It’s been a while since we’ve made a post on the blog. Not sure why that is – just lazy I guess. We’ve been doing a lot of running, Max and I. We usually head down to the watershed on the weekends, and I usually don’t take a camera. Yesterday was a day off for me, so Max and I headed over to Surrey Lake.

It’s a man-made lake, and wetlands, designed to protect the farmlands. It’s got a trail around and up a fairly steep hill. On top of the hill horses graze. The run down the backside of the hill is nicely lined with trees, then you break out over the flats of the wetlands.

Max really gets excited when we get close to the parks where we run. He sits up and starts whining eagerly, prancing on his seat. All the little creatures get him scampering all over.

He’s much better around people when we’re on a leash. He used to react to people who got too close. But we’ve managed to calm that down a bit. Still working on his in-home behaviour when visitors arrive – I’d like him to be a bit calmer when he sees we are ok with whoever has arrived. We had a technician from the cable company and he was better. Not great, but getting there.

I tell you tho, he has the most hysterical habit of playing with his stuffed toys. I’ve seen dogs take toys and shake them and rough house them, but Max takes them and TOSSES them WAY into the air. They even wind up on the table! It’s so funny, and he stands there with his mouth wide open in a big smile! It’s really too funny.