See Spot Run, Run Spot Run!

I am a dog who loves long walks. I even love short walks. Or any walk. I am also a dog with very, very short legs so any walk with my people is more like a run for me. Then my people decided that they wanted to run...do you have any idea how fast my little legs have to go to keep up with that?! I figure that I average about 6 steps to each one of their steps, so when we go for our morning run/walk covering an average of 4 miles at about a 10 minute/mile pace I am actually using roughly 36,870 steps!! Are you kidding me? No wonder my little paw pads are in need of a pedicure.

Anyhow, my people did some 5k race and left me in the car (of course) even though I went on about a hundred 'training' runs with them and easily could have beat every person there. But afterward they shared their medals with me and gave me some banana bread so it was all good.

I am thankful for all the exercise I get because I have discoverd that there is an endless supply of lizards here that are all just waiting to be chased...they are fast little buggers and I have no idea what I am going to do with the first one I catch!

While I enjoy walks/runs, I do not particularly care for swimming. I'll do it if I have to, but it is not my favorite thing. I have found that if I wait patiently in the shallow water, or if I bark loud enough, that I will get the toy/ball or whatever the fetching object is one way or another. Rarely do I have to go in and swim after it tho!

Swimming in the pool was okay - at least the water tasted better than at the beach. But the beach is still my favorite place to play. When Uncle Chris came to visit we went to the beach a lot! There were a lot of dolphins playing, but they were too far away for me to swim out to them, but my lab friend tried to. I was never sure which was a dolphin or a shark...

Aaahhhh - I LOVE the beach!!! I am going to miss this place.