Saturday, July 5, 2008

Service Dog In Training Gear and Baseball

Today, I got a big luggage tag like the one Pico wears on her alternate service dog harness (the one for hot weather and car trips!)  It says "Service Dog In Training" in big letters on one side and all my important information on the back.  Julie put it on my harness and put Pico in her pack and we all got in the car.  We drove over to the local park and ride and got on the MAX train.  I'd been on the MAX before, but it was a special day when dogs were allowed and I only went a few blocks.  This time we rode all the way past downtown to a place called PGE Park to watch the Beavers play baseball. 

I'm not quite sure what baseball is, but it involves my people sitting around and eating yummy food that they might share with us (peanuts - yum!) and watching people run around on a field.  Oh, and everyone sings a song about food and balls - I think it was written by a dog, 'cause that's two of our favorite things!  It was "Bark In The Park" day, so dogs were allowed and at the end of the game, we got to go down on the field and run around the infield, which is the area where most of the people playing hung out.  It was fake grass but I pooped on it anyway and Juli had to clean up after me.  Apparently I wasn't supposed to though - what's the point of grass (especially fake grass) if you don't poop on it?  Anyway, it was good that my people took me on a dog day, because it took me most of the game to learn how you are supposed to behave at a baseball game (sit quietly and don't bark at other dogs or scary people.)  I'm a little bit scared of kids in hats and there were a lot of them there, but Juli kept me so busy with treats that after a while I forgot to worry about them at all. 

We took the MAX back to our car too.  Juli says that I was almost perfect on the MAX (I barked at a scary kid once on the way there) and really good at the game and she's very proud of me.  I just know that I got so many treats that I'm actually not hungry!  And even though I didn't do much moving around, I sure did a lot of thinking and learning and I'm so tired I may sleep for the rest of the week!
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Thursday, July 3, 2008

So I have this really good idea -

We have at least one full bag of Castor & Pollux dog biscuits that expired last week. They are their fabulous Natural Ultramix Wheat-Free Dog Cookies (Juli says I have to have wheat free cookies 'cause I'm stinky when I eat wheat - humans have weird ideas of stinky!) Juli got them for me at the Doggie Dash in May and they still taste very, very good. But I think, just to be sure, that I should eat them all up now, just in case they go bad. Juli says properly stored recently expired cookies are perfectly fine and that's no reason to just eat them. She points out that if I have any doubts I can read the dates on the cookies in her lunch bag. Darn!
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