Two Weeks with a Dog

Kalli, shown here

   

     This is my grandparent's dog, Kalli. For two weeks, my grandparents were on vacation visiting my cousins in Florida. They own a dog, shown above. For the two weeks they were away, Kalli stayed with us.

     Their dog is a labradoodle, or labrador-poodle mix. Almost every morning, I walked her on the local bike path. We have had her before, last September. She has gotten much better about not chasing bikes and runners, but I am not able to control her when she sees another dog. She has pulled the leash, and me, so hard that I tripped and fell in the snow.

     I enjoyed having Kalli, because it was fun to play tug-of-war and catch with her. It was also funny to watch her watch the fish in our fish tank and try to jump and get them. We have neighbors with a dog, so we brought Kalli do
wn to their house and the dogs played in their backyard. What was definitely my least favorite part about having her was picking up her poop.

     On another dog-related topic, I found this thought-provoking article on domesticating foxes. Here's a link to it:
(right here)