Since the weather has been AMAZING here (highs in the 70's) we've been trying to take advantage of it! We've been out hiking a couple of times. The first time we went on a trail we'd never been on before. It started out nice, but then turned treacherous! There was cactus everywhere!!! The worst part was the cholla cactus! It drops cactus balls on the ground and they can be hard to spot. Well poor Bentley found out them! He ran off the trail and right through some cactus on the ground. It was so sad! He was yelping and crying. One good thing is Bentley gets too excited on walks so he has to wear a harness other wise he pulls too much and chokes him self. Well since he had his harness on I basicall held him in the air while Brent pulled it out. Brent is such a good boy scout. I'm standing around going, should we use my jacket? How do we pull it out? Brent calmly goes and gets two rocks and pulls it out. So smart! Despite the fact that it was a cactus ball, with lots of needles stuck to him it all came out together for the most part. Bentley was fine, as soon as it was out he was off trotting around again. This is a picture of our treacherous trail. If you look close you can see the cactus EVERYWHERE!
And now some of us on our hike. The dogs look great in nature!
This is half of hiking with them, sniffing every little thing
Brent looks a little disorientated but Bosco looks read to go!
Look how cute they are walking side by side!! Love it, they are such good buddies!
I caught them both looking at the camera! Lucky!
It has been raining here a lot lately. So it was really green! Quite the unusual site for Phoenix. It was Beautiful! Wild flowers and green all over! I could almost immagine we were somewhere else!
We think our first hike was Bentley's fist hike ever. They both did good but pooped out after about an hour. So our second hike we paced our selves more, hike a while, stop rest for a few min, give the dogs water, etc. We managed to keep them going for 3 hours!!! It was great when we got home they were so wiped out! They just laied around the house the rest of the day! Nice and quite!!!
4 comments:
Looks like so much fun...Burt doesn't like to hike and I love it so guess what...I never get to go!
This is what I love about Virginia...not a single cactus to be found! YAY! *sigh*
I don't miss AZ at all! :) Our friends, though, that's a different story!
Oh, and P.S. I keep forgetting to tell you. It's not a huge deal, but I think it's pretty funny since we've known each other since we were kids. But, you spelled my name wrong in your link list, silly!
It's one 'l' instead of two.
It sounds like you and the dogs had so much fun! That's awesome!
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