Hi, we just want to make sure that it's easy for Cemil to get to and from the parking lot.

Thanks, the chauffeur

I don't know what to say. I'm thinking we should limit Cemil's activity and see how that works. Unless there was a place where the walk in wasn't quite so far. Is there such a place?

What a beautiful day for a pawty!!!

The sun was shining, the dog park was mud free, except by the river, the grass was green and the sky was soooo blue.

Cemil, Tani, Obie and Shelby were accompanied by their peeps for a get together of old friends. Cemil looked great, he had lots of energy, thanks to Mary making sure he kept his cruising to a minimum, Tani was cruising around and Obie was learning more about socializing and Shelby had a ball, or three or four.

We must have met 20 new dogs and and their peeps. There seemed to be a ton of Pugs there yesterday, mostly the buff color, a couple of Australian Shepherds, some labradoodles and several King Charles Spaniels. I had always heard about Pharaoh Dogs, the Egyptian dog, but had never met one until yesterday. Really large pointed ears, amazing. He was 15 but quickly chased off a dog he did not care for.

I'm not a dog park person but in the year and a half we have been going to the Mill Valley Dog Park we have met some incredible people and their dogs.

It's always so great to see our friends Mary and Karen. I just can't imagine a better way to spend the day.

the chauffeir

Lucky's mom sent this picture of him and Cemil. Lucky was a guy Cemil really wanted to play with.

So I'll share what the secret weapon was–energy bars.  Online, I found some that are made for hunting dogs and got people ones with roughly the same ingredients.  Next time I'll have the dog version. I think they really helped. I have a hard time stopping Cemil from going off to meet people, since it's his favorite thing to do. He's always so happy at the dog park. He seems to have as little self-control around fun things as I do.

"Nice day, nice park, and great to see friends"…yes!

Mary

The ones I ordered (made for dogs, but they haven't come in yet) are called Team Realtree Xtreme Fuel Booster Bars. The ones I actually gave him this time were PowerBar Protein Plus Vanilla Yogurt flavor, that I picked up at the grocery store. I didn't see anything that I thought would hurt him, but they are made for people, not dogs. Oh well–they worked!