Parker's favorite place

Parker just loves when he gets to go play with his friends at the dog park. It's great for us too, because he wears off some, I repeat, some of his energy. It's basically just a section of a huge park that is fenced off where dogs run and play together while the owners make uncomfortable small talk about each others dogs, or the weather. The area is pretty big, maybe 2-3 acres of grass, mud, trees and picnic tables. Every now and then, some naive family thinks it's a good idea to have a picnic lunch there, but they soon find out that the picnic tables and anything on those tables really belong to the dogs. They also have sprinklers and little doggie swimming pools to cool off in, and they get used quite often. There are usually between 10 and 30 dogs there on any given day and they are all going crazy, chasing each other and wrestling. I once saw this old lady get taken out by a Great Dane that wasn't watching where he was running. He hit her from behind and she went flying through the air. Luckily, she wasn't seriously hurt. It can be a hectic place. Here are some cool pictures that Blake snapped during the craziness that is the dog park.

This German Shepard was chasing Parker until Parker tripped over his own paws and got run over.

Stopping for a drink.
Here they go again.




Finally tuckered out.