28.05.12

morning whatever:
Alice
Ginger
George
Gowron
Ernie
Maggie
Molly
(7)

Around the cow pasture the short way: ~1k. My plan was to take the fatties for a brief run to the tortuga sign and back again but Ginger crapped on it by disappearing with Alice for 10 minutes on the dirty road. I know Alice would've been on my hip if it wasn't for Ginger; as it was Alice heard me yelling for Ginger and ran home, so I had to bring us all back. Ginger spent the morning in the box and is no longer going to be "thrown in" on runs - her behavior was inexcusable. She crapped on the morning and will not be trusted for a long time. Everyone but the sisters behaved more or less and got short-changed.
GRADE: C

morning walk #1:
Lucy
(1)

Lucy really wanted to go on the earlier outing but she can't because she's just not allowed to run - she immediately gets a limp. Since she was still out in the yard I took just her down the coco trail to the maginot line and the beach and then made her swim pretty much the whole way from there to in front of our house. She had a good time.
GRADE: A

morning walk #2:
Zasu
Miles
Henry
Tito
Reggie
Ziggy
Linda
(6)

Roni took this crew out after I got back with Lucy; the theme for the morning seemed to be: ASSHOLES. On the first outing it was Ginger. On this one it was Ziggy; at least Ziggy has the excuse of his extreme stupidity to explain his behavior whereas Ginger does not. Ziggy just ran straight to the shrimpery out of the gate, dragging Linda with him. He needs work on the leash to be better on walks because he's so used to leaving on runs but honestly we're not sure any amount of work on the leash will help with him - Alex and Alex took him on umpteen walks, always on the leash, and yet he still does the same stupid thing when he gets a chance. Once Roni caught up with him things got better but there was still a lot of screwing around; Miles dawdling certainly didn't help. Roni said that once she got Ziggy on the leash things improved and that everyone had a fine time; she came home holding Linda in her arms but only as a preventative measure.
GRADE: A