Monday Miles and Magnus Limp

By katie, on June 20th, 2011%

This was supposed to be an amusing anecdote about the hazards of dog walking, but Magnus has a limp and I’m not feeling very amusing at the moment.

Since I just spent the last two hours on the computer and phone trying to figure out what to do with my boy I’m out of time for posting, but I still do want to know how the week went for everyone. Let’s hear those miles!

Before the limp started we logged in 11 miles bringing us to a grand total of 130 miles for the year. I’m excited to be creeping up to where I won’t be behind anymore, although it doesn’t look like it will be in time for the Halfway Giveaway, especially if we end up doing crate rest for a sprain or something.

I hate mysterious symptoms. It’s probably nothing serious, but it brings back all the memories of Maizey’s knees and Meeka’s degenerative myelopathy. Not fun times in my life of dogs. I hate for my pups to not feel good!

So instead of amusing anecdotes about the hazards of bugs on walks I’m obsessing about strange limps and little boy puppies who don’t feel good. Please brighten my day with some amusing walking anecdotes of your own! I need the distraction, especially since it doesn’t look like we’re getting a walk in today.

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Monday Miles: Country Getaways

By katie, on June 13th, 2011%

To keep with the epitome of laziness I’ve been this last week, Monday Miles is late getting posted. But we really do want to know how the week went for everyone so lets hear those miles folks!

We managed 11 miles, bringing us to 119 for the year. We are on a country getaway to take care of Dare’s 4legged friends while she went on vacation with her mom and dad. It’s been a great trip! I planned on walking a lot down here, but there’s so much flooding our regular routes are closed and when we got down here I got into vacation mode and didn’t do near as much as I thought I would.

Magnus can fill you in on what we did instead:

"We got so lazy when we got here we didn't even walk much, instead we just laid in the shade. My poor Maizey's eyes are itchy and bad, I tried to lick them better and I got in trouble!"

"Frisbee's the best game ever! I'm the fastest boy here and always get it first!"

"This frisbee thing is great, but sometimes I just see red when I'm playing!"

"This is our 4legged friend, Twist. He's a cool kid, he likes to play frisbee too!"

"Then my Crazymomlady said I had to quit playing and learn my new Training Level's stuff. Do I really have to learn EVERYTHING on this list??"

“By the end of the days we were so tired from all that playing we had to take up the whole couch to get our rest. Tomorrow’s another day of frisbee!”

We head home tomorrow, but it’s been a great trip and we hope to get in a couple more country walks before we head back to the city.

Until then, let’s hear those miles!

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Tuesday Totals and Spring Flowers

By katie, on June 8th, 2011%

It was another banner Walking Challenge week with 1,430 miles as a final total. Great job everyone!

This weeks’ 4legged Walking Challenge lesson comes from Bert and Vicky. Bert explains, “. . . We only got 6 miles this week but we learned a very important lesson. WE had the time to do all 10 miles but if we had done that we wouldn’t have gotten the special one on one time we had with My Vickies mother.

She had seen all the great pictures of where we had been walking and called My Vickie and asked to come along. We couldn’t cover as much ground as we would have if we had gone a long (just me and My Vickie) but we would never have had such pleasant walks and wonderful conversation either.

My vickie and her mom are very close and so this time together was way worth the sacrifice in miles.”

We’ve enjoyed many walks with lots of different friends and though we may not cover as many miles, or do as much training, but we have a wonderful time! I find walking with different 2legged and 4legged friends keeps things fresh and helps get me out there on those days I may not want to as much.

Maybe inviting someone new on one of your walks would be a nice way to keep things fresh for you too.

We have another new member this week. Lydia has a set a goal of seven miles a week with her new 4legged friend Adonis, a Pit Bull St. Bernard cross. I hope walking together will be a good relationship builder for them. Welcome to the Challenge Team Adonis!

Magnus and Maizey want to tell you about our favorite walk from last week. We finally made it into the hills for a hike and it was gorgeous!

"We took our Crazymomlady for a hike to see wildflowers!"

"It was so bright and hot I could hardly keep my eyes open!"

"So we cooled off in the river."

Then we zoooomied for recalls!"

"By the end I was tired and DIRTY!"

"Come back tomorrow to see if my Crazymomlady remembered to pack ME for our trip!"!

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Tuesday Totals

By katie, on June 7th, 2011%

"We can't post Tuesday Totals cause we're zoomin' out of town!! Come back tomorrow to see where went and see how much we all walked last week!"

 

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