This morning was 'it': the day that dingo and PO went to Cat Rock Ski Resort (and dog spa) without any help from MO or KaNina. Lots of stars had to align; I was mostly worried about these:
I needed to be more interesting to Jake than anything around us (squirrels included)
I needed to have a calm, cool, and collected energy about me (even if I was uber-nervous)
Jake needed to listen to all of my verbal commands
furthest out of my control...I needed all of the other dogs/owners to have THEIR stuff together
Once we got there, it didn't take long for things to get interesting. We crossed over the first bridge and ran into a dog walker with 8 dogs. I didn't flinch and neither did Jake. He checked in with me and I allowed him to go say, 'hi' to the other pack. He was awesome. Everything was cool (they were starting to play with one another)...BUT...there was a little yipper that started to squabbel with another one of the dogs in the pack and some others joined in the brief chaos. I whistled to Jake and he came bounding over to me. Success! 'at a boy! Unfortunately, we're out of treats so I could only give him some well deserved pats on his noggen. That was the last we saw of them, which was fine with me, but you could hear them every once in a while from the other side of the park when they would get out of control. We're lucky to have KaNina because they refuse to take more than 5 dogs on normal playgroups.
> wait a tick...some guy just dedicated The Night that the Lights went out in Georgia to his wife. Like, whoa.
Anyhow, we ran into CoCo (et al) at the resevoir. It was cool to see the young lovebirds frollick and play. I don't know what Jake is doing in this picture...but whatever.
Jake's terrified of most things the first time he encounters them but he eventually warms to them (vacuum excluded). Here he is making his case for the purchase of a new house on a lake.
...when I signed up for the YouTube channel, I had to scroll through the list to find my year of birth - I don't remember having to do this in the past.
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