Run, Jack, Run

Feb 9 – We went to a church dinner tonight. It was raining. We put Jack out, but apparently he hasn’t a clue what a dog house is for. He must have sought shelter under a bush. Anyway, when we got home and let him in his legs and chest were covered in mud. He must have just curled up in the mud. What a mess! We had to put him in the bathtub and then keep rinsing him off and rubbing him down until all the mud was off of him.

Feb 11 – Last Thursday my husband, Kent, calls me at work and says that whatever Jack tells me when I come home, it isn’t true. Well,Kent can get a bit preoccupied sometimes and even forgets to eat on occasion. Usually our son Bryce is home in the evening and he takes care of feeding the dog. If Bryce is out then Kent or I do it. But I work Mon-Fri on the PM shift so I cannot do it on those nights. On Thursday, Bryce was out late at school. Kent completely forgot about feeding the dog. Jack was prancing around the kitchen and doing everything he could think of to get Kent’s attention, but it wasn’t working. So Jack came into the kitchen, picked up his food bowl with his mouth and brought it to Kent in the living room. SMART DOG!

So on Friday night I called home at about 8 PM and told Kent that Jack had asked me to call to make sure he’d been fed. Kent just cracked up. Then on Sat night, Lori, a friend from my work, called and got Kent and told him she’d gotten an email from Jack asking her to call and check to see if he had been fed yet. It was sooo funny!

Saturday we took Jack to the Fremont dog park for the first time. We’ve gone to the Union City one in the past. Jack had a bit of trouble finding other dogs who were interested in playing his Run, Jack, Run game. See he doesn’t just want to run with the other dogs, he is only happy when he is leading and they are chasing him. He finally found a miniature husky that would chase him, but the poor dog could not keep up with Jack and lost interest. It was pretty funny.