08.07.13

morning beach dash:
Rufus
Bosha
Twiggy
Luna
Xmul
Tori
(6)

Up the beach to Au Soleil Couchant and back again: ~4k. This trip was a little less crazed than the last one; PupG really got Rufus barking like a madman last time so I left her home and things went a bit more smoothly. Rufus cut out the barking within the first 100m and I let Xmul off the leash right past the HoJo. Rufus thought about running up there to harass their dogs but I called him and he decided better of it. Bosha is comical on a run but we stopped a lot to swim and she had fun screwing around on the beach. Xmul and Twiggy had a good time together; I had them both on the leash past the soldiers' on the way home... a nice, quick run up and down the beach.
GRADE: A

morning walk:
Zasu
Miles
Henry*
Tito
Lucy*
Blue*
Bette
Monkey
(8)

Roni took this crew out for a walk and it was sort of all over the place. Most of them were good but the ones that were bad were very bad. Blue ran ahead immediately all the way to the decomposing dog in the drainage ditch and ran back to greet Roni on the trail covered in death and filth; she got yelled at and ended up coming home early on, along with Lucy and followed shortly by Henry (which I didn't realize for a while). I had to give Blue a proper bath to get the stench off of her. Henry insisted on screwing around in the road while Roni was trying to get going, I'm not sure why he decided to come home early. All of the misbehavior cast a pall over the walk; some real clouds would've been more welcome as it was incredibly hot already. Roni ended up taking the ones that stuck with her on a decent walk considering the scorching heat but all of the shenanigans were aggravating.
GRADE: X