9/9/10

Today Little Paws' Big Adventures went out to the Albany Bulb. The weather was absolutely perfect, the tide was high. It was a totally gorgeous day. Poppy, Alba, Blue, Turnpike and I had a girls day at the oceanside. I was really impressed by how much Poppy loved playing in the surf and getting wet playing fetch with various pieces of driftwood. Alba and Blue also had a really great time joining in in the endless games of fetch. The three of them love playing in the surf. When Poppy would leave the surf, she'd immediately start wrestling and chasing Pike around the sandy beach.

We have lots of room on thursday afternoons for more friendly small dogs to join us on our trail playgroups and hikes!

9/8/10 Welcome Coby!

Yesterday Coby joined us on his first hike sans parents. We often randomly meet up with him and one of his parents while hiking at Redwood Park and today was a treat as always with lots of play time, including lots of playtime at home with Turnpike.

Also with us on our morning group hike were Lulu, in the grey and pink sweater, and Charlie. All of the "kids" played around a lot, chasing each other at games of mad dash up and down the trail, with Charlie and Turnpike also running around and exploring up off the trail in the woods.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday morning groups still have a few openings. If you'd like your little dog to join us, we'd love to meet you! Please visit our website for contact information and rates: www.LPBA.net

Monday

Yesterday we had 7 small dogs in our midday trail play group. We went to Strawberry Canyon and all the dogs had a great time running around playing chase and fetch and exploring the woods.

Lulu played mostly with Charlie. Poppy engaged everyone at some point, including Parker, who is normally only interested in his pine cone. Charlie got lots of running time in with Poppy, Figaro, Murphy, Turnpike and Lulu. Parker was very friendly and loving today, I think it may have been the pocketful of chicken jerky though :).

Wednesday at Redwood Bowl

Hi All! Karin Cornwall finally got some decent footage of everyone on our hike on Wednesday. Lately we've been hiking in Redwood/Robert's park around the Redwood Bowl because there's a bathroom! and a water fountain! and a dog bowl! and no foxtails! and minimal poison oak.

Little Paws' Big Adventures is filling up our groups with wonderful small dogs who love people and running around in the woods with other small dogs. We serve Piedmont and the surrounding Oakland neighborhoods. Please visit our website: www.LPBA.net for more information.

July

July has been a very busy month for Little Paws' Big Adventures! Karin Cornwall, the owner and usually sole operator had knee surgery. Poppy, who had been boarding for over a month, went home. Zoey Zotigh and her sister Amy Merchant took over walks for the first couple of weeks while Karin recuperated from knee surgery. Last week, Prema Polit started helping Karin with driving and eager dogs on leashes (the kind who might pull Karin off course). This week, we're going back to normal with Karin doing the dog walks on her own, and pet sitting. Prema will continue to help Karin with boarding clients. Big thanks to Zoey, Amy and Prema for helping out in this critical time, keeping everybody hiking and happy!

Romeo's Boarding

Romeo and Poppy are both boarding in Karin Cornwall's home this weekend. Turnpike is thrilled to have more dogs around to play with all day long. Also on the hike above is Charlie, who had his morning romp on the French Trail at Redwood Park. There is a TON of poison oak down there, but no foxtails! These summer days, a trail without foxtails is quite a find, even if everyone including the dog walker has to have a serious bath afterwards.

Little Paws Big Adventures is looking for a few friendly small dogs to join us for morning hikes weekdays. Visit our website to learn more: www.LPBA.net

Happy Pride!

Welcome Ruki!

Ok folks, I don't know if you remember, but Alba is a pure-bred Papillon who looks like she's crossed with a cavalier king charles spaniel.  This guy, on the left is Ruki.  Ruki greeted me so happily at Alba's door when I went ot pick her up yesterday, and I thought, "my goodness Alba, you sure have changed!"

Ruki is a great guy!  He loves to chase and play on the beach.  His recall is pretty good, although he does get distracted, and he loves to hump other dogs, but hey, you can't win 'em all right?  Overall we loved having him around yesterday to fill out our pack, and he loved playing fetch in the waves and chasing the sea foam.

Figaro joined us yesterday too.  Figaro got to spend about half of his hike dragging his lead.  This is a step into hiking off leash.  Figaro was obsessed with tearing up and eating the seaweed on the beach, so I'm glad I had him on lead to distract him from the seaweed and bring him back into the games of fetch and chase.

I didn't get any good pics of Blue, but she was there too and absolutely loved games of fetch into the waves and was happily frolicking along with Alba and Poppy, who actually swam in the surf, much to my amazement.

All in all, it was a great day.  Ruki, we hope to see you again soon!