Last week's Doodle Romp

On Tuesday 12 July most of DragonRam’s local pups gathered together at Conroy Pit Dog Park for a Doodle Romp. Everybody was there except for Oliver (Jasper) and our new stud puppy Magnum. (And of course our current pups were too young to come and run around, as they haven’t been fully vaccinated, although we did bring Antares in the puppy pack so he could meet his new owner a second time before going home.) Garnet was still with us, so she came and met some of her half-siblings, and Galena was also there – it was great to see her again!

Zirci has faded from his original dark brown to a café colour. We figured he was likely to fade, given that his fur was not as dark to begin with as Sapphire’s (who is still deep chocolate). He looks very handsome!

Carni was his usual gentlemanly self, good to listen and eager to please. He has a coat with fairly close curls, like his father Ranger.

Galena stayed on her leash the whole time – at four months of age, she is still not quite trustworthy to come when called if she’s off leash. Apparently she copies everything Carni does – he’s a great big brother and good at teaching her what to do!

Garnet, our very petite Mama, is barely bigger than four-month old Galena! They weigh about the same (12 lbs) but Galena is not quite as tall yet. So Galena will likely be about 24 lbs when full grown and a good 16” tall – just a bit bigger than her mother Amore.

I’d brought along a ball and we took turns throwing and letting the dogs chase. Garnet, for all she’s little, is very fast and VERY ball-crazy, so she was after that ball like a rocket and frequently beat out the bigger dogs! Though sometimes one of the bigger boys or MoMo would get it.

It was a fairly warm evening and VERY buggy – we were slapping mosquitoes left, right, and centre as we walked since no-one had remembered to bring bug spray. To keep the bugs down we tended to stick to the more open spaces where the breeze helped blow them away. Next time we’ll go earlier in the day!! (And by fall there shouldn’t be nearly so many bugs around, either.)

We look forward to our next doodle romp sometime in late September, and hope that (Jasper) Oliver, Magnum, (Antares) Gatsby and Lyra will be able to join us, along with whichever other dogs ending up being local as well.