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Monday, March 14, 2011

Muddy and wet.

I haven't taken any of the dogs to the dog park for a while so today I mustered up the effort and took them.  All three.  We walked.  Mom was all "Are you crazy?  Can you handle all three of them at once?"  I was like "Pfft, you underestimate my awesomeness."  And off we went.
Sasha and Conker were on the right, Juneau the left.  Juneau always gets her own side since she requires the most work.  She is constantly trying to get ahead of the other dogs, she pulls no matter the leash length and any sort of prey-like critter grabs her unwavering attention.   Sasha and Conker go well together since they both travel at about the same speed, they both respond well to slight tugs on the leash and generally don't pull as ferociously as Juneau will.

We safely made it to the dog park, Juneau heeling most of the way, Sasha and Conker getting a bit more freedom.  Until we reached the fence.  There were two dogs already there, a red Siberian Husky and a Boxer/Great Dane mix named Logan.  I've met Logan before and Conker was excited to see him.  Juneau and Sasha on the other hand, they tried to charge and barked up a storm until I was able to get them back under control.

For the most part all the dogs got along.  Conker did his usual act afraid of the other dogs then run off and try to play thing while Juneau and Sasha went straight to barking at Logan. Poor guy didn't know what to do with them.  Sasha got the general idea that barking equals yelling from me so she stopped.  Juneau though, after another Lab entered she wouldn't quit.  Not until the other Lab had at Juneau with a barking frenzy of her own did Juneau begin to back off.  Sasha was always dogging the people for attention, leaning and resting her head on them.  The Husky loved to be pet too but the other dogs just wanted to run.  The Husky played with Conker for a while and butt-checked him a few times.  Conker always tries to do that to Juneau and Sasha but it never works.  It was funny seeing a bigger dog to it back to him.
The dogs generally played good for a while.  The other three all left around the same time.  As the Husky was leaving Conker decided to scrap with Juneau and made a huge show for Sasha who stood around wagging her tail like nothing was going on.  We stuck around for a little while then headed down to the creek since all three dogs were full of mud from the near-constant rain we've been getting for the past week.  I discovered that Conker WILL go into the water if the other dogs do it first, that was kinda unexpected.  He usually wants nothing to do with it.

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