The morning started out a little scary. The spitting rain, the dark skies the cold wind. In other words a typical Calgary summer day.
The majority of the morning group is camped out at my house so we just had to pick up Joey, Bruin, Rover and Aspen. The rest of the crew is dirtying up my house: Wilbur, Whistler, Everest, Shea, Nina, Copper Duck Dog and Vader. After a not so quick stop at the vet`s office to discuss diarrhea we were off to the neighbourhood dog park. The park is very small and kind of boring but with several balls and big bowl of water the dog powered through their work out. Almost everyone, except Whistler and Joey were interested in the balls at some point but it was Everest, Wilbur, Aspen and Shea that really dug in and tried to be the first to retrieve. We managed to come home with as many balls as we arrived with.
The afternoon dogs got really lucky. With some insider neighbourhood information from Sam`s `mom` we went to River Park for a swim in the Elbow this afternoon. The road to the park and the beautiful home along it were severely hit by the floods so many people don't realize that the park is open again. We basically had the whole lower part of the park to ourselves. We did meet a new friend named Murphy there. He is a 16 month old yellow lab that does not know how to swim. I tried to coax him in the water with the pack but he was content to lay down in the water at the shoreline. Crazy Copper, Oakley, Gabby, Pina and Sam were so happy to be in the water and enjoyed the competition to be the first to bring the balls back from the water. Josie, R2, Ryder and Frankie were happy to be investigating the smells along the banks and to interact with Murphy`s mom. Remy had a tummy ache from breaking into a bag of Everest`s food so he was just sort of wandering around - not really into swimming but wanting to play too hard.
It was so cute when Murphy and R2 started chasing each other up onto the bank and threw the bushes. Murphy could run much faster then R2 but R2 kept right up to him and almost caught him a couple of times.
All the dogs went home much quieter and calmer than when they were loaded in the truck.
