As Stu gets his leash ready to go on his collar, it takes about everything Stu has to get Blue to sit. As we walk towards the gate Blue is pulling Stu to the point where Stu is almost in a run. As we approach the park I observe the amount of dogs running around in the gated community. There are about 100 dogs and when I say 100 I don't mean there were a lot of dogs..I mean there were over 100 dogs running EVERYWHERE. Blue was a little overwhelmed by the number of dogs coming up to sniff is private area and to be honest, I would be nervous too. He struggled with the amount of dogs and people at first so we just kept Blue close to us and went to our own little patch of grass and had him sit and watch for a bit. As Blue is sitting by Stu and watching the dogs, some dogs have come over to say hi to Blue (hi= smelling Blue) and one dog named Spike comes over to say "hi" and proceeds to lift his leg and pee on our dog. Is that how dogs say Hi to the new kid on the block? After about 20 min Blue got use to the dogs running around and seemed to enjoy running after his tennis ball Stu was throwing at him. We had quite a few other dogs bring the ball back thinking the ball was there's and gross..it was covered in other dogs foamy spit.

Overall through we had a good day at the doggie park.