Denver, CO

Meet my three dogs (I’ll try to post some pictures in a later blog!)
I have a male 5yr old Chocolate lab named Ozzy
a 8yr old female Chocolate lab named Belle
and a 5yr old male Golden retriever named Yari (I am just babysitting him until August)

On our walk today around a Denver-area pond, I witnessed a funny and blog-worthy dog moment…
Now, Denver has leash laws, but my dogs aren’t the best at following these particular rules. So my male dog Ozzy, and his endless abundance of energy runs in, and out, and all around the pond on our walk. He has never, ever in his five years stopped to roll around in the grass, which is a favorite pastime of Yari, the golden retriever I’m watching for a friend. Well today, either Ozzy picked up Yari’s habit or the temptation was too great, but Ozzy stopped to roll around. I thought it odd that he stop his usual activities on the walk to run suddenly to a particular area near the water… But the scent of the area and the urge was too much for my male, and to my disgust I found him rolling directly on a large, dead fish washed ashore! He chose that one, very specific spot to roll around for the first time ever. It was like he had to roll on a dead fish, that he hadn’t really lived a dog life until he had done so…Bizarre creatures…
So we get home and, I admit, I talk to my pets. I says to Ozzy I says, “I know what you’re going to try to do, you’re going to go lay down on my nice new Tempurpedic bed with the sheets I just washed and make it smell like fish, aren’t ya?”
To alleviate my fears of my dog doing so, I take him out back and proceed to give him a bath. The entire time I’m spraying the hose or rubbing in shampoo, my Ozzy is giving me those puppy dog eyes as if to say, ‘what’d I do to deserve this? It was just one fish…”
I feel like telling him that, “no, Ozzy, it doesn’t matter where you found the fish, what kind of fish it was, or even how many there were. Every time you roll on a dead fish, you’re getting a bath.” But that’s the problem of being a dog owner; he’d never understand me and there so cute, you always forgive them anyway!

Hopefully this blog will generate some great pet stories from readers. C’mon readers, lets hear your favorite pet stories!