What a weekend!!!!

***apologies in advance, but I did not bring a camera with me at all this weekend. The D90 is a bit much to lug around most places... I think I will be looking into getting a smaller one... hopefully this one won't get stolen!!!!***

So we woke up early Saturday and headed to Bay Shore for our Group Class. Once again, Muffin was AMAZING!We were working on Sit/Stays.... namely on the walking away from the dog part of a sit stay. This was the very first time that I had ever tried this with Muffin. We usually do sit/stays and down/stays with me by his side.

Anyway, I was able to walk the full length of the leash(about 6 ft) away from him and turn my back to him. I only tried for like about 1 minute each time, because we were next to the divider and there was an obnoxiously loud agility class on the other side... I'm not sure what they were doing but the dogs kept slamming into the divider and barking non-stop. I didn't want to chance waiting too long.... I think I'll be stopping by the pet store to pick up a 15 ft training leash... I have a 30 ft one... but that's probably a little tooooo big to bring with me to class....

Afterwards we played in the school yard for a while, he got to run around like a maniac!!! :-)

On Sunday, I decided to go see what my brother was up too... first we walked all the dogs down to the beach(Muffin, Chowder, and Bassie)... they got to run around the park at the beach and play for about 30 minutes...Then my brother and I decided to go biking through the woods.

He knows a nice trail that goes from Manorville to Riverhead, it was a fantastic trail! There was NO ONE on it at all, we passed a river that the dogs were able to play in, and it was a 4 hour trip!

So not only did Muffin get to run and expel a lot of energy, but I got some exercise as well! The trail was nice and flat for the most part, so I was able to bike more or less without problem...

Once we got to riverhead, we stopped at a taco place, and we split a giant burrito and chips, then we headed back to the car.

By the time I got Muffin home on Sunday, he was so tired he didn't even want to get up to get out of the car!!!! But, as they say, a good dog is a tired dog!