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| The beautiful Camp Charlie. |
One of the best parts of Camp Charlie was the isolation. We saw about five dogs when we first arrived, but all were headed home. Afterwards we had the entire dog park to ourselves - how glorious!
While I cued Owen to recall a couple times at the start, I tried my best to do minimal interference with the dogs. Much of the time we put boundaries on our dogs whether it is on a leash, inside a home, or in a fenced in backyard. We need these boundaries to keep our dogs safe, but sometimes it is nice to let them be as free as possible in a controlled and supervised area.
Camp Charlie gave us the chance to do that with our dogs. Three adults supervised four dogs, but rarely did we need to interfere. We kept a steady pace walking around the park and the dogs ran ahead, behind, and beside us. At times they ranged far ahead of us, but they never went out of sight and they would eventually make their way back to us.
The three humans walked along talking about our dogs, past and present, and we had a wonderful, peaceful walk. I enjoyed seeing Owen engage Murphy repeatedly for play, although sweet Murphy had a hard time keeping up on those short legs!
Murphy is a cancer survivor though, and the fact that he is here to enjoy Camp Charlie is a blessing in itself! I am so glad I got to meet this sweet boy and his wonderful, devoted Mom!
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| The fur is still growing back from his chemo. |
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| Owen had so much fun he can't contain his smile! |
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