A Day's Recap

6 - 10am. All my friends arrive and most of the time, we are out playing while everyone arrives. Every once in a while one of my friends has to be put away until everyone arrives because they get too snarky early in the morning. <woof>

If the weather is nice, we run through tunnels and playhouses, jump in and out of the pool, play with the toys, games of chase sometimes start but when we make too much noise or go too fast, we have to stop so no one gets hurt. But that's ok, we go on to find other things to do. We can play in the large area covered with small pea gravel or, we can play in one of the 6 separate grass areas if we don't dig a hole. <G> Some of the dogs just lie in the sun in the best spot they can find. First come, first served. <double woof>

If the weather is not so great, we play in the playroom or in the new outdoor sheltered dog sun room that is joined to the playroom. The little dogs, senior dogs and puppies frequently play with their own kind or in the house with the other dogs who can't handle the outdoor play.

10-10:15. Brief break in the dog playroom while some house dogs and special needs dogs are allowed out to to relieve themselves and the humans refill the buckets everywhere with water that we kicked over.

12-2:00 We nap. Yippee! We are ready for that and run to our favorite crates before they get claimed. Some of the canines want to go in the house but most of us, we want to go in the playroom with the music, temperature control, lights off and no one to bother us. Some lucky dogs get lunch.

2:00

Back out to play and see if anything new happened while we were napping. Great <G>, more fresh water in all the buckets to knock over. Oh ... the pool is drained for the snow coming up but yipee!!! we can still jump in it so that's ok. Hmmm, energy level is much slower now, wonder what time's dinner? Hmmm, it also smells like someone tried to cover the smells we left this morning, better lift my leg around here somewhere.

4 - 4:30

Well, we are barking and ready to come in. Tired and hungry. Time to go to a crate to rest until Mom/Dad come to get us. The vet said it is important to make sure we settle our stomachs for at least an hour before and after any meal to avoid tummy upset. This means I can nap and then go home and eat. <G> And then nap some more.

5:30

Dinner (if we are staying the night) is finally fed. Then nap again for 1 to 1.5 hours. Then the night flood and sensor lights come on and we go out to play until 9pm.

9pm. Whew, ready for bed myself, thank goodness it is time.