Douglas: Swimming with the Ducks

How far will this little Pug go for his tennis ball obsession? Straight into a duck pond, that is how far.

On our walk today we stopped by the duck pond to look at all of the ducks for a minute. Well Douglas spotted a muddy tennis ball bobbing at the water's edge. He pawed it out and was rolling it around along the bank. When he rolled it back into the water and it started to float away I thought, at least I don't have to worry about taking his treasure away anymore. I was wrong.

Douglas went STRAIGHT into the water after it. He had water almost up to his belly before he was able to get his mouth on it. I decided then and there that he deserved that ball after he dove straight into the water for it. This is a dog that does not even like walking out in the rain. I think he had similar thoughts in his mind because he carried this ball in his mouth with him for the rest of the ENTIRE walk. He would not even drop it to say hi to a fellow Pug owner that he sees quite often and usually goes crazy for.

You should have seen the mud trail he made when he got home with his new ball. (Don't worry, I cleaned it all up before we left.) After some serious scrubbing with soap and disinfectant, the ball was deemable as a tennis ball again. Douglas was pretty excited about his newly founded treasure. I will admit that he was a little sad that it smelt fragrant after my thorough revamp. Sorry Douglas, no more putrid mud and duck pond water odor anymore, but at least now your mom might let you keep it.

**(No pictures today. It always seems some of the best picture moments come when I forget my camera. I would have loved to had a picture of Douglas belly deep in a pond. You can't even find a picture of a Pug in water little alone in a pond on the web.)