As we have talked about before, when we live in the Condo, due to their silly HOA rules, Bubba needs to live at Marcia’s brother’s house. Last year we were only home for less than 3 months, and Bubba stayed out in California with Arny and my sister Sandy. Arny and Bubba are “best friends”. This year we might not make it back to California until May, and 10 months is too much to ask for even for “best friends”…after all, Bubba is 15, going on 16 years old…though he does not act his age most of the time.
So on Sunday, after church was over, I took Bubba over to the Tarpon Springs Doggie Park…a real ‘jewel’ for dog owners. Unfortunately, I did not take the camera, and the flip phone camera is not very good…but it is what it is.
Bubba is in all three of the above pictures. We were at the Doggie Park for a good 45 minutes, over half of that time alone…except for the sounds of the huge crowd next door at the Kids Splash Park.
Well…Skruffy too. Doesn’t she look cute?
Well, I got you there … that was not Skruffy. It is Chloe, who showed up with her mommy about 30 minutes after Bubba and I got there. For her mom, Cici is her name, it was one of those “two for the price of one” things…she brought her grandchild and a neighbor child to enjoy the splash park, while she sat with 4 month old Chloe at the doggie park (of course, everything is free). As for Bubba…well he was EXHAUSTED from the heat when I got him back into the car…but he loved every sniff and smell, especially Chloe’s butt. Chloe is normally very afraid of dogs, but she had little problem with Bubba, which her mama liked a lot. But when she heard a much bigger dog bark as it got out of its car, right as Bubba and I were leaving, well she hightailed it back to her mama with her tail between her legs. As I got in the car, the big dog entered the big dog area of the doggie park, which I was happy for Chloe for…unfortunately, many people ignore the rules and bring their big dogs in with the little dogs. All I can say about that is “GRRRRRRRR”
I can tell Bubba loved the park. It's all about the smells!! Cute little Chloe!!
ReplyDeleteBubba at the Dog Park is like this...he wanders around the park sniffing and sniffing, ignoring all other dogs, and once he is satisfied with his sniffing, then he mingles with other dogs...so he enjoyed the first 30 minutes by himself, and then enjoyed the next 15 minutes with Chloe and another dog which I did not get pics of, then he was ready to leave.
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