Dog Park

After much deliberation and not finding the time, I finally took Kai to the local dog park. I figured if she can handle boarding with dogs, she might be able to handle the park. So off we went in my car, having to brake and sent her onto the floor, almost marred the day. I hate trees that cover stop signs. Anyway she was a little shaken but not too stirred. When we got to the dog park we were the only ones there, I figured it was probably because is was a Monday. However, we were not there 15 minutes when another person arrived with their dog. Since Kai is over 20 lbs she had to play with the big dogs. Luckily, they were not too much bigger then she was. Kai was a little hesitant at first when the dogs came in, it seemed every 10 minutes, she really does not like them looking at her butt. Eventually, she moved away from my chair, I think she was protecting me and I went to talk to the other people. Soon, though not too closely, she was running around with the other dogs, she preferred it when a dog went off by itself away from the herd. Then she would engage it in play until surrounded. She met a dog named Goose, after the Tom Cruise movie, and they played for a bit. Goose is a cutie pie, English Lab, who his owner says is a bit slow. He will be a massive dog, and a definite gentle giant. All in all she met and did well with 6 dogs all running around the dog park. I had a hard time convincing her it was time to leave. And I was a little miffed that it seemed that some long time guests of the park broke the rules that they probably helped set, which was do not bring toys into the play area. We almost had a fight with one of the older dogs and poor Goose, who had no idea what was happening. IT was a ball that the owner brought in and was playing fetch with her dog, but Goose retrieved the ball after it landed at his feet and the other dog started snarling. Goose dropped the ball but it ticked me off that these people who were talking about the park like they owned it, did not have the common courtesy to put the toy away. I decided to leave because I did not want to have to state my mind on my first day there. Kai is now tired and I do not know if it will last throughout the day or if she will be her usual manic self at 7PM.