Cleary Lake Dog Park is a winner in my book! I heard from Mom that Katie and Emma went there a lot years ago, and Bailie had also been there several times. One person can only bring two dogs, so I never got to go because we were always three. Boy, it sure is a lot of fun racing around the twenty eight fenced acres!
Mom is always a bit nervous at this dog park because it is big, has tall grass, and wooded areas. She is always scared she will lose us. I guess thinking about it, I can understand. The moment our leashes come off, we take off, and close our ears. We do eventually decide to follow Mom because we don’t want to lose her, but we still keep a good distance in front of her, and are often out of sight.
Bailie really showed some maturity on our excursion. She stayed on the main path most of the time real close to Mom. When I was MIA, Bailie would help Mom get me to come back into sight. Since Mom’s nerves were frazzled by my being all over the place, she was thankful to have Bailie along!
It was cold and windy that day, but it was a good thing because all of the wet mess was frozen. Mom brought her Icebugs to wear on the ice. She could cruise around like there was nothing slippery at all. There were only three other people there, and they were all slow and scared of the ice. I think they thought Mom was nuts moving so fast on the ice. We dogs stayed off road or on the sides so we didn’t have to be on the ice much.
We stopped at one point for a photo together. It was not easy to reign me in, but I managed so sit for a few minutes in the wind.
While I was off going my own thing, Bailie had her own shadow to walk with. I would have felt bad if she was completely alone with Mom. Bailie is pretty tall, so she was very careful walking on the icy walkways.
My center of gravity being so long and short makes racing on ice a lot easier, but Mom is still careful and doesn’t want us to slip and fall. I figure that was a good excuse for me to stay off road for my racing activities most of our visit.
For me, it was all about running as fast as I could, and chasing scents through nature. It was truly amazing with no leash to hold me back.
Bailie did get tired of having to look for me all the time. She does look a bit put off, don’t you think? Mom would call me and I would not come, but if she said, “Madison, where’s Bailie?” I would pop out and go to Bailie.
For Bailie that game of being used as little sister locator was getting old, so she decided to work on some acrobatics, starting with a front paw stand. She did pretty well, don’t you think?
We had a blast for forty five minutes, and then Mom said it was time to get home and get back to her work. Naturally, we always have time for one more photo. It was super fun, and I hope we get to go back again soon. Rumor is Mom is going to hide from me to teach me to pay more attention to her. Not sure if that trick will work with me or not!
As soon as we got home, I crashed out for the rest of the day, no surprise I guess when a girl races around like a fool!
We are thankful for so many things including the Cleary Lake Dog Park, so we are joining Brianβs Home Blog in the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop! Visit some other blogs to see what they are thankful for.
Oh my goodness, such a fun place to run and romp. That is some big park and I’m glad you two enjoyed your day. Thanks for joining the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
Racing around like fools off leash is always fun.
Wow – 28 acres to run and play and be safe in but that ice sure does look slick. My mom is deathly afraid of ice.
2 years ago this month, Mom slipped on ice and broke her ankle. Now she is afraid of it, but the Icebugs are miracles when it comes to ice. She has boots for walking and shoes for running. They are amazing and they allow us to go out even when it is icy.
You are poetry in motion, Madison! I feel sorry for Bailie having to watch for you along with your mom. Are you still wearing your hearts and flowers collar? Mom put mine on me last weekend after she removed my holiday gear. XOXO Sparkle
I was wearing that collar until last night, actually. Now I have another one with colored hearts on it. Mom said it was time for Valentines looking collars. Bailie did have fun too, but Mom was thankful she was acting mature because I was always off on my own somewhere doing something and she was a wreck.
Awesome Madison! I love running off leash like that tooβ Dog parks like that one are the best, I agree! And mom has icebugs too because of you guys!!! Have a great day. your friend Lilly
We are thankful for everyone that wears Icebugs when it is slick out. What a difference they make. I sure had a blast running around at that park! We like to go when it is not busy, but with the ice, it was more like a private place just for us.
What a fun place! Torrey would have a ball there.
I think every dog would like it because it has everything, trails, off road, tall grass, and small wooded areas. It’s perfect because Mom can keep walking, we rarely run into anyone, and we have a blast running around.
the acrobatic photo is fabulous! congrats your mom caught a super moment!!!
Bailie was going to apply with the circus, but then we found out there are no more real circus things here. Now she is thinking about the Olympic Gymnastics Team. I thinks her sights are set a bit too high.
If I did a lot of running like that then I’d be ready to curl up on the cough, too. So thankful to know that your mom and you pups didn’t have any incidents on those icy sidewalks. That stuff is dangerous!
We dogs know to go off road if we want to run around and with the Icebugs, Mom is pretty safe on the ice too. It was nice because we had the place almost all to ourselves.
And a good time was had by all!
We all had a fantabulous time!
That looks like so much fun. Did you sniff any wabbits?
I sniffed a lot of critters, but they are not around during the day when we dogs are hanging out at the park.
OMD that front paw stand was amazing!! I think the best part is it looked like you didn’t see other dogs. That would be MY concern!
We normally go to dog parks at off times because we are there to exercise of leash, but we did find a couple other dogs. This park is so big, even if there are quite a few people there, you have plenty of space to do your own thing.
It’s good to have a place to romp and play. You two are ever so cute.
Have a woof woof Thankful Thursday. My best to your peeps. β₯
It was a fun outing, but I won the fun time award paws down!
What a great time you had in the park. And it’s always good to keep the humans on their toes…
Toodle pip!
Bertie.
Mom says I need to keep my eyes on her, but I think she should keep her eyes on me.
That sounds like a great place to play. We are happy with our 1 acre of fenced backyard but 28 acres of fenced play area sounds amazing. It’s nice that the have left some of it wooded and grassy areas so it isn’t just a wide open field.
We love our nice fenced backyard, but it is a lot of fun to go to other places and sniff some new smells, you know what I mean.
Sure looks like you two had such a good time. Running and playing, what could be better. Have a good evening.
It was a ton of fun, and wiped me out for the rest of the day.
What a fun time, Madison! We don’t have any big parks like that around here. I remember a couple times when we had our beagle Kobi and Lab mix Maggie, that Kobi escaped the house and Maggie would track him down for us. Good job, Bailie!!
Bailie is better at controlling my wild self than Mom is. Overall, I’m usually the better behaved of the two of us, but I was so excited about all the fresh new smells, I forgot all about behaving.
I know that minute the leash comes off routine, you guys seem a lot like all the labs I’ve known and that is way cool. Thank you so much for that ice boot link cuz that’s what I dislike most about winter and I rarely get through one without wiping out. Speaking of wiped, a good dog IS a tired dog, lol.
Icebugs are the best ever! Mom has tried YakTrax, cleats, all kinds of things but these are keeping her upright, easily.
That is nice that y’all get to run and play. Mom would never allow us off leash even in a fenced dog park. She is sooooo paranoid…and we don’t come when she calls us. BOL!
Mom says I had her on pins and needles the entire time, but she knows how much fun I had and that is what is important.
What a pawesome outing!!
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Rosy, Jakey & Arty
It was super fun.
WOW! I want to go to a park and run wild! Only I don’t usually come back even when Mom says”Go find
Chablis”. Sometimes if she says where’s Dad ? I’ll come.
Elbe
I’m usually pretty good about listening to Mom, but I was having way too much fun. She was happy I did show up when it was time to leave, and I let her put my leash on to get to the car.
Well we are not sure we would have liked the ice, Mom says we are big babies we don’t like frost on the ground but it sounds as if you had lots of fun. Tuiren doesn’t listen to Mom off leash but Fenris generally does, if he does run off Mommy just pretends to fall and he comes running to make sure she is OK. Cept we don’t think Mom was pretending to Fall we think she fell for real, there were HBO words involved in the “fall”.
We get those HBO words too sometimes when things don’t go right for Mom on a walk. Bailie is careful walking on ice, and I mainly stayed off road, so it wasn’t a problem. We love cold and snow, and being a blustery day made it all the better.
Iβd say that was a winner day to!
We had a really fun excursion!
Kudos to you, pet owners can get lazy at times. Taking your dog to such a beautiful park and give them their freedom is great to see!
Mom takes us all over the place. She likes us to have as many experiences as we can.
Great to here dog owners looking after their dogs with more exercise. We take our dog to the dog park 3 times a week.
We walk about 2 hours every day, but once and a while we go to a dog park for some extra fun.