We're staying at a friend's house (the wonderful people who put on the Pepper Memorial Classic) and they have a really nice agility field. There is one thing I really need teach Wazzu so I thought this would be a great opportunity to practice. I knew I wouldn't be able to do many repetitions as Wazzu hates to practice. So I got out her favorite ball that she only sees once or twice a year and out we went. Wazzu did two reps, took her ball and went to lay in the shade underneath the A-frame. Good thing the weather over the weekend was cold.
Sparkie really enjoyed practicing. She's been missing a few contacts lately so hopefully a little practice will "remind" her about that yellow part. Little Slugger was the weaving machine. We went out to teach him the rear cross. But he just kept running over and offering the weaves - doing all 12 perfectly and fast. He was so cute! I know I'm a softy but I just couldn't help but give him a big hug.
We then ran a few errands. While out we stopped at Shadow Mountain Park. I won't break it to the folks around here but this was no mountain - it was more like a small hill. The park really was a baseball park but behind the 10 beautiful baseball diamonds and four soccor fields was this hill. We walked on a trail that went around the hill and eventually to the top.
Slugger didn't want to leave as he was enjoying just sitting there watching the world - his favorite hobby next to swimming.
From the top we could see downtown Reno and the beautiful snow capped mountains in the background.
Shawn and James: In addition to the full sized baseball diamonds at this park they also had regulation size Little League fields. How would you like to play on a field like this!
We'll be back to watch you play again this year - at least I hope your season goes that long.
Later in the day we went back out to do another errand and took a little scenic drive through downtown Reno (it sure doesn't look as new and fancy as I remember from when I used to come here so often when I was little). We then drove through the University of Nevada and found a really huge off leash dog park nearby. While we don't usually go to dog parks, this one looked huge and for some reason most of the people and dogs all seemed to be gathered around one little section of it. So we took the dogs there and went to the lower section where there weren't any other dogs.
Here are three pictures of the dog park. They show three sides of the park - we went down to a lower part (no picture of that part).
We let Slugger off leash as it is so rare that there is a safe area for him (where he won't get lost). The took off just as fast as he could across the field zipping and zapping this way and that to try to keep away from the girls. He probably ran over 100 yards before they caught him. But just before they caught him he did a super sharp turn and his poor litle leg just couldn't withstand the torque and he came up injured. Poor little guy, he was just trying to have fun.
It always hurts my heart so much when one of my kids is injured. I wonder if real moms feel that way about their human kids. At least with human kids you can explain to them why they can't go out and play. Poor doggy kids don't understand that.
Here's hoping for a miracle overnight.
Debbie
4/16/07
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