Water Dog

Max, our Yellow Lab, loves the water. He is also the kind of dog that will do aything to please his owners. We feel pretty sorry for our dogs right now because we moved from a single family house in Kansas with a big backyard to the first floor of a multi family home with a sliver of a backyard that is not fenced. We are pretty lucky because we have this awesome park that is not far away with a lake that you can hike around. We did learn that hiking with a three year old, a large Lab and a fairly naughty little Cavalier is quite a lot of work. We were all ready for a break at one point so we stopped and let Max practice his retrieving. He is acutally very good and loves to do it!

After every good dip in the water it is really fun to shake and get everyone within a ten foot radius wet. I think he does it on purpose.

This is Max on the top of the huge hill that looks out over New Haven. If you notice, there is a small strip of blue in between the sky and the trees behind him. That would be the ocean. Yup, we are that close!

And here is Stanley walking Ella in the trees.

He likes to run away, so he rarely gets to be off leash, even when there aren't other dogs around. Ella is getting to the point where she really loves "helping" to walk Stanley. She is pretty good at it most of the time, except when she has a three year old moment and gets distracted, drops the leash and Stanley runs away anyways. She has also started calling him Stan which is really funny to me for some reason.