Monday, March 3, 2008

Dog Park

On Sunday, the pugs went for a little road trip to Gainesville.  Their Grammy just had a pretty big operation last week and is currently in the hospital in Gainesville and the pugs came over to provide a little relief.  Well, not for Grammy since they aren’t allowed to visit but for their momma.  There is a huge dog park in Gainesville called Dog Wood Park and the pugs made the 2 plus hour drive to visit their momma and play at the dog park of course.

I didn’t have my camera so unfortunately I don’t have any pictures, but I really wanted to share this story anyway.  At the park, the boys and Luna met Jake, a bird hound mix, that was nicknamed Tigger.  Jake was almost 1 year old and he was the most energetic dog that I have ever met.  The dog park is 15 acres and he was pretty much running circles around that place.  He was really, really quick and he was jumping around like a wild man (hence the nickname Tigger).  He was running through the lake, bounding out running through sand piles, circling trees, jumping back in the lake, running around some benches.  Watching him was tiring me out.  There were several other labs there and Jake completely exhausted them.  After they got tired, they went to a more quiet section of the park, which left just Jake with only three little pugs to play with.  So here comes Jake leaping and bounding over to the pugs.  Benjamin, Henry & Luna are not the type to shy away from making a new friend so they immediately started to play.  However, to their dismay that could not catch Jake.  All three of them were running full steam and they just weren’t keeping pace.  Jake would have to double back and pass them and they would have to quickly switch directions.  Benny even started to whine as he was chasing after Jake because he wanted to catch him and he couldn’t.

Henry knew that he couldn’t beat Jake in running so he tried to outsmart him and predict his next move.  But he didn’t have any luck outsmarting him either.  Jake would just jump right over Henry and race off.

You know who gave Jake a run for his money?  Little, blind, Luna!  Before Sunday, I knew Luna was quick, and that she was the quickest of the three, but she showed me just how quick she was today.  The girl was flying!  She was tearing after Jake and she did a great job keeping up.  But just when she would get close, Jake would jump into the lake, and Luna, well, it didn’t matter how much fun she was having, she was not going in the lake to get him.  Instead, she would run along that edge of the lake taunting him, telling him to get out which Jake happily did and the chase would start all over again.

Watching the gang chase after a dog three times there size and really think that they could catch him really made my day.  It just goes to show that pugs really don’t know how big they are.  Especially, Little Luna, she was determined to catch Jake.  And wouldn’t you know it, the little girl almost did.

So Jake, thank you for exhausting my three pugs.  I haven’t seem them run that hard in a long time.  They had a great time and when we told Grammy that story it made her smile.  Pug fun, just what the doctor ordered.