My dogs love to play in our back yard. There are a couple of relatively flat areas on different levels and then a steep, wooded area behind it all. The run and play and play-fight and just have a great time.
It was really wet early in the week so I didn’t let them play much – they got so muddy so quick! But then the cold moved back in and the ground froze.
The boxer, Fiyero, loves to play with a ball. Sometimes he wants to play with me with it, sometimes he just likes it close while he does other things, usually keeping a paw on it at all times. But sometimes he plays on the hill. Some new paths have opened up an it was possible for the ball to roll down a path that descends more than 25 vertical feet (8 meters). Of course if he doesn’t stop it by then and it hits the drive, it might roll down another 5 clever feet into the church that’s next door neighbors to us. Continue reading