Swim, swim, swim

Here we are at the lake again, a little less relaxing for us this year with two young, exuberant, partially trained (read: partially UN-trained) dogs.   It’s fun to show them the ropes, though, and have the other dogs help train them as well.   We arrived to very nice weather– temp in the low 60s, but mostly sunny.

Here are some pictures, mostly centered around swimming, of course.  The first one is Don throwing a dokken bumper for the dogs (Lola, Thistle, Sport, Ronan).  You can see the string and ball at the top of the picture.

We’ve been trying to get the boys to jump off the dock.  All our current dogs are dock “divers”, to one degree or another (K’ is now falling off the dock rather than jumping, but she doesn’t seem to mind too much).

Here’s Don encouraging Thistle to jump.

Thistle hasn’t started jumping consistently yet.  He jumped a few times yesterday, then after going underwater a couple times he stopped jumping (but he clearly really wants to).

Here are Sport, then Lola demonstrating their jumping form.

Ronan started jumping off the dock today, and is getting more confident with every jump.  Here’s one of his first jumps– not much lift, but that will come.   What a change from the puppy that fell into the lake at this time last year then didn’t want to swim.   This is the only posted photo that shows all the dogs-  Lola, Ronan, Thistle, K’Ehleyr, and Sporty.

Other than that, we’ve done a couple short hikes… some of the dogs and I got attacked by yellowjackets so I lost half a day while in a Benadryl coma.   Right now Ronan is curled up next to me on the couch, watching the fire while I type this post.

I hope you all are enjoying fun, relaxing times with your dogs as well.