Fridays are Fun

So, it was another wonderful but very cold morning today. I saw Spike when I first got there. I was still on lead but he and I said hello without any problem. We went running down toward the river and it was just an all out sprint race between me and Mimi. I am glad she is running and having fun. I still think that she has to have that knee thing looked at but mostly she is doing good.

We saw something that made me worry about my dog friends. There were drops of blood all along the trails. That makes me think someone tore their pad. Mimi has more experience with this problem than me. Sometimes if the snow and ice gets stuck in your toes it causes little snow/ice balls that gets jammed up in your feet and toes and that can cause serious problems with cutting into dog foot pads. You can't really fault the pads because they do get a lot of work and not much credit. The thing is once they get ripped they are hard to heal and that sort of stinks.

My person uses some wax stuff that she smooshes all over Mimi's feet and the ice and snow does not stick. Sometimes I wonder if my person also uses the same stuff in her hair. She puts some stuff in it that seems like the same thing.

Anyway, I saw Harper (yellow lab) on top of the hill. We get along OK and everything was fine. Soon, I saw Rosie(choc lab) up ahead and I got put on lead. I was thinking we would be OK but my person was smart. As we approached Rosie she dropped her tennis ball and i grabbed it. My person knew that was a problem. She got the ball from me and Rosie's person kept her away which was also a good plan. So, my person got the ball from me and tossed it to Rosie. I tried to run to get the ball and a big whoops happened. My person was sort of off balance and I swung around and we were both on the ground. Hooray!!!! We are going to play. But it was not so. My person got up and off we went. We left the park without seeing another dog. It was a great morning and remember to take care of those paws.

Merlin the Health Advisor.