Rex Trulove
For the past 7 years, one of the dogs we’ve had has been Shady. She is a black lab that Cat and Carlos originally got as a pup. A few months ago, knowing that he wouldn’t be back for at least another 3 years, Carlos gave Shady to me.
On our way back, we decided to stop at the river since Shady was with us. Shady rarely gets to go on car rides and she loves the water, though she hates baths. One of the reasons we specifically went to the river was to let Shady go for a swim, as she’s doing here.
Shady loves having a stick thrown out into the river so she can go get it. In this case, she is actually not swimming out after a stick. We didn’t have any. So Cat simply picked up a rock and threw it out into the river. Obviously, that was fine with Shady.
To her, this is a special treat and she will keep swimming out for a stick or rock, repeatedly, until she is totally exhausted. She doesn’t want to stop.
On this outing, she got so tired that for three days, she couldn’t lift or wag her tail. Yet, if we’d gone back out, she would have happily gone swimming again.
