Mom and I are thankful for friends and for the great outdoors. Even though much of our daily lives has not changed, Mom and we pups miss our sports…a lot! Yesterday, we met up at a local park with a sports friend and her dog for a nice walk. Meet Crush, a Shiba Inu, with furs that look super soft. He is a very nice boy, and we stuck to our doggy social distancing. Both of us do barn hunt, so we were super excited to see these bales in the woods, but sadly, we found no rats!
I was especially happy because Mom chose me to go along, and my sisters stayed at home. Mom makes a point to give each of us one on one time and we all treasure it. Crush is an only dog, so he always gets to do things with his mom. While the moms did the usual human chit chat thing, Crush and I each spent the walk sniffing our own side of the path. I also at a lot of fresh grass. It is really tasty in the spring!
Crush and I both made the mistake of following along with our humans, not knowing that both of them are directionally challenged. I was a bit worried when Mom said to her friend that she had no idea where we were! Lucky for us, we came upon a trail map. Crush’s mom tried to figure it out, but then my mom realized that she knew the spot we were at, and could confirm because my poop bag was in the trash can from earlier in our walk. Finally a good use for a used poop bag, LOL!
Our whole walk took about an hour and was real nice. Mom felt uplifted after getting to chat with someone else who has been down about not having any dog sports right now. Crush and I got a nice walk and lots of sniffing accomplished. It was starting to get warm out so it was a good time to head back home. Mom and I are both thankful for friends. You don’t have to touch friends to have any benefits. Just hanging out within the correct distancing guidelines works just fine! Hopefully we will get to go on another walk one of these days.
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oh how great to spend some time together!!! we love your super cute friend!!! the mama is sad too, that all our plans go to da berds… but with the new plan we can do 87 shows every weekend in december … we only have to get that time changing thingy from hairy potter LOL
It is really frustrating for moms. We enjoy training, but she likes the competition part.
That is a very cute friend, I’m glad you had some social time mixed with a beautiful walk, enjoy!
He is cute I tried to give him a kiss, but he was a gentleman and didn’t let me 🙂
Oh how nice to see a different face and have walkies and talkies! Life is so restricted these, and we do hope life will get better in due time. my mom really wants and needs to see her stylist…and get her nails and toesies done! XOXO, Sparkle
My mom does her own nails, but she says she will look like cousin It by the time she gets a hair trim. Luckily, she doesn’t have a short style, it just grows longer.
Looks like you had a good time out on the trail with your friends and the poop back spotting worked out well. Thanks for joining the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
It was good to hangout with friends for an hour or so for a change.
So nice to get out and talk to another person! That Crush is a handsome fella! I miss my friends too! I am looking forward to when we can get together again!
This whole thing makes no sense to us dogs!
Mom is so good to give you each one on one time. I know at some point you’ll be able to go on your hunts again. We’re all doing what we must.
I’m thankful I found you and your mom.
Have a fabulous Thankful Thursday. ♥
We are thankful we found you! We have no idea when we can get back to fun, but hopefully it won’t be too long.
What a nice day you had! Take care and make sure your family is safe and healthy!
Oh yes, lots of exercise and living in isolation, not much can happen.
We’re so glad you were able to get out for such a nice walk with your friends! Now, since both of you dogs are so good at scent sports, we wonder why the humans didn’t just let you lead the way? 🙂
They did discuss it, but were not sure if we would lead them to the car or follow the scent of another animal, LOL!
Ah! Yet another use for poop bags!!! how wonderful! Sorry the bales were “ratless”
Bales without rats are pretty boring!
I love eating grass too, Bailie, and your friend Crush is a very handsome boy! Every so often, we meet a friend along our walk and as long as we stay on our own sides of the street, the hoomans can talk all they want to. It’s a great thing for our moms!
My mom felt a lot better after talking to another friend who is in her same boat.
We are happy that you had a fun time with your friend Crush. It’s great that you had a great time during your walk. Thanks for sharing the lovely photos. Have a wonderful rest of your day.
Thank you. We did have a fun walk and I’m glad we didn’t get too lost. It was a fun time for all of us.
you’re lucky! We aren’t permitted to meet with ANY friends to walk, no matter how far apart we are………you’re only permitted to walk with family members that you live with.
Thankfully, that is not the case here and if it was, Mom would probably lie about who lives with us!
What a super fun thing to do! Here’s hoping, though, that we don’t have to do it this way for too much longer.
No kidding. The quarantine might kill us faster than the virus!
We were also able to make it out early and do some squirrel chasing.before it got crowded at our local park. No squirrels caught this time….lol..
One day we will catch one, just wait and see.
Glad you got to enjoy a walk.
It was just what we needed.
What a cute friend you have there.
He has such sof furs too.
You and your mom are so cute!
So glad you had a nice walkie talkie with your furriend and I really love his name💗😸Clean Pawkisses for a Happy Sunday to all of you. Stay Safe Healthy and Yourselfie🙏🐾😽💞
We had a real fun time.