Furry Fun

This afternoon, we took the pups to a "Furry Fun Day" in a neighboring town, which was sponsored by a local therapy dog group.

There were several vendors, and games and contests for the dogs, concessions for both humans and dogs, and a DJ.

Someday we will learn to leave PerfectPup at home, where she's happy, and just take BigGaloot with us to this sort of thing.

It feels like it would be mean to leave her behind, but she probably would consider it a lot less mean than making her go.

She really is not so fond of crowds of people or, more importantly, crowds of dogs.

(She's like the Shrike of the canine species, except that Shrike is in heaven if she's surrounded by dogs. Surrounded by people, not so much.)

Galoot even seemed a bit nervous and somewhat subdued (for him) but at least he would walk around with us, and was more than happy to greet any other dog that came along - big, little or in-between.

PerfectPup on the other hand, just freezes in these situations, and refuses to move.

She did perk up a bit when I got them a couple of hotdogs, and loosened up again when we got away from the crowds, but I think she'd be much happier just staying home alone for the afternoon.

We spent most of the time encouraging PP to walk, but Galoot and Shrike did get a chance to take a run through an agility course, although I think he went around all but maybe one jump (low enough for him to step over) and definitely went around the tunnels.

(At least he didn't hump them, like Shrike tells me he does the tunnel in the basement.)

I wanted to get some video of that, but they were already in line, and I couldn't get PP to go over there so I could get the camera from her, and then it was their turn, and she left the bag at the gate and aaargh!

I did get some other footage, and I'll try to post a bit, maybe tomorrow. I'm still pretty slow with the editing, so I'm probably not going to tackle it tonight.

Then we came home and watched Best in Show (seemed to fit the theme of the day) before going out to dinner and some shopping.

More about that in the next post.