The Dog Park

Yesterday Chris and I went to the dog park. We met up with the girls that used to live in the house that we are in now. Jessica and Jessica. One of the Jessica's has a black lab that is about a year old named Gracie and we go to the dog park with her regularly. Gracie and River get along so well. The other Jessica is dog sitting for her friends and brought an 8 month old golden retriever named Holden. He was very cute.

The dog park is always an interesting adventure. Between training your dog the right etiquette, to having a very muddy dog to transport home in your car. Its funny because there are little kid pools that are filled with water so the dogs can have some water to drink. Gracie and River, without fail, will lay in the pools to cool off. NO other dogs do this, just Gracie and River. I think it is cute, but it does call for a very wet and muddy dog for the ride home. There is also a river right by where the dog park is so sometimes I will throw a ball in the river and let him run after it to get rinsed off.

There are some very interesting dogs at the dog park. I also cant believe sometimes, how owners don't try to train there dogs at all. River is not what I would call a well trained dog, but he looks like a genius sometimes compared to other dogs at the park. We have seen many dog fights and I'm sure there are more to come. But no matter what happens at the dog park River doesnt care. He loves going there to run around and meet new dogs each time. We like it because is wears River out so he is sleepy when we get home.

Speaking of River and being trained, Chris has taught him a few cool tricks. I'm very impressed how fast River caught on to these. He knows sit, lay down, and stay. When Chris says "stay" he will freeze, Chris will put a treat on his nose, and he will stay until Chris says "OK" Its too funny. I hope Hannah will learn tricks as fast as River did.

I think Chris and I are going to the store today to do some shopping for Hannah. I am so excited. We were supposed to go to dance lessons today but it got postponed until next weekend. Ill keep you posted on the dance classes, they should be very interesting.