On to Disney

We leave for Walt Disney World on Monday, and G'Kar will be spending his first bit of time without us... or maybe I should say we're spending our first bit of time away from him. I'm sure he'll be less concerned than I will be. Fortunately, he's going to be well taken care of, with daily walks, lots of visits, time in the run with Dune, and even visits to other homes! The only thing I'm concerned about is that he'll be sleeping without us all night long.

I'm going to miss him a lot!

He had a great time last weekend in Calgary with a house 'o dogs - 6 dogs running around the Burt's house. G'Kar loved the attention and did really well, though Dune and Riesling had more than one dispute. For some reason they have a hard time getting along with each other. Fortunately, by the time we left, they were playing nicely.

On the way home, we stopped outside of Brock on a country road to let them out of the car and run while we ate our lunch. After a break I took them for a short stroll down the gravel road and suddenly G'Kar put his nose up in the air and sniffed, then bolted away from me, under a barbed wire fence, and into a pasture. About 3 seconds later he was rolling in a very foul pile of green, soupy, mostly-decayed grass clippings. The stuff reeked, which only made it that much better for him. He came back to me a few moments later covered in green goop and stinking like a compost heap, happy and proud of his new-found treasure. He was, literally, dripping. We spent 20 minutes and all the paper napkins we had in the car (why had we forgotten paper towel???) trying to wash him down so that we could stand him for the next 3 hours of our trip. Thank goodness it wasn't manure.

When we got home, G'Kar got a bath - his first bath. He wasn't sure at first, but soon accepted it and didn't seem to mind all that much. And the energetic after-bath running was nothing but pure fun for him. Why do dogs do that? The running, not the rolling in pea soup.

I've enroled G'Kar in obedience classes that start in the fall. They're offering beginner agility training after each weekly class, so I might stay for that too.

Hopefully my next post will be from Florida!