Swimming Party!

Wednesday afternoon Brook and I decided to spoil the doggies, shocker I know, and go buy them mini swimming pools. They are in LOVE with them! I haven't written since then because I am too busy filling up the pools and laughing!!! Lilly (our Jack Russell that has been swimming in the water bowl) now has an Olympic Pool to swim in and her large friends can join her. Thursday morning when her dad brought her said "What did you do to her? She slept all night! Will you do it again today?" we laughed and showed him the pools. Our big dogs are so happy to be able to roll in the pool, lay down when they are hot or splash and splash. All the dogs seem to turn back into puppies around the pools.

Buddy's favorite game is to run, run, run with the other dogs and then slide into the pool as if it is the 'safe base.' With his slide the water splashes everyone else so all start running again!!! (there is a pool on each side of the yard so they are burning LOTS of energy) Lucy, a beautiful-I mean beautiful-Cockerspaniel, has decided that chasing and running with the big dogs is only fun when it begins or ends in the water. She stays in there most the day.

Today is another Retriever day. We have Maggie and Buddy who are Golden Retrievers and Abbey and Derby who are black and chocolate labs these 4 of course love the water; however, they really would prefer there be sand in the bottom-they try so hard to dig out the bottom. The digging usually results in Buddy, Cutie Pie, Chance, Andy, Mack, Brady, and Bella, barking and ready to play again.

Besides the new ones already mentioned today we have: Gravy Paul, the Pug! Gravy holds a special place in my heart-his mom and I were roommates when we first moved to Fort Smith-he is a FUNNY dog. Also, Lady and Penny are with us today for the first time-both are doing great! I think they are enjoying being around all the other dogs and outside all day in the wonderful fresh air! While talking about new dogs - Kira, a black greyhound, is going to become one of our 'regulars' here at Ultimutt. Her mom drove to West Memphis and picked her up from the race tracks on Saturday-she had broken her leg and was retiring from her racing career. She was here yesterday and is coming back tomorrow. She is a very sweet quiet dog who loves the attention and love of humans and is learning to play with the other dogs-it is obvious she has never had the 'freedoms' that so many of our dogs are used to (running, fetching, playing, barking, etc).

Mitzi is back today, she is a sweet little girl, with a great story. She is doing very very well with all the larger dogs and even the few that are smaller than her. Mitzi and I did some training at lunch today, she is a smart girl and so eager to please training her shouldn't be hard as long as it is followed up at home. Speaking of training our first training class start on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 AT 6:15 pm.