The Dog Park...and the little guy

Well, not the little guy at the dog park!

Yesterday, I had been given a couple of suggestions for getting the little guy to nurse off of Giggles more than he had been. I tried both of them (at the same time) and supplemented him a couple of times and his weight stayed the same. :-( He still acts ok - he doesn't seem weak or anything. He just doesn't seem to be able to latch on to a nipple and hang on. I decided to get a different nipple for his bottle. The nipple I have allows a large amount of formula through will little effort. Maybe if the new nipple forces him to work harder, he will be able to work as hard as he needs to work to get milk from Giggles. I figure it's worth a shot!

As for the dog park, part of the idea of taking 1/2 days off work was that I would be able to attend to Gig and the babies early; take Busy and Marvin to the park; come home and shower and be on my way to work. So, today I took the older dogs to the dog park. The plan was that I would be able to walk for my TNT training, while the dogs would be able to run around. I spent more time turning around and looking for what Marvin was doing (to see if I had to pick anything up) than walking. :-( I put in less that 2 miles. I would have been better off taking my 2 mile out and back from home! Plus, there was a young large mixed breed that harassed Busy and then Marvin. (I think some sort of "doodle," but whether a person is compassionate and rescues a mixed breed or pays way too much money for a "doodle" from a "breeder," it's still a mixed breed.) It looked like the dog was an adolescent and didn't understand that "F Off" from a little dog means "back off." For him it seemed to mean, "I want to play - please whack me in the head with your giant paw." The owner seemed to be offended when both Busy and Marvin snapped at the dog on different occasions, after they had each growled at him for being obnoxious.

I guess tomorrow I will walk them on the out & back and maybe stop at the local dog park (this is one I drove to) for a spin around the park on the way home (when they might be slightly tired).