Tag: Barkley

Barkley has been discovering that it’s a lot of fun at the dog park, especially when there are other dogs to play tug with and go chasing after (or be chased by)

A few picture of Barkley in action at the dog park.
Macho and Barkley playing Follow the Leader

Running with the Flying Squirrel

Barkley found a discarded water bottle to chew on

Barkley goofing around with one of the other dogs

Barkley made his first trip to the dog park today. We stayed there for a couple of hours and aside from the first few minutes of greeting and sniffing, he was pretty much non-stop running the entire time.
If he wasn’t chasing down (or being chased) by one of the boxers, he was wandering around exploring, wrestling or playing with the other dogs. Didn’t get to test out his retrieving instinct because he was too busy having fun with the other dogs to notice the ball.
It was definitely nice to see him running off all of that excess energy. If anybody out there with an active lifestyle is looking for an active young lab, I have one for you.

After a trip to the vet, Barkley is now free of the last staple from his neutering operation. Taking it out was definitely a non-trivial operation too. This last one managed to get crimped around some skin at one end, and required some extra bending and a big yank to remove it. Barkley tolerated it pretty well, although I know he wasn’t enjoying it. It was a big honkin’ staple too. Even the vet was was surprised and commented that it wasn’t the usual skin staple that would normally be used.
It’ll be a couple more days before Barkley can head out to the dog park while the area finishes healing. Looking forward to that day. It can’t come a moment too soon.