Cabana's Wonderful Weekend

On Saturday, our puppy raising group had a booth at the Bodega Bay Fish Fest. Cabana got to hang out for a couple hours, getting admired and petted by lots of people. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it.

While there, Cabana got to play a bit with big boy Dagan, a 6-month old puppy-in-training.

She also hung out with retired breeder Trent. Here's the top of his big ol' bison-y head.

On Sunday morning, the weather was gorgeous, and we took a 2.5 hour walk.

I didn't mean to walk that long...but we met such fun dogs along the way that we kept stopping to play.

Toward the end of our walk, we crossed paths with the GDB trainer that lives in our neighborhood, along with his wife and career changed German shepherd Dillon. The trainer commented on how settled and well-behaved Cabana seemed now. In the past, we ALWAYS seemed to cross paths when Cabana was lunging and carrying on like a wild lunatic--QUITE embarrassing. I told him that she might seem much better today due to the fact that we'd been walking for 2.5 hours! Still, Cabana was well-behaved enough that we let Cabana and Dillon romp around off-leash for a while. It made me realize that Cabana HAS come a long way. Even a few months ago, I wouldn't have been able to do that, fearing that she wouldn't come back to me--and might embarrass me further. But she had a great time with Dillon, who is huge but as gentle as a kitten.