How we love play-dates!

I am so happy and thankful we have such a great group of friends who love having play-dates. Us hanging with friends, dogs hanging with doggie friends, what could be better? It brings joy to my heart :)

This is play date number two for Grace! Once again she was such a lady and enjoyed her self. Her, Riley and Red (who has grown so much since we last saw him!) wrestled and ran just about the entire time!

 DOG PILE!

Rawr! 

Red and Grace putting on their scary faces!

Aww Grace, that's his cheek haha

Handsome Red

  

Next we played some ball outside. All the dogs were great about sharing the ball, although at first Grace did express her distaste for the boys being faster then her :) Riley and Red would zoom after the ball and Grace ran behind, when either Riley or Red got the ball, Grace would bark a couple times as she caught up and then all three would run back haha.

Every once in a while the boys would let her win!

 Go Grace Go!

Red loves his tunnel!

Now, you can't have a fun play date without posing for some pictures

Riley and Red posing on the mini A-frame

Got to get Grace in there!

The boys and the tunnel.

Everyone smile! Aww Grace you blinked.

 Take two, Perfect!

Everyone had such a great time! And now I have two happy, tired pups

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On a different note, Grace had obedience class number two today as well! She is very anxious in new places, and there were lots of strange people and dogs she didn't know (well a lot for her, there's only 5 other dogs/handlers in class). She has done great thus far, but today we worked on downs... and she was not about to lay down with all the strange people around her. But thankfully our instructor is very patient and understanding (one reason why I picked her). It took about 15 minute before Grace did her first down and when she did, you would have thought she had done some spectacular trick with the way I cheered! YAAAY! GOOD GIRL! YOU ARE SO AWESOME! YOU DID IT!! GOOD GIRL GRACE! 

(Lots of treats and rubs ensued!)

After getting over the big hurtle of doing a down in front of all the strange people and dogs, the following downs were a bit easier!

Go Grace!

Spots everywhere!

Two posts in one day! WOOT :)

Riley and Grace love to wrestle! The first couple days we had Grace it was like this almost nonstop!!! It was kinda crazy!  But now, after about 2 weeks, they have a couple good wrestles a day and chill the rest :) Grace is usually the instigator, but Riley will start them every once in a while :)

I took this while I was on my lunch break, I didn't want to go back to work, I wanted to stay home and play with my dogs! They were obviously have more fun then I was haha :)

Doggie Play Date

During our agility classes I have become friends with some of the other students. One in particular is William, the Golden, and his handler. Since while in class we aren't suppose to let our dog mingle (we are there to do agility + safety reasons) we had talked about play dates for our boys. So yesterday we went over to our new friend's house and Riley and William hit it off right away! They are both roughly the same age, Riley at about 2yrs 6mo and William at about 16mo (I think).... Young rowdy boys!

One of the cool things was they had an inflatable pool! William knows where the make shift steps are, (weighed down storage containers) Riley not so much haha. So to avoid nails poking holes, the next time we go over we are going to get in the pool to teach Riley where the steps are when he is swimming.

 On land, there was lots of wrestling, body slamming, rolling around, even got some zoomies in there haha. It was so nice to find another dog that has the same play style as Riley. We did stop their play a couple times just to say, "hey guys, the moms are still here" and to give them some breaks, then sent them on their way to continue :)

We both had some TIRED puppies at the end of the day!