01.16.10

The first dog party

Tonight our small group decided to have a party at John and Stacie's to watch the Purdue and Colts' games.  We also decided we would include the dogs too (since our plans to do that for New Year's got spoiled)!  So we had much craziness with four dogs in one room!  Those in attendance (dogs) were our Maggie, the 1 year old bassett hound Harvey, the 8 month old great dane Gus, and the eight year old greyhound Patti. 

Maggie had the chance to play for an hour with Harvey before the others came and Harvey wore her out.  Harvey kept jumping up at her and following her around when she tried to walk away.  When Maggie and Harvey would jump up at each other, Harvey would just collapse because of his smaller size.  But he just kept trying! 

Then Gus (affectionately called "the horse" now) and Patti came.  Patti did her own thing like she usually does and laid down in the corner. (I didn't blame her.)  The other three played for a while.  Eventually Maggie decided it was time to lay down by herself and try to get away from the craziness.  Harvey kept trying to instigate things with Gus.  That was hilarious since little Harvey was trying to beat up on big Gus.  He did have some luck in running around the couch, especially when he changed direction.  (His size was an advantage then.)  It looked really funny because Harvey was running fast and Gus just looked like he was walking!

We tried to separate all of them for a while and then Harvey, Gus, and Maggie started playing again.  (I think Maggie got a second wind.)  One way John and Stacie kept Gus still was using a remote control car (because Harvey is scared of it) or just man-handling him :)

Throughout the whole night you could tell Harvey was tired and needed to rest, but he kept fighting it.  He would lay down for a sec and then get right back up to run around and play.  That dog has some stamina and fight in him.  He knew he was fighting a losing battle with 2 bigger dogs, but that didn't matter.  He was getting some major playtime and he wasn't going to waste a minute!

Oh, I almost forgot!  Maggie had another cat chase tonight.  (She just had another with my sister's cat at Christmas when she was hyped up on a whole carton of chocolate-covered coffee beans!)  One of the doors got opened to where one of the cats was and leave it to Maggie to find the cat!  Harvey, Maggie, and Max the cat scampered around until Max jumped up on top of the kitchen cabinets to escape what could've been disaster.  He stayed there the whole night hiding from the dogs.  Poor guy!

Before we knew it the Colts had won and it was time to leave.  It was definitely a memorable night and I think all the dogs had a great time.  They wore us adults out just watching them continually running around and playing!

Here's three of the dogs in one shot (without Patti).  I'll have to post some more pics soon!