Thursday, November 06, 2003
Evening walk? Are you kidding?? It's raining out there . . .
We had a really rainy day today and this evening was no different. Fortunately, by the time that Sparky was ready for his evening walk, it had stoped raining in ernest and was only misting. The girls weren't interested in going out in the rain for an evening walk (I swear that Winnie rolled her eyes at Kira when I suggested it) but Sparky and I were up for it. We walked about 40 blocks up and down Madison and then called it a night.
This morning in the park, I decided to up the training intensity to see how Sparky responded. We did "the monster" stairs twice and as always Sparky was a trooper and powered his way up both times. He starts out on the bottom steps at a run but by the last few steps he is struggling a bit.
After the stairs we had a rousing game of fetch, again with Kira and Winnie throwing and Sparky and myself retrieving. (I think that I am going to drop a few pounds myself with all of the stair training and fetching!)
We then returned to the apartment wet, muddy and happy. I have discovered that Sparky loves to be towelled off, particularily when I hide his face in the towel and wrestle with him. Winnie is much the same and both begin to get charged up and then look up with "Crazy Spaniel Eyes" and a big smile on their faces. The two of them are, if not friends yet, at least peacefully co-habitating.
Sparky is still getting used to other dogs and it's not so much as he is aggressive to them, but that he just doesn't know how to saw hello properly. We're working on it and he's getting better with each passing day.
This morning in the park, I decided to up the training intensity to see how Sparky responded. We did "the monster" stairs twice and as always Sparky was a trooper and powered his way up both times. He starts out on the bottom steps at a run but by the last few steps he is struggling a bit.
After the stairs we had a rousing game of fetch, again with Kira and Winnie throwing and Sparky and myself retrieving. (I think that I am going to drop a few pounds myself with all of the stair training and fetching!)
We then returned to the apartment wet, muddy and happy. I have discovered that Sparky loves to be towelled off, particularily when I hide his face in the towel and wrestle with him. Winnie is much the same and both begin to get charged up and then look up with "Crazy Spaniel Eyes" and a big smile on their faces. The two of them are, if not friends yet, at least peacefully co-habitating.
Sparky is still getting used to other dogs and it's not so much as he is aggressive to them, but that he just doesn't know how to saw hello properly. We're working on it and he's getting better with each passing day.
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