Me & Mom have had two really nice walks this week and she’s just feeling like she needs to write in my blog AGAIN this week! Sheeesh…..she’s such a yakker lately! So here goes…I’ll let her have the keyboard now….
Maggie LOVES it up to the golf course….we have been taking her up there in the Spring before the golf season starts, since she was just a baby(2000)…probably she was 6 months when she first went up there. There was still ice on the pond that day…she was loose…she walked on the ice and what I was scared of…happened, she fell thru! She was just near the edge…I freaked out and told my hubbie to go in there and get her!!!! In the meantime, Maggie just stayed put…never moved…must of been cold! He got her(it was only knee deep or a bit higher but she was only 6 months old!)…. We’ve never forgotten that day and since then steer clear of the ponds in the Spring.
Then there’s the Canadian geese that are at the golf course alot. When Maggie was a bit older…I have a picture of her sitting up there just staring at those HUGE birds…with her ears crossed in the middle of her head…yup, they stayed that way for longer than I thought…so long I was worried her ears would stay that way! That was the day she learned to also chase geese.
She loves to RUN at the golf course….wide open spaces – so much fun for her to run and stretch that greyhound-like stride out. And we have little games like tag…I tag her actually and then she tries to bomb me 🙂 And there’s painted steel markers in various places and I taught her many years ago to do her agility contact behavior of nose touching them by me telling her from a distance “go touch” and she races to the plate and nose touches and waits for me to throw her a treat…
She and I were having so much fun tonight…I was doing a few sits and downs with her…and we just stayed there for a few minutes soaking up the sun while she layed down and she showed me her belly..oh and got some well deserved treats of course… Maggie my treat monster!
So….yup, I cried during our walk…out of happiness seeing her soooo happy!!!! I didn’t realize until later, that it was also her 6 month ampuversary during that walk…what a great way to celebrate it!
And then our walk tonight, once again, I got all teary eyed for Maggie. We went on a trail that she hasn’t been on since well before last August. That hit me like a rock… She was again, soooo happy….smiling away…doing her Tripawd jog that she does with grace and style…just soaking up all the smells! It’s so easy to see Maggie’s emotions…she wears them on her sleeve….and when she’s happy….WOW…it just makes ME so happy for her!
I’m hoping to venture on other trails with her now that the snow is gone…hoping to take her a little farther each time… I just LOVE to see her so happy and enjoy the little things….the little things that count the MOST now.. After all she has been through, I just want her to enjoy herself …. because she oh so, deserves it.. She’s a good girl and deserves a better year this year than last year…
Here’s to better days ahead Mags!
Tracy