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<DIV>Well we made it back to the dog park today!! We haven't been for a couple of weeks because of Cyrus having a tooth pulled. Obviously they have to put a 110 lb dog under to do that and he took a while to recover. The other problem is that Cyrus is a fetch addict and even if I don't throw anything he will still be chasing and catching and grabbing all kinds of yucky stuff in his mouth at the park so we thought to let him rest a while and let the socket they stitched up heal. Snoopy was MOST inconvenienced. Snoopy does not appreciate having anything cut into his social calendar. Marathons, medical procedures, school band performances, religious holidays and most everything else need to be worked into his calendar by his administrative assistant (somehow this job falls to me) and failures to coordinate are NOT taken lightly. Sheesh. I am NOT his slave (am I?). Oh dear .......</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway, we went to go to the dog park today and so I got out the ramp and he turns and looks at me like "well, how about a boost?" Wait a minute .... my husband used the ramp in his car and Snoopy ran right up the ramp and sat on the seat and my husband folded up the ramp and put it in the trunk. So I told Snoopy ... go ahead .... well, Cyrus leaped over the top of him and sat down on the seat and then Cyrus started to whine and Snoopy is still sitting here looking at me like "well, how about a boost?" So I picked up my 70 lb Snoopy using the basset lift and set him on the seat and folded up the ramp and put it back in the trunk and we went to the park. Snoopy LOVES the dog park. He howls a good bit of the time but he REALLY enjoys it. He made another friend. Last time we were there he offended this little girl dog by getting in her face and she let him know in NO uncertain terms that he was RUDE and
she was having NONE of it. Well, he finally calmed down last time and made a different friend and they played chase. This time that dog wasn't there but the little girl dog was and he trotted right up to her and sniffed her behind instead of her befront and she responsed by sniffing his behind and then .... they played chase. Snoopy chased her and when she stopped he stopped and turned away and then she went after him and he ran and when he stopped she stopped and turned away and then he went after her ... and back and forth ... just the way dogs are SUPPOSED to play. I seriously think I am watching a 5 year old dog learning to play and take turns. </DIV>
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<DIV>He has a problem with wolves though. On the one hand I don't blame him, wolves have never really been domesticated and here in California it is even illegal to have them as pets but it doesn't stop anyone. Snoopy does NOT like wolves. There is a sweet girl wolf named Roxie who is friends with Cyrus and she's always at the park and Snoopy REALLY wants NO part of her. It is kind of embarrassing because she usually bounces right up to me and Cyrus and Snoopy will SNARL and his hackles all go up and he just AHROOOOOOOOs frantically and Cyrus and I are like .... get off it Snoopy, she's sweet but he wants NOTHING to do with her. There is another lady with two wolves who lives near the park and if she hears Snoopy she brings her boys down and keeps them outside the fence to try to get him used to them but he doesn't seem to be improving with the wolves .... it looks like he HATES them ... seriously .... and all different
colors (well, they're all mostly white but some are red tipped and some are black tipped and some are grey tipped) and all different sizes and genders ... his reaction to wolves is fairly intense and it's very consistant. Is this a basset thing? Or do folks think Snoopy encountered a wolf when he was a stray and it wasn't pretty? Advise please??</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for all the tips. I cannot believe that next week will be 3 months since we brought our Snoopy home. In some ways it feels like Snoopy has always been in our family, and in others it feels like yesterday.</DIV>
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<DIV>--Dale (momPerson to Cyrus and Snoopy)</DIV>
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<DIV>Snoopy <A href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/1182550" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1302212606_1 class=yshortcuts><FONT color=#810081>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/1182550</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV>
<DIV>Cyrus <A href="http://www.dogster.com/dogs/1182554" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1302212606_2 class=yshortcuts><FONT color=#810081>http://www.dogster.com/dogs/1182554</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN id=lw_beacon_1302212606230></SPAN></DIV>
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