14.08.13

morning beach dash:
Alice
Lucy
George
Otto
Shirley
Maggie
Ziggy
Bosha
Linda
Tori
(10)

Up the beach to Au Soleil Couchant and back the same way: ~4k. I forgot to get Shirley on the leash before we left so she was off until I caught her at the soldiers' pier; she was a good girl and I watched her carefully the rest of the way and had her on the leash... there don't seem to be any ill effects now a couple of hours later. Everyone really behaved themselves on this one. We ran into two strays just north of the HoJo; one of them was the girl-pup that I got out of one of the large storage tanks at the shrimpery, the other looks like a sibling of hers. The two strays split up when they saw us, one jumping into the water and the other heading into the bushes; our dogs were perfectly civil, and by the time we had all passed heading north the two strays realized there was no need for their caution and went back to what they were doing (heading south, mostly). Everyone did a lot of swimming and horsing around, listened well and had a good time.
GRADE: A

morning swim:
Greta
(1)

Good girl.
GRADE: A