If you check this photo - you truly can see all 13 pack members! Enlarge by clicking on the picture - enlarges the photo not the pack! - Don't miss Jack - the little Chihuahua mix who is the sandy coloured dog by my feet! Or the "flying" English Setter "Loopy Lucy" to the far left - being black and white she can seem to merge in with shingle!
So this is how we walk 13 dogs in one go - We lead-up, all dogs get a little excited so it's leads on and sit back down again in our courtyard! Then we "wait" and "wait" ....until all dogs are in a calm mind-set! Any other energy would be unstable energy and not the beginning of a migration walk with all dogs taking follower position. I mean could you imagine, I dare not, if we left with the dog pack leading the walk??!!!
Off we go - humans first that's be me and Simon, after about five minutes of slow paced moving forwards, a few "waits" to get the dogs to focus on us not each other and then we're into the walk. We walk for about 20 minutes on lead, a few are off but walk behind us. Then we get to a beach I have nicknamed "Russell's Cove" - it is the Jack Russell's favourite beach with cliffs which have very interesting grass and holes! Here the whole pack go off lead - a reward for having walked in follower position so well. They get to play around while us human Pack Leaders keep watch ready to put leads on if any unsuspecting passers-by happen upon our pack! - Remember I always go "leads-on" to show to other humans that the pack are under control - at CrystalDogs we lead by example!!!
Then it's back home in the same way we came out - 20 minutes migration walking, humans back in first, dogs get to rest ... then eat ..... then rest some more....
WOW This truly is a dog's life at the beach!
Once agian - HAIL CESAR - we could never have got the pack this balanced without you!
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