Sunday - puppy, puppy, puppy

We arrived before 1:00 for our 1:15 volunteer shift today.  I wanted to be there early so we would be able to sign up for the puppies!

Yep!   Sure enough we were assigned to the puppy preschool.  Another hard day at work, playing with puppies.  How lucky can you get.   There were only  8  puppies in residence and they all have been adopted and await transportation to their forever homes.   They still need to be fed, walked, played with, cuddled and groomed until their departure, so that is what we did.

entrance gate to the green, shady puppy park where we spent our afternoon

There were two other volunteers assigned to the pups.  Dave and I took a couple babies and went to the attached puppy park for a romp in the grass and sunshine.   The other women took two puppies for a leash walk on the adjacent trails.   We rotated the puppies between free play and walks.  First out with us were Jessie and Po.  They are kenneled together, but are not littermates.

these two were to short to look over the dutch doors, so they watched from below

sweet Jessie.  it was hard to get a picture of her because all she wanted to do was be in our arms

oh look, her big girl molars are coming in!

a real snuggle bunny

shhh, don't tell her she's getting too big to be held

meet little Po
she was born here and her mother is still awaiting adoption
part pug, part chihuahua

Po liked all the toys, Jessie liked us....

Proof that we did actual work today.
picking up Po's poop

After a while, it was the "fromage five".  These were five high energy malamute mixes.  They all had cheese names, don't ask why, I don't know.     They raced around together, tumbling, growling, playing keep away, digging and knocking over things.  Constant motion even though they had just come back from a leash walk.
I'll try to remember their names, forgive me if I mix them up.

Parmesan

Brie and Asiago tussle on the run

Asiago watching

one of the cheese puppies starts a hole that O'Connor later enlarged

Cheddar and her sandy nose

The fromage five were called back into the kennel for their early dinner and we gathered up beautiful O'Connor for his turn in the park.   He is leaving next week for what we all hope will be his forever home.  He was already in a very good home, but a neighbor saw him in his yard and called the police....Pit Bull's were not allowed in his town so his heartbroken owner had to bring him back.....

O'Connor is a real, certified tennis ball boy

if the ball wasn't at the end of his nose, or in his mouth, it was under his chin

Uh Oh, my ball fell into the hole, gotta get it out, gotta get it out!

where's my ball?   a kong, a bone, a pink dumbbell thingy, where's my BALL!

nope, no siree, ya can't fill in this hole until I find my BALL!

Our time with the puppies simply flew by and our shift was over in the blink of an eye.   We had such fun.  All I can say is, its a good thing these cuties were all spoken for, especially Jessie.