Wendy surrounded

Comment by Gene on July 15, 2007 at 1:30pm

Wow! I am impressed. I max out at 3. I can't juggle any more leashes at once. ;-)

Comment by ursula wilby on August 9, 2007 at 4:29am

Love it Wendy! now lets see a shot of you taking them all out for a walk...:-)
great photo!
Greetings from Sweden.

Comment by Wendy Czarnecki on August 9, 2007 at 2:16pm

Thanks for the nice comments on this picture. We are very fortunate to live on 4.5 acres that are securely fenced, so the dogs get to exercise themselves off lead whenever they please. Of course their favorite activity is when a human takes them out to play ball, since they generally just hang out around the house or in the shade. Let a human come out with a supply of tennis balls and a chukit (plastic throwing device) and the whole crew comes barrelling over - and that is quite a sight! I'll post some photos of many dogs in the field on my website.

We also used to take all the dogs camping in a nearby (5-hour drive) forested area for a week or so every summer, some photos of our hikes with them are on my page, but I'll try to find some more with many dogs - we never had as many as 30 dogs along, but we always had over 20. We were far into the forest so we never had any other people to deal with. It was heaven on earth for me and the dogs. They were loose all day and hung around the local area of camp and the nightly campfire unless we were going for a hike. At night they were in the camper or a tent, let out at first light, put up when the last person up went to bed.

We haven't been able to go for the past three years - it's a ton of work getting ready and setting up, because we have to bring everything that we might possibly need, plus people food and dog food for the week - for at least 20 dogs. I hope we can return in the future, at least once more - it's my happiest time of the year - but we are enough old and disabled to make that very difficult. But I still have hopes.

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