I managed to keep Rufus out of the pond all day yesterday.  Let me tell you, it was no SMALL feat!  He normally gets up and goes outside first thing  for his “morning constitutional” and makes a bee-line straight for the pond.  This is his morning ritual from about March (when the pond melts) ’til November (when the pond freezes).  In fact, he gets in the pond every time I let him outside, but the morning just sets the tone for the day.  He is wet and lazy all day long.  Its kinda gross, but I can’t keep him out of it.

I knew I was going to be meeting my friend and her greyhound at the nursing home for a therapy visit last night so I had to be ever so vigilant to keep him dry.  Much to his chagrin he went out to potty on leash in the morning.  Then same for the afternoon.

6:15 rolls around, its time to leave for the nursing home.  He charges in and does his rounds.  He doesn’t like to stay in one room too long, he knows there are so many people to see.  If we walk past a door that isn’t open or a room because the resident is sleeping he wants to go in.  He will stand at he door and look at me like.. umm mom you are forgetting someone.  He just loves it and laps up the attention.

Next we head to Petsmart.  I had to pick up replacement filters for the Big Dog Drinkwell.   I tell you this, that thing is great!  The dogs love it, it filters out their slobber and they have clean water all day.  I do have to fill it up several times a day since I have 6 dogs, but when I was using the bucket, I had to do the same thing and towards the bottom the water got icky.  The replacement filters are $9.99 for 3 at Petsmart.  They are $6.95 on the Drinkwell site, not sure how much shipping is.

At Petsmart Rufus was a little excited and needed correcting a couple of times when he first went in.  But once he walked around for a few minutes and settled down, he was a perfect gentleman and greeted a black lab x dane who was not too sure about how big he was.  LOL.  I just need to get him out more I think.  And dont you just know as soon as we got home Rufus went outside and got in the pond!

Well, it looks like it is going to be a glorious sunny (but chilly day) day so I need to get off the computer and get ready to go outside and play.