Dog run

John finally finished the dog run this past Friday. I’ve only been waiting for it for like EVER! We can now fence up the dogs in just a portion of the yard. I am beyond ecstatic about this because since the dogs have had free run of the entire backyard for so long, it looks absolutely ATROCIOUS! There’s holes everywhere, dead grass where they chase each other around the boat and the shed and the paths they use to run back and forth from one side of the house to the other. It is BAD. So now, they have their own little area of the yard they can do whatever they want in (as long as that does NOT include digging up the phone/cable wires or eating the drain pipes off the side of the house) and I can finally start sprucing up the back yard so that I can actually ENJOY it. Today was the first day for them to spend the entire day in their new little dog run. I’m quite curious to see what I find when I get home. We made the fence a picket type fence, 4 ½ feet tall. So they can see the rest of the yard through the fence and are probably wondering why on earth they can’t get to it when they used to have a huge yard to run in and now they only have about a ¼ of it. The day John finished it, he put the dogs in there for just a bit to “test” them. What did Major do? Laid down right at the gate and shoved his nose through the 3” spacing between pickets and stretched his feet out from under the gate. It was a funny sight. Cocoa, of course, just sat there with a blank stare as though she was thoroughly confused about what was going on with this new fence. At least they figured out where the new water spigot was.

I just have all these crazy scenarios running through my head about what I will find with I get home. Hopefully the one that plays out is the one where the dogs were perfect angels all day and only played with their toys and did not eat anything they shouldn’t and they’re both still in the dog run. (Major is quite the jumper, you know) Only an hour left until I find out!