If it tastes like caviar, looks like caviar and feels like caviar, why do you keep telling me that's it's just "some plain roe"?  Well, I guess everyone can call it whatever it is.  Does that mean if we dump it right now, I'll be losing just "some plain roe", and you'd just lost some caviar...?

 

Chicken first or egg first?  Both, because God created them at the same time.  Trust me, you'd want them both in order for you to keep having the chicken and the egg.

 

I want a star on my hand... I want someone to give me a star on my hand...

Casper is 7 years old now.  Yesterday was the first day he went to an off-leash park. 

 

Casper has always been on leash when he went out, and I always thought that since he's not neutered, he'll definitely run away if I let him loose.  He is always so excited to see and greet dogs around the neighborhood, bark at the dogs walking by everyday, I thought off-leash park will be like heaven to him.  So yesterday when we went to the park, I took off the leash and then sat down, waiting for him to start roaming around, making friends and/or enemies with other dogs.

 

To my surprise, he was so uneasy at the park, so anxious and scared.  He never left me further than a feet or so, and whereever I walked, he followed, even to the point where he jumped up and just sat down next to me on the bench for the most part. 

 

I tried ignoring him, and pushing him out to play with other dogs.  When he didn't get my support or sympathy, he started looking around for other people (including strangers) to help him fend off other dogs.  I cannot believe it, especially when I saw him drooling so bad.  I don't remember how many pieces of paper towels I've used to wipe him, but he's still drooling non-stop.  SIGH!!

 

He did make some friends, of course, but those are all people, not dogs.  He was just interacting with humans mostly at the park, and tried to stay away from the dogs.  He was so relieved to see that we were finally planning to leave.  Although the first attempt was not successful, I think I will still bring him to the off-leash parks,  and hopefully the exposure will make him more comfortable around other dogs.  He IS a dog afterall...  Spring is approaching, a good time to go out more. 

 

BTW, there were no pictures to show this time because I felt bad taking poor Casper pictures like that, although afterwards I did think that it wasn't a bad idea to capture those memories.  Oh well.... there's always the next time.  Muahahaha.....