Thursday, July 19, 2007

Barf-o-rama

Last Saturday we went hiking. I am a bad mom because the hike was much longer than I thought it was (9 miles), it was hot, there weren't enough streams, and Odin wasn't up for it. When we got to the big stream at the end, he went and sat down in the water like an alligator. For a dog who has hated every single bath he's gotten for the past 8 years, and who once held it for 30 hours because it was raining, that's saying a lot.
As payback, he barfed ON Stampy on the way home. And the dog bed. And the other dog bed. And the sheets in the car.
Stampy clearly was disgusted because yesterday, as I sat in here on the computer, I heard the unmistakable "reck-a reck-a" and I ran, but was too late, and he barfed all over the futon. Unlike sweet, perfect Odin, he managed to barf on the futon, in addition to the futon cover, and the carpet. A Great Dane can generate a LOT of barf.
We are planning on doing some camping this summer, if work allows, because most of my horse shows are out of the running.