Water Dogs

Yesterday we headed out to the 'burbs to Jody's aunt and uncle's place in Homewood for a doggy date with Charlie and their dog, Favor. Charlie loves going to Homewood. I mean, how could he not? He gets to run around their beautiful yard and even gets to swim in their lake.

We weren't sure if Charlie would remember how to swim since it'd been about a year since he braved the water with Favor. You see, Favor is a pro. Along with being a super cute, super sweet pooch, she's also super trained. She goes ducking hunting with Roger and is a total natural in the water. I swear, she swims so gracefully that it almost looks like she's a seal! Charlie, though less gracefully than Favor, definitely remembered how to swim and jumped right in the water.

He started out just paddling around, drinking the lake water and "retrieving" the moss and whatever other stuff he found in the lake. Apparently he was on a mission to clean up the lake, bringing back an empty Capri Sun container and some other random stuff.

He had to watch Favor a bit before he figured out how to retrieve the water dummies, but he eventually got the hang of it.

Of course, being Charlie, he really wanted to play with Favor. So every now and then he tried to steal her dummies away from her. Favor humored him, letting him tug at her dummy as she calmly came back to the shore.

After the dogs finished swimming and playing, we just enjoyed the nice day and caught up with Bonnie, Roger and Jody's mom with some snacks and a yummy dinner at a Mexican restaurant nearby.

All in all, it was a really fun day...and we all slept really well last night. Thanks for having us out, Bonnie and Roger!