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This is the last time I take Truffle to the river until the rainy season makes it inhospitable for people to sleep and shit in the riverbed. This is the third time I have had to wash suspiciously nasty feces out of her ruff, and I'm not going to put myself in the position again. This time it was so bad that when I had washed her and washed her in the river prior to going home -- and even used sand to scrub -- and stopped at the pet store and used their cleanup stuff on her, I still had to drive home with the windows down and give her a thorough bath when we got home. Ick.
It's really hard to find good summer places for offleash dog play around here. Most places are infested with foxtail and ticks (though both are better later in the summer when the grasses all fall over), and the beaches are infested with tourists. I had hoped to take up the slack with the river, but clearly this is not an option.
It's really hard to find good summer places for offleash dog play around here. Most places are infested with foxtail and ticks (though both are better later in the summer when the grasses all fall over), and the beaches are infested with tourists. I had hoped to take up the slack with the river, but clearly this is not an option.