Ole day10

We started our day today after the standard 6:00 pee and poop ( Ole's), with a family walk down the boardwalk. Ole scored 3 people interactions as well as multiple sits during the passing by of fast moving bicyclists. Ole was calmer with bikes today. I was hoping for some rollerbladers and skateboarders, but it was misting rain and there weren't any to be found. I had an appt to get my back worked on so I left Elmo and Ole with Abner and took Shelly with me . She likes Dr. Phil and enjoyed laying on the floor of the treatment room while he pounded the Ole induced kinks out of my back. You try lugging 25 lbs of dead weight puppy through two airports to from Wisconsin to San Diego and see what it does to your back! He is worth every kink in my back and I would do it again. I'm just glad I didn't wait until he weighed 29 lbs!
When we got back , our friend and neighbor Patt came by with her sweet shih stzu Tobey. She had heard through the grape vine (Abner) about Ole and wanted to check him out. Ole scored another human and dog for his list of social contacts. Tobey was pretty blase' as most beach dogs are about Ole, but Patt scored high in ear rub technique.
The rest of the day until 2:00 we just hung out , got some house work done and worked our fetch practice and some basic obedience skills, sit, down, stand, and leave it from the hand and on the ground. i got Ole's class bag packed for him and Abner as they had puppy school tonight. Shelly and Elmo and I had to go pick up my friend Donna and her dog Ginger and drive to Tustin for our K9 nose work class, so the boys were going to be on their own. We watched some of the puppy play time. Ole was matched up with a couple of puppies that were kind of rough with him. He left them and went over to the calmer gentler puppies that were sitting at the sidelines. I was glad to see that as I don't want him to be bullied by rough puppies or to learn to play rough. It's why he won't be going to any dog parks anytime soon. Besides the disease factor, there are a lot of out of control dogs at dog parks. The last thing on earth I want is for my young dog to be bullied or attacked at a park. Many people who take their dogs to dog parks cannot control their dogs and or don't pay enough attention and bad things happen. The dogs most likely to be attacked are the young ones under the age of 3 years a very impressionable time. Later after Abner and Ole came home , some old friends John and his wife, Lee dropped by to meet Ole. Ole did his best impression of a puppy with giant feet for them greeted them in a calm and friendly manner , chewed his bone and then fell asleep at John's feet. He'd had a long day>