Sunday, October 4, 2009

Weekend of adventure

This weekend the dogs coped quite well with extensive traveling and new experiences. ("Cope" is one of the commands they know, along with "sit," "stay," "lie down," etc. In context: "Good dogs can cope. Those are some good dogs who cope, yes they are.")

Zorra has graciously posted Tuesday's account of the weekend over on her blog, so I'll just share a couple of other things.

We tried a new canine restraint method for this trip:


The Alpha's car has these nifty metal loops in the cargo hold that can be used for tying things down... or for slip-knotting a leash that is attached to a dog's seat-belt harness. The dogs had freedom to stand, sit, lie down on their beds, and move around a bit, but couldn't get into the human-passenger area of the car. They got tangled up far less often than they do when they are similarly restrained in the back seat, and the back seat stayed largely free of fur. Which was a great help the next day, when we packed all four adults and two dogs in the car and headed to Galveston:



...where The Boy determined that the ocean was chasing him, coming at him like that over and over. He decided that the best course of action was to bite the waves, as shown above. At first glance, it might look like he's drinking sea water, but no. He's biting the foam at the leading edge of the wave. (We took him back off the beach and into town after just a few minutes, and he calmed down. Well, as calm as a blue heeler can get, anyway.)

A wonderful time was had by all. Again, for a more complete picture of the weekend, go visit Zorra's blog... we are home now, and there is laundry to be done before bed, so I'm stepping away from the keyboard.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

It sounds like a great weekend! I hope to go to Galveston someday; my grandfather grew up there.

RevAnne said...

Glad it was a good weekend! I haven't been to any of the TX beaches, and I'm not brave enough to take the WonderMutt: too heavy a coat (most of the time) to risk getting wet and sandy, and we can't let him off the leash.
He knows "settle," which I suspect is similar to Angus and Tuesday's "cope."

DogBlogger said...

Wouldn't have guessed you have Texas roots, Songbird!

Oh, we didn't let him off the leash, RevAnne. He'd probably be okay, but I can't take it! ;-)

Anonymous said...

sounds like a really fun weekend for you all!! I cannot even fathom what our dogs would think of the beach.

revkjarla said...

the photos say it all. sounds like a blast!

Sue said...

Oh, it sounds so great!!! I love the last picture there - one of our cats would want to do the same. She will take on anything, anyone, anywhere!

Diane M. Roth said...

I love these photos! Make me want to take a road trip with Scout again.