With Dave being gone walks in the park have changed. At first I found it boring and lonely, no one to laugh with or talk to. After a couple days though things changed. It became a good time with Maya. We get to run around and I get to laugh alone at her silly antics. It's like girl and dog bonding time.
She has also started a new funny pass time at the park. Squirrels are still a constant obsession for her but now she has discovered water. That's right she never knew the joys of water. Since she was at the SPCA for such a long time she just was never exposed to it. Last summer when we tried to expose her to it she was just way too timid to go in. Now she has discovered that it can be fun.
She still doesn't swim. (I think that she just doesn't realize that she can...) She will walk in the water until she can't touch, then jump backwards and try to find a way around the spot she can't touch. This means that she will try the right side, only to fall in again, then the left, with the same humorous consequences. Every time she will jump back and shake herself with confusion, tail still swinging around happily. What a cute picture she makes.
When she does this silly dance in the deep water she usually going for a stick that I have thrown for her. She likes going for sticks in the water more than when I throw them on land for her! I will pick up a stick and comes bounding over, tongue hanging out, tail wagging wildly. Then I throw it into the water for her. Off she goes after it. Bounding in the water, if not a little timidly. Then once she has reached the stick she will slowly reach her head out and with the greatest delicacy, pick up the stick. Then she will jump backwards and trot off to the shore. There she lays down with her prize, tail still wagging, chewing on it contentedly.
Chewing on a stick in the water, what a funny look...
It is a wonderful thing to be standing in the park, on a sunny warm spring day, watching your happy puppy play. The sun shining off the water and her smooth coat, it is quite zen. Just thinking about it puts a smile on my face...
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Does Maya like other dogs? We have my SIL's dog the first week of May and he LOVES the water. He's a top notch swimmer. Perhaps he could teach her to love it too.
Don't dogs just make life better?
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