21.08.12

morning walk:
Alice
Lucy
Rita
Gowron
Frankie
Bosha
Linda
Buddy
(8)

I took this group out for a walk around the cow pasture the long way, leaving via the dirty road and coming back on the coco trail. Everyone was enthusiastic and dealt well with a variety of strange occurrences on the way. As we were just leaving we encountered a fellow from town standing in the middle of the road at our intersection; he's perhaps not all there, a heavy drinker, and was far away from his normal haunts. He didn't respond to anything I said or to the dogs sniffing him which is probably why everyone was so good about it; I had to intervene with Buddy and pick him up but otherwise all of the dogs just kept moving down the trail. We ran into some workers loading a mountain of salt into bags on the dirty road and again everyone was good. Buddy got turned around a little bit once or twice but it was easily corrected. Bosha was off the leash for a good bit of it. Everyone had fun swimming in the charcos. At the very end we saw that same strange dude up our road to the north towards the soldiers but nobody barked or chased him. PupG and Frankie snuck down to the beach on the north road when we came back but they were good about coming in with me when I came to get them.
GRADE: A

morning swims:
Bette
Greta
(2)

Both of them swam like little mermaids.
GRADE: A