Well! Took the dogs to the park after dropping Richard off at work (as the snow's too much for his car so we need the dogmobile) and we were doing not too badly, apart from losing two tennis balls in the snow (Maddie's rubbish, she can never find them and by the time she's run round in circles using her nose as a dredger we've no chance of finding it!).
We met a boxer - Murphy thought about bullying him but he just looked at him so that was fine. Then we met them (Barney the boxer and owner) again as we headed for the entrance - Barney had found a large stick which he was clearly very pleased with... up stepped Murphy the "King of the Sticks" (in his own mind), who wanted the stick...
But Barney was having none of it! Murphy had a bit of a tug of war with him and they started growling at each other so I took the stick off Murphy (bribed him with a treat) but made the mistake of giving it back to Barney so the two of them went back at it, complete with growling and wrestling. Great! So Barney and owner (once they'd stopped after being yelled at) vamoosed one way and I took the stick off Murphy and put the lead on him. Then realised Maddie was bouncing round us bark-bark-barking... "shut up, Maddie!"
So I dragged Murphy off by the lead (he had it in his mouth so it was another tug of war - looked very professional, I'm sure!) and we made it back to the car...
I have to say we met another couple of dogs on the way who were lovely and we all got on well so it's not always so hectic!
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